Rehabilitation of muscle function. Part 2.
This article describes the utilisation of a physiologically based research technique developed to facilitate the nursing care of patients with skeletal muscle wasting. The technique, which involved electrotherapeutic stimulation to the first dorsal interosseous muscle of a group of arthritic patients, demonstrates that patterned neuromuscular stimulation of skeletal muscle can have enormously beneficial effects in preserving and regenerating skeletal muscle. The reasons for the muscle wasting, and the subsequent vicious spiral of immobility, were reviewed in Part 1 (1), and both articles build on the concepts described in a previous paper published in Nursing Standard (2).
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Tallis
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Smith
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D004599:Electric Stimulation Therapy; D006801:Humans; D009132:Muscles / Q000502:physiology / Q000503:physiopathology*; D012046:Rehabilitation