Özet:

Electromyostimulation (EMS), being applied for rehabilitation and treatment, attrached to the trainers, athletes and sport scientiests as a popular training method. EMS can be defined as electrical currents are applied to the muscle tissue or motor points. The muscles are activated in different ways during voluntary and electrically evoked contractions. Past studies showed that EMS training increases muscular strength less time is required for muscle hypertrophy and also strength development without a statistically significant hypertrophy is the most important evidence of neural adaptations. Therefore, EMS training brings to mind the possibility of an increase in magnitude of neural output from spinal and supraspinal centers to active muscles, spinal plasticity, amount of activated motor units and synchronisation. In addition, unilateral EMS training increases in contralateral homologous muscle strength that shows EMS training influences in supraspinal centers and different cortical regions. The purpose of this review was to investigate of neural adaptation related to EMS training and effects of EMS training for sedentary people and athletes in their sport performances.

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