Dr. Jeffrey Gladden uses direct-current electrodes to scan the body and find where the nervous system is guarding muscles after injury. The same activation can boost motor-unit recruitment and deliver strength gains without heavy weights, like a patient recovering from lumbar spine injury who got leg strength through electrode settings instead of heavy deadlifts.
So, what we're doing and what we're probably best known for is that neuromuscular reeducation type work where, for example, we can take one of our electrodes using the effects of direct current to scan around on the body and find where the nervous system is guarding or inhibiting muscles where there's various guarding and protective compensatory patterns that happen in response to injury or bad habits. So, we're doing that and that is probably what we're best known for, those rehabilitation applications. And then, because we're talking about neuromuscular activation, there's things we can do also with the autonomic nervous system, also that we can do in terms of enhancing motor unit recruitment to get some of the benefits of resistance training without having to lift as much weight. So, if we have someone who say is recovering from a lumbar spine injury and they want to load their legs but they don't want to deadlift or squat heavy, there's a way to— you can put electrodes on and dial up certain settings and get a motor unit recruitment as if you were lifting very heavy weights on the lower body, for example.
