High-Intensity Electromagnetic Therapy (HIEMT)
High-Intensity Electromagnetic Therapy (HIEMT) is one of the most powerful tools we use to rebuild stability at the deepest level of recovery. By generating thousands of supramaximal muscle contractions in a single session, HIEMT rapidly activates the deep stabilisers of the spine and pelvisâmuscles that are difficult, if not impossible, to train voluntarily. This makes it invaluable for patients recovering from disc injuries, where true stability is often the missing link preventing lasting success.
While originally developed for physiotherapy, HIEMT was quickly adopted in aesthetics for muscle toning. At DISC, we have reâpurposed and advanced the technology for specialist spinal care. We use it to retrain dysfunctional activation patterns, prevent or reverse muscle atrophy, and accelerate rehabilitation. Patients with chronic low back weakness, core instability, hip dysfunction, or even TMJ imbalance benefit from its ability to restore neuromuscular control. HIEMT provides a safe, nonâinvasive solution to retrain and futureâproof the body.
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.
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.
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 an ineffective ability to coordinate the core muscles the weakness lies in the pelvic floor.
By using our HIEMT 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.
Possible contraindications to treatment include the following
Metal or electronic implants in the treatment area
Recent surgical procedures in the following areas Abdominal, Spinal or Pelvis/hips
Copper intrauterine device