When you choose Compex, the leading brand in electrotherapy, you can be sure to benefit from:

• The effectiveness of our devices. Our products are developed with the greatest of care and use all the latest technological innovations. Of course, you can also be assured that our products are produced according to all currently applicable safety standards.
• With honesty and integrity. It is also a leader's responsibility to guarantee that its promises are kept. Before we put forward the benefits of using our device, the applications are tested at length, put through their paces by health professionals and are the subject of scientific studies.
• Personalised support and guidance. To help you get the most from our devices, Compex electrotherapy pays particular attention to drafting extremely detailed user manuals. Compex will give full attention to your telephone calls or e-mails to answer your questions. Compex has also set up high-quality Internet sites to help you get started with your device.

Electrical muscle stimulation (EMS) is not a doping technique.

It is a perfectly safe and uniquely complementary technique of voluntary training. This technique is capable of inducing muscular stability (or facilitating recovery) resulting from a high intensity muscular activity, that is very different from a purely passive technique that does not require the serious involvement or the motivation of the athlete.

No national or international sports body or federation, including the International Olympics Committee, assimilates the use of electrostimulation to a doping practice or bans the use of this technique.

There are many reasons for this position:

NO HARMFUL EFFECT ON HEALTH

No harmful effect on health whether in the short, medium or long term has ever been recorded ; even in subjects using this technique daily for many years, as is sometimes necessary for some medical situations.

THE EFFECT IS NATURAL

The electricity possesses no property which would enable the slightest artificial development of the neuro-muscular system. The effect is natural.

THE MUSCLE CONTRACTIONS ARE COMPARABLE TO THOSE OF VOLUNTARY TRAINING

The muscular gains generated by electrostimulation are only the consequence of the work (= the contractions) done by the muscle, in response to the stimulation of its motor nerve. To be effective, the muscle contractions that are electrically induced must necessarily be powerful, Gilles Cometti of the Performance Expertise Center of the University of Dijon, considered that minimum tension at least equal to 60% of maximum strength was required in trained athletes, in order to increase strength, which requires a certain amount of self-sacrifice, comparable to what is required in numerous sessions of voluntary training.

MUSCULAR WISDOM : A MUSCLE USED EXCESSIVELY BY ELECTROSTIMULATION BECOMES EXHAUSTED AND ENDS UP NO LONGER CONTRACTING

There is a saturation phenomenon which the Anglo-Saxons call ‘muscle wisdom’ whose effect is that a muscle used excessively (too long or too often) by electrostimulation becomes exhausted and ends up no longer contracting in response to stimulation. This therefore excludes the use of long term exposures which are completely ineffective.

COMPLEMENTARY AND NON-SUBSTITUTIVE TECHNIQUE OF VOLUNTARY TRAINING

Electrostimulation is a complementary and non-substitutive technique of voluntary training. In fact, sports performance is the sum of numerous qualities: cardiovascular, technical… and muscular, the sole component on which electrostimulation is effective. The story of the athlete who has improved his performance after replacing his voluntary training sessions with electrostimulation sessions is nothing more than a crazy myth.

RECOVERY PROGRAMS ARE NOT LIKELY TO IMPROVE MUSCULAR PERFORMANCE

Another indication of neuro-muscular electrostimulation is its use to encourage recovery after a workout. This is achieved using specific active recovery programs which do not require the same self-sacrifice constraints as "muscle building" type programs. The effects are vascular (increase in blood flow), pain relief (release of endorphins) and decontracting and are achieved using a low muscular activity which is not likely to improve muscular performance, even if the sessions are repeated in excess.

Mi-Technology is unique to Compex EMS muscle stimulators. This technology takes account of the specificities of each of your muscles and thus offers stimulation adapted to their characteristics.

• It’s simple, since the data is transmitted to the stimulator automatically!
• It’s personalised, as each of our muscles is unique!
• Your training will be automatically personalised and so perfectly adapted to your physiology.

MI-SENSOR

Thanks to the mi-SENSOR miniature sensor a new world of precision and effectiveness is opened up in your workout sessions!

Mi-SENSOR is a small sensor that connects the stimulator to the electrodes. It is the key to measuring some physiological characteristics of the muscle.

MI-SCAN

Just before starting a work session using the MI-SCAN function, the MI-SENSOR senses the selected muscle group and automatically adjusts the stimulator settings to the excitability of this area of the body, depending on your own physiology. It is a truly personalised measurement. MI-SCAN adapts the electrostimulation session to the physiology of each user.

MI-ACTION

With the MI-ACTION function, the MI-SENSOR optimises the effectiveness of your session by letting you combine voluntary contractions and electrostimulated contractions at your own pace. You are truly in control of your training.

MI-ACTION is a work mode in which a voluntary muscular contraction is automatically accompanied by a contraction caused by electrostimulation.

The contraction caused by electrostimulation is therefore perfectly controlled, the workout session thus becomes more comfortable, increased and more complete.

MI-TENS

With the mi-TENS function, the MI-SENSOR makes it easy to adjust the stimulation intensities to be used for pain management programmes. The adjustment takes place instantly and automatically, simplifying the procedure for the user and guaranteeing optimal results.

The MI-TENS function aims to identify and use the optimal stimulation intensity throughout the TENS programme (analgesic).

On the basis of the measurements taken regularly during the session, the device permanently and automatically readjusts the stimulation intensity to avoid any onset of muscular contraction, which is strongly counter-indicated for programmes of this type.

MI-RANGE

With the MI-RANGE function, the MI-SENSOR indicates the optimum stimulation intensity adjustment range (minimum and maximum) for lower frequency programmes such as Recovery or Massage.

Using MI-RANGE, you no longer need to ask yourself whether the intensity you are using is too high or too low: this function tells you, thus optimising the efficiency of your treatment or training.

You can consult our instructions for use to find our recommendations for use.