Application of muscle/nerve stimulation in health and disease
- Author
- Gerta Vrbová, Olga Hudlicka, Kristin Schaefer Centofanti
- Publication Year
- 2008
- Publisher
- Springer
- Language
- English
- Document Type
- Book
- Faculty / Subject Heading
- Medical Science
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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.
Keywords: Medicine / Fitness / Health / Muscle / Physiotherapy / Rehabilitation / Spinal cord / Training / Rehabilitation psychology
