Patient Information
eToims®, the acronym for the Non-Invasive Electrical Twitch Obtaining Intramuscular Stimulation System, a unique, proprietary therapy for the millions of individuals worldwide with acute and chronic nerve-related muscle pain, including those healthy individuals interested in a new lifestyle for enhancing and preserving their physical health. The eToims® Technique is used by world-famous athletes & weekend warriors, CEOs (including a Fortune 500 company CEO), highly successful entrepreneurs, university professors, specialist physicians, working professionals in law and government, and many others as an important part of their therapeutic and physical training regimen. This results in restoring, reviving, and rejuvenating muscle mobility and overall health, allowing for greater range of motion, physical movement, and relief from pain caused by tight muscles. The eToims® Technique and ET127 portable Evoked Response Stimulator are the patented inventions of Jennifer Chu, M.D., Emeritus Associate Professor in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at the University of Pennsylvania Medical School.
The eToims® Technique seeks to locate tight and damaged nerve-muscle meeting areas which cause back pain, fibromyalgia, neck pain, shoulder pain, and other common forms of neuromuscular dysfunction. The eToims® Technique is currently available at the Soft Tissue Comfort Center(STCC)® located in Philadelphia's historic Main Line community, with daily, weekly, bi-weekly, and customized sessions available. eToims® is now available in the European Union and Canada and prospective patients should contact their physiotherapist or physician about offering eToims® Technique treatment session or purchase a personal-use device for at-home individual therapy.
Due to its ability to stimulate the deep trigger points, The eToims® Technique is able to produce twitch induced focal exercise of the muscles closest to the bone and joints to effectively stretch the muscles in spasm at problematic trigger points. This stretch exercise instantaneously releases the vice-like clamping effect that short and tight muscles due to spasm had on the intramuscular blood vessels and nerves. Acute injuries causing reversible partial nerve injuries such as neurapraxia can thus be immediately cured. Chronic repetitive or other injuries resulting in permanent nerve damage can be facilitated to heal due to improved circulation leading to gradual nerve regeneration. The eToims® Technique through its ability to exercise individual muscles to provide neuromuscular reeducation produces pain relief with improvement of range of motion leading to increase in strength, balance and coordination.
The eToims® Technique is thus a noninvasive, nonpharmaceutical pain management program which can be used long-term with few contraindications and rare side effects.
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eToims® Price List
1. Basic eToims® device with probe holder: US$9300. Has limited energy output for personal or clinical use (videos illustrate the Operator's Manual and Self Treatment eToims®). This device can be used by the clinician who can apply eToims® treatment to the patient and can also be used as a personal device for self treatment by patients or athletes who are under the care or supervision of a clinician such as a doctor or physiotherapist.
2. Advanced eToims® device with probe holder: US$16,300. This device is available only to specialists who want outstanding results in treating all types of myofascial pain and/or discomfort. Purchase of 3 or more devices/client qualifies for 3 days of supervised on-site clinical training. Otherwise training is provided in Ardmore, PA, USA, located just outside of Philadelphia (videos illustrate the Operator's Manual, Clinician eToims® and Self Treatment eToims®).
3. Electrodes: US $210/unit. One unit consists of (1) 30 pairs base plug electrodes, (2) 30 pairs of top pad electrodes and (3) two pairs of latex free elastic straps. Minimum order is 6 units (180 pairs) of electrodes. Electrodes are proprietary for single use only and are clinical laboratory certified for biocompatibiilty and are non-allergenic.
