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Does electrical stimulation hurt or help your muscles?
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TENS?: Are you referring to tens or transcutaneous electrical stimulation? Tens help for alleviating pain on your muscles. However there are limitations and precautions to it as well.
Answered 1/13/2013
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It can do both: It can stimulate a damaged muscle to make it work or it can over stimulate a musscle and damage it.
Answered 4/14/2013
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