Providers of EMS equipment for consumer use may tell you that the process will:

§ Reduce breast size

§ Remove wrinkles

§ Do face lifts

§ Reduce bellies

§ Remove cellulite

There is no clinical evidence or science that proves such claims, but I will endeavor to briefly explain how this process works according to the providers.

The premise is that using EMS, the brain sends a nerve impulse to the “motor point” of the muscle you desire to change.   This signal is a message to the muscle to expand and contract.

Electrodes are placed on specific motor points of the   muscle group(s) to be exercised.   When the electrical stimulation is applied through the electrodes using a mild current the muscle will expand and contract.   The theory is that this makes it possible to duplicate regular exercise without the effort using conventional means.

During  conventional exercise, your brain is sending messages down the spinal cord through the nerves with the muscles you are using, causing them to relax and contract.   Your brain is controlling the muscle using what is called voluntary muscle action.

EMS uses the outside electrical source to stimulate the nerves and send signals to your muscle to expand and contract.   It send an electrical current through adhesive electrodes creating the expansion and contraction.     This would be considered involuntary muscle action.

It is believed by some that EMS stimulates large nerve axons, or long outgrowths of a nerve cell body.   Some of these cannot be stimulated voluntarily so the logic is that EMS might allow for increased development of tissue by enlarging it without multiplying cells.