Electrical Muscle Stimulation

Views Updated: Dec 15, 2025

Key Facts

Abbreviation
EMS
Pronunciation
/ɪˈlɛktrɪkəl ˈməsəl ˌstɪmjəˈleɪʃən/
Category
Medical
Related Field
Physiology

Examples in Context

  1. Functional electrical stimulation ( FES ) refers to the muscle contraction by electrical stimulation, which can compensate for the loss of body function for nerve injury.
  2. By adjusting the parameters of electrical stimulation to observe the response of different pinnae muscle for it, and measure the threshold value of pinnae muscles to electrical stimulation. Using the value as references for FES systems to stimulate paralyzed pinnae muscles. 4.

Other meanings of EMS