{"title":"Microcurrents — MicroLab in Bascharage","seoTitle":"Microcurrents — MicroLab in Bascharage | Physiotherapy PES Luxembourg","metaDescription":"MicroLab microcurrents for tissue and scar comfort in physiotherapy at Pôle Équilibre & Santé Bascharage. Informations et rendez-vous au Pôle Équilibre & S","content":"**MicroLab microcurrents (LED / [Matim Performance](https://www.matim-performance.fr/)) are of subsensory intensity: as a rule, you feel neither a contraction nor tingling. At Pôle Equilibre & Santé, in Bascharage, they provide **gentle care** for tissue comfort, sensitive scars and areas too irritable for a firm massage or classic TENS.**\n\n## Different from TENS and electrostimulation\n\nUnlike [TENS](/bascharage/equipement/electrotherapie), microcurrents do not aim to cover pain with tingling, nor to make a muscle contract. The device offers a manual mode (conductive gloves during a massage), an electrode mode, and a combined mode. The absence of sensation is normal; it is the sign of a very fine intensity, well tolerated.\n\n## Indications (adjunct only)\n\n- musculoskeletal pain when TENS is poorly tolerated, case by case;\n- post-operative scars and adhesions, when the assessment allows it;\n- areas too sensitive for a firm massage;\n- recovery after effort, as an adjunct, to favour tissue comfort;\n- scar accompaniment in a validated medical context, in link with the care team.\n\nThe MicroLab integrates **usefully** into a session that also combines exercise, drainage or manual work, according to your goals. Any use in an oncological, lymphatic or scar context respects the device contraindications and the patient’s medical framework.\n\n## Evidence: research and clinical use\n\nMicrocurrents are the subject of research, notably on musculoskeletal pain. A systematic review (PMID 34589695) reports interesting results for certain pains, with a literature still developing. In the clinic, we choose them for their **gentleness** and good tolerance, alongside active and manual techniques. They enrich care alongside [shock waves](/bascharage/equipement/onde-de-choc) when those are indicated.\n\n## How it goes\n\nGloves, electrodes or both. With the gloves, you mainly feel the massage. With the electrodes, you stay lying down **ten to twenty minutes** according to the surface. No contraction in the great majority of cases. Minimal warmth or tingling: we adjust.\n\nThe technique sits within the session. Frequency: often **once or twice a week** while the area is irritable, then we space it when the exercises and drainage suffice. We reassess regularly to confirm the benefit felt.\n\n## Preparation\n\nClean skin, without cream, oil or greasy make-up. Remove jewellery from the area. Mention a pacemaker, a defibrillator, pregnancy (especially over the abdomen) or an infected wound. You do not need to be fasting. Clothing that uncovers the region.\n\n## After the session\n\nDriving, work and light activity are possible. In general **no delayed muscle soreness**. Redness under an electrode fades quickly. Unusual pain is not the expected effect.\n\n## Contraindications\n\nA pacemaker or an incompatible electronic implant, pregnancy over the abdomen, a local infection, acute thrombosis of the area, a malignant tumour on the site without a validated supportive-care framework. After breast cancer: comfort and the scar only, decision with the care team.\n\n## Frequently asked questions\n\n\nIs it painful?
\n\nNo. No contraction, no tingling. The session is often experienced as a calm time. If you feel nothing, that is normal.\n\n \n\n\nHow long does the current last?
\n\nOften ten to twenty minutes, integrated into the session. This is not the heart of the appointment.\n\n \n\n\nCan it be used after breast cancer?
\n\nYes, within a validated medical framework, for comfort or the scar — in link with your care team. The decision is taken together.\n\n \n\n\nShould I remove cream and jewellery?
\n\nYes on the treated area. Clean skin, metals removed. A greasy film prevents regular contact.\n\n \n\n\nCan I follow with sport or work?
\n\nYes. No instruction to stop driving. Intense sport on a scar that is still being worked is dosed as usual with your physiotherapist, independently of the microcurrent.\n\n \n\n\nIs it reimbursed?
\n\nPhysiotherapy is provided on medical prescription so that it can be reimbursed by the [CNS](https://cns.public.lu/fr/assure/remboursements/prestations-remboursees/prestations-paramedicales/kinesitherapeutes.html). The practice handles the paperwork. Details: [The Consultation](/bascharage/kinesitherapie/consultation-kine).\n\n \n\n\nHow can I book an appointment?
\n\nVia [Doctena](https://fr.doctena.lu/cabinet/Pole_Equilibre_Sante-281318) or on +352 26 65 28 42. Practice at 20B Rue du Bois, 4912 Bascharage — see [Contact & access](/contact).\n\n \n\n## Find out more\n\n- [Lymphatic drainage](/bascharage/competence/drainage-lymphatique)\n- [Electrotherapy](/bascharage/equipement/electrotherapie)\n- [The technical platform](/bascharage/equipement)\n\n","image":"https://pes-luxembourg.lu/bascharage/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/09/Microcourant-1024x341.png"}