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Does electrical muscle stimulation have some bad effects for your heart?
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Usually no: Normal therapeutic electrical stimulation of the muscles of the body will stimulate the skeletal muscles only. The heart will be unaffected. A tens unit or similar device will not affect the heart. However, it is possible under extra-ordinary situations to effect the heart with electrical stimulation. People with pacemakers can be affected. Recently, a report that a taser device could affect it.
Answered 4/8/2015
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