HIFEM (High-Intensity Focused Electro Magnetic)
Book NowThis clinic has a long history of developing cutting edge technology into fully fledged treatment protocols. Our recent HiFEM (High-Intensity Focused Electro Magnetic) technology trial is no different.
Borne out of desire to be able to unpin patients progress with better core stability, HiFEM offers up to 20,000 muscle contractions per half hour session.
This technology simply mimics the action potential of nerves that cause muscle contractions, in a thoroughness and intensity that you could not physically perform through voluntary exercise.
By engaging the muscles in such a way, we aim to re-educate muscle contraction patterns, improve the range of motion, increase local circulation, prevent, or treat disuse atrophy, relax muscle spasms.
Whilst initially devised for physiotherapy use it has since been taken up by aesthetic clinics aiming to sculpt body shapes by engaging muscles, research is therefore more numerous for its slimming benefits than its ability to provide pain relief or functional strength gains.
Patients prone to sensitive inflamed muscle tissue will especially need to proceed with caution. Excitement of inflamed tissue could lead to a short-term increase in pain locally, therefore use of this technology directly on areas of concern (e.g., calf pain in sciatica) will be carefully timed to attempt to mitigate this set of circumstances from occurring.
The early phases of our care, focused on the abdominal muscles as the most obvious target for improved core, however ongoing clinical experience, and active research we have determined that in many of the cases where there is in ineffective ability to coordinate the core muscles the weakness lies in the pelvic floor.
Possible contraindications to treatment include the following:
By using our HiFEM technology we have found vast improvements in conditions ranging from the obvious low back complaints to far reaching cervical radiculopathies and even jaw pain. The working theory of the clinic involves a layering of dysfunction in complex cases where the pain felt represents a crack in the roof however the underlying dysfunction and therefore solution to resolving the case is from the basement/foundation as in the form of the pelvic floor.
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