Application of Muscle/Nerve Stimulation in Health and Disease
Publication year: 2008
ISBN: 978-1-4020-8233-7
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The first evidence that electrical changes can cause muscles to contract was p- vided by Galvani (1791). Thus, elect- cal activity graduated from a simple mechanism that is used to elicit muscle c- traction, to a system that could induce permanent changes in muscles and modify most of its characteristic properties.
Subject: Medicine, Fitness, health, muscle, physiotherapy, rehabilitation, spinal cord, training, rehabilitation psychology
