A method of assessing the effectiveness of muscle treatment is provided that includes a controller generating a control signal for transmission to an energy generator, delivering energy from the energy generator to a stimulation pad for purposes of providing muscle therapy, and measuring at least one muscle metric value reflective of the healing status of the muscle and comparing that value to a pre-established corollary between such muscle metric values and corresponding healing status for differing demographics, whereby the user may determine whether to continue muscle therapy or not.
