CompexEdu wrote:
Hello Thomas, let me try to help here. TENS or (Transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation) is simply a disruption of the sensory nerves nothing more. Example- when you hit your funny bone you rub the area fast to try and stop the sting, tens is the same thing. Its blocking pain back to the brain by disrupting your sensory nerves. Compex offers a TENS only device for $69 buck and a TENS program in our inline range. NMES (Neuromuscular Electrical Stimulation) actually can activate and recruit your ST fibers (Endurance program), FT type 2a (Resistance program) and 2b fibers (strength and explosive strength programs). The average human can only recruit and isolate about 20-30% of a muscle group, with Compex we can select the fibers you want to recruit and hit them right away to 100% recruitment. Long story short, when using the recovery program use Training Recovery (formerly labeled active recovery) you will clear lactic acid in 7 minutes (clinically proven under 7 minutes) however you MUST see muscle twitches (shaking of the muscle. This program starts at 8hrz and ends a 1 hrz, the reason you clear the lactic acid so fast is because you are at 8 hrz which is right below a tetanic contraction which starts at 10hrz. The massage program will not clear lactic acid its simply a light blood flow program to relax a muscle group.
Used correctly I assure you Compex will help you get stronger, perform better, and recover faster. Message me with any questions I would love to help you
Right a TENS unit is just a low powered Estim device that typically won't deliver enough current to recruit motor units, but depending on the power of the unit and the location of the nerves relative to the electrodes sometimes you can recruit muscles with one.
I'm interested in how you can select which muscle fibers to recruit with the Compex?
I agree you're almost certainly going to be recruiting more Type IIs than Type I (and 2a's than 2b's) at any given force level given the nature of estim recruitment versus your nervous system's recruitment of muscle and if your frequency is adequate you'll be getting 100% of whatever force generating ability the recruited muscles fibers have, but I don't understand how you can selectively recruit different fiber types?