This consumer education presentation introduces practical applications of electrical stimulation (ES) for the management of disabilities encountered in every-day clinical settings. The text is written with the intent of helping patients, families and clinicians who are not familiar with ES, insurance carriers and other third party payers and long-term care planners to understand how ES can be effectively incorporated into clinical and home treatment protocols. The term “functional electrical stimulation” implies that the user will have an improvement in daily function as a result of ES.
Please consult with your medical caregivers to consider candidacy for each potential application of ES as well as the treatment protocols for clinical and home implementation.
Please refer to the General Considerations in the Application of Electrical Stimulation before going to the diagnostic categories of interest. At the end of each section of text you will find selected reference lists for further review.
Articles from IFESS about Electrical Stimulation
- General Considerations in the Clinical Application of Electrical Stimulation
- Orthopaedic Disability
- Muscle Weakness Or Paralysis With Compromise Of Peripheral Nerve
- Idiopathic scoliosis (idiopathic spine deformity)
- Stroke And Brain Injury
- Spinal Cord Injury
- Cerebral Palsy
- Multiple Sclerosis
- Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
- Management of Bladder and Bowel Incontinence
- Muscular Dystrophy
- Cardiac Assistance From Skeletal Muscle: Electrical Stimulation In The Management Of Heart Failure
- Chronic, Intractable Pain