Breve explicacion del BMS
Biomechanical Muscle Stimulation (BMS®) is a method of muscular regeneration and general health maintenance, which utilizes a rhythmic neuromuscular stimulation. It is being used with great success in sports training, muscle rehabilitation and in helping to correct cases of restricted body mobility, as a result of CNS malfunctions.
BMS® uses neither electrotherapy nor chemical substances. Rather it employs mechanical vibration, at specific frequencies and amplitudes, applied to a stretched or tightened muscle. The vibration, created by special machines, stimulates the muscle and causes a longitudinal vibration of the muscle,causing smooth muscle growth by starting muscular memory.
BMS® can be used to help regain joint mobility in various types of restrictions of movement including:
· degenerative (joints, discs, tendons)
· post injury (sport accidents, work and car accidents)
· muscle weakness
· muscle shortness
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Ahora yo se que el BMS es para rehabilitacion, pero la verdad es que hay una gran relacion en lo que es rehabilitacion con el tema memoria muscular. Te explicare porque, ya que como sabras, en la rehabilitacion lo que se busca es la MEMORIA-MUSCULAR. Ya sea si te accidentas, o dejas de entrenar, por medio de vibraciones y contracciones musculares OCACCIONADAS por el CNS(Central Nervious System) es por la cual se aumenta la masa muscular al regresar al gimnasio despues de una lesion o por olgazaneria.
Hay corporaciones que se basan en el BMS para vender maquinas terapeuticas que "imitan" el sistema nervioso en individuos lecionados ya que estos NO pueden ganar esa memoria muscular hasta que su CNS trabaje de nuevo. El sistema BMS te ayuda en esto, por medio de las vibraciones que induce.
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COMO FUNCIONA ESTO:
Frequencies Used
The rising vibratode maximizes tension and stretching. In this phase, the muscle presses the blood out of the capillaries to the veins. Then the vibratode falls; the muscle relaxes; and the capillaries enlarge and are refilled with blood.
The rising and falling of the vibratode takes part in a sine-rhythm with a frequency between 20 and 30 Hz. Optimal blood-pumping effect is reached with a frequency of 20-23 Hz.
With frequencies higher than 25 Hz., the blood pump effect decreases (similar to a ventricle fibrillation) and the influence on the mechano-receptors would increase. The mechano-receptors and the CNS are most effectively influenced by a frequency of 28-30 Hz.
In cases where blood pumping is desired, (for example, muscle shortness) the 20-23 frequency is used. To influence the CNS (for example the "distraction stimulus" for pain alleviation) 28-30 Hz. is used. And in sessions where both influences are desired, 24-27 Hz. can be utilized.
With BMS®, muscles can be activated to the level of the activity tremor for a longer time than they can with traditional methods which rely on will power and personal effort.
In the BMS theory, change in a muscle length activates the muscle and its capillaries, and this raises its blood pump function. This also influences the muscles' mechano-receptors, and consequently, the CNS - Central Nervous System.
BMS effects:
a) A better blood circulation
b) A better coordination of the central and peripheral nervous systems.
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Entiendo que este articulo ultimo no explica mucho hacerca de la memoria muscular, pero lo decidi incluir para que entiendas como trabajan las maquinas....
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AQUI HAY UNA MEJOR EXPLICACCION:
BIOMECHANICAL STIMULATION AND ITS APPLICATION IN PHYSIOTHERAPY
BMS means a transfer of mechanical vibrations with a set frequency and amplitude on the neuromuscular system. The idea is based on a mechanical imitation of the physiological tremor, an intense stimulation from the outside on tensed muscles in the form of a sinus curve, which leads to a longitudinal vibration of the muscle fibers as experienced with a maximal workout. The influence is applied lengthwise on the muscle fibers in the direction of the normal muscle contraction. This creates an intense stimulus of the mechano receptors in the muscle fibers, which then leads in a direct way to the Central Nervous System (CNS). The vibration frequency usually ranges 18-30 Hz, numbers we most often find with the natural vibration of the muscle fibers (the physiological or activity tremor). In every living body, muscles vibrate constantly with different frequencies. Movement produces, in the tendons, vibrations with a wide band of frequencies, which can be shown even when the body seems motionless. The amplitude and the frequency varies by changing the length of the tendomuscular system (contraction). By concentrating on the body's own vibration parameters, BMS positively effects the muscle blood circulation system, the lymphatic system and the coordination of the peripheral and central nervous system leading to an increase in muscle-memory
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Como vez en terapia se basa en el sistema nervioso, y para alcanzar tal memoria muscular se necesita trabajar el sistema nervioso.
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CREDITOS:
The following was a translation of a presentation given at the annum conference of the German Association of Physiotherapy Munich, October 1997 annual meeting Published in the 6/97 edition of the journal "Therapie + Praxis". The author Mrs. Marianne Walter (physiotherapist) has trained the first American BMS-Specialist The contact resulting in an official invitation to this conference was made during a medical exposition where Mrs. Walter demonstrated as a representant of Optimal Life GmbH BMS application in presence of the president of the German Association of Physiotherapy.
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This article published in October 1997 in the official magazine of the Bethesda Hospital in Duisburg, Germany. After an MS patient, a Doctor of Law, bought the equipment from Optimal Life and donated it to the hospital, the therapists have been trained by a Optimal Life Certified BMS Trainer ( BMS is used here for RNS)
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