What is Electronic Muscle Stimulation (Stim) and Should I be Using It?

The good ol' Stim & Ice If you are an athlete and have had some kind of muscle stain or pull then you have probably used stim & ice.  I was first introduce to stim & ice when I was playing college football.  I showed up on campus after having this nagging injury in High School that wouldn't go away.   The trainers put me on the table, slapped on some of these pads (like the ones in the picture below), connected the cords to this big machine and turned it on. My muscles started to fire in a rhythmic pattern without my control and I wasn't exactly sure if this was going to help or not.  To my surprise this nagging injury, that bothered me my entire senior year of high school, was gone after a week of stim & ice.   As my.
The good ol' Stim & Ice If you are an athlete and have had some kind of muscle stain or pull then you have probably used stim

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