Are shock treatments harmful to your body?

Are shock treatments harmful to your body? I have had physical therapies that requires electric shocks. And also, I have heard of products such as slendertone, which is a belt that shocks your waist when you wear it. It is suppose to tone your waist or something like that. But my question is could these electric shocks be harmful to our body, or organs if the shocking is given to a long period of time? can they cause cancer? Thanks

You are using an incorrect term in using shock treatments. A physical therapist will use a modality called electrical stimulation. You are not receiving shocks but rather a controlled delivery of electrical stimulation into the soft tissues of the body. These electrical impulses are harmless to the body unless you have a pacemaker or some other electrical device implanted in your body. There are other cases where you would not use electrical stimulation (pregnancy, etc) but in absence of those things you will not have any negative effects otherwise they would not be used by physical therapists.

Yes, they can harm your body over a long period of time. However, if you wear the belt intermittently, then you should be OK. Take caution not to wear anywhere near your heart, as that is dangerous no matter what. As for cancer, it is probably an unlikely thing to get from electricity.

therapeutic shock treatments usually dont harm the body. my friend has a nervous system disorder that gives him chronic pain. to get relief from this, he uses a device called a "tens unit" with electrodes he attaches to his affected limbs, the unit gives him mild shocks that just feel like twitching and helps him more than tramadol or hydrocodone ever did. the slendertone belt makes your ab muscles contract & release, just like when u do sit-ups, the voltage used is not at a harmful level. electrotherapy is not known 2 cause cancer.

It, in most cases, should not be harmful to the body. Our body naturally produces electrical impulses and TENS and NMES are types of modalities that harness our body's natural process of muscular function and neruological perception.

It is a very low voltage that actually crosses the cellular membrane (similar to what occurs naturally in our body) and does not cause pysiological damage.

The only dangers associated with NMES or TENS are if you have a demand type pacemaker or automatic internal defibrilator. You also should not use them over the eyes, carotid artery or mucos membranes.

It is not known to cause cancer...however putting the unit directly over an active tumor may cause is to spread due to increase blood flow (although this has never been proven).

electric shock of what amps /voltage ,this helps in sick /old people with mild current and not any voltage.
Electric pulse is Good for regulating - activating-toning the mussel or exercising the same part for blood circulation. the very act using current is to keep the person/ patient healthy If used in excess it could lead to loosing control of you mussels and have very bad effects on the body.

The physical risks of ECT are similar to those of brief general anaesthesia; many psychiatrists say there are no absolute contraindications to its use.

It is the effects of ECT on memory that give rise to much of the controversy and concern surrounding its use. In particular there is controversy about the long-term, rather than the acute, effects of ECT.

The acute effects of ECT include amnesia, both retrograde (for events occurring before the treatment) and anterograde (for events occurring after the treatment). Patients may also experience confusion and disorientation (and more rarely, delirium) immediately after ECT. Memory loss and confusion are more pronounced with bilateral electrode placement rather than unilateral, with sine-wave rather than brief-pulse currents, and are cumulative across a course of treatment. The retrograde amnesia is most marked for events occurring in the weeks or months before treatment, although some people may lose memories from years ago. Anterograde memory loss is usually limited to the time of treatment itself or shortly afterwards. In the weeks and months following ECT these memory problems gradually improve, but some people have persistent losses, especially with bilateral ECT.

Not everyone who has ECT experiences lasting memory loss. One review of the literature found that between 29 per cent and 55 per cent (depending on the study) of people who had undergone ECT reported persistent memory loss.And the extent of persistent memory loss varies greatly between individuals. Jonathan Cott, at one extreme, lost 15 years of his memory.

Whilst most psychiatrists now are prepared to admit that people who have bilateral ECT may be left with persistent retrograde memory loss, the question of other kinds of long-term cognitive impairment is more controversial. Some psychiatrists say that it does not occur, basing this on the fact that patient's scores on tests of cognitive function tend to return to pre-ECT levels by about six months after ECT. However, in a recent large study Harold Sackeim and colleagues found that ECT "routine[ly]" causes "adverse cognitive effects," including cognitive dysfunction and memory loss, that "can persist for an extended period."Formal neuropsychological testing has documented permanent neuropsychological deficits in ECT patients, including an IQ loss of more than 30 points in one.

But i would like toa ssure u that it doesnot cause disease like cancer...