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Losing your balance is more than just a case of simple clumsiness. In fact, medical professionals consider a person’s inability to keep his or her balance to be a potentially disabling problem. For young people, occasionally losing their balance risks ridicule at worst. Among the elderly, one fall can cause them to suffer severe injury that could easily leave them disabled for the rest of their life, or even kill them.

While it’s natural to be skeptical of anyone who claims positive results from the use of their product, it’s important to accurately represent the facts. We wanted to take a minute to correct a few falsehoods we’ve read about Vibration Training and Whole Body Vibration.

Yoga on the VibePlate

The benefits of doing Yoga are significantly multiplied when doing it directly on the VibePlate. Here’s how the VibePlate can help take your Yoga exercises to the next level:

Seize the day with VibePlate! Osteoporosis affects 1 in 3 women and 1 in 12 men over the age of 50 in the United States today. This loss of bone material causes unexpected, seemingly random fractures in its victims. Common treatments include an increase in calcium in one’s diet and light exercise. Prescription medications like Boniva and Fosamax are often prescribed to slow and reverse the effects of osteoporosis.

Sufferers of peripheral neuropathy have new reason for hope – the VibePlate! Peripheral Neuropathy -- damage to the peripheral nervous system can come from a variety of sources. These include various diseases, and physical trauma to one’s nerves. Treatments for this condition vary, too. Common antidepressant and anticonvulsant drugs are commonly prescribed for the symptoms associated with peripheral neuropathy. Duloxetene (a serotonin-norepinephrine reuptake inhibitor) is also being used as a treatment.

Movement facilitates proprioceptors which facilitates muscle reaction. The more effective and efficient the muscle reaction is, the more purposeful and productive the resultant movement becomes. Our goal in all forms of function is to have efficient and effective, purposeful and productive coordinated movement patterns to accomplish what we need to do and what we want to do. If movement is the facilitator of this desired Chain Reaction™ response, then we must first of all understand the cause, or the trigger of this initial and critical movement.

Rodney Corn, FAFS
Co-Founder PTA Global

Okay, so let me get this straight … you just stand on this “plate” and it works you out? Yeah, right! Can someone please explain to me this whole vibration-training thing, please??? This is a very common response to the concept of vibration training. Especially if the person is watching a video on it, using it in a facility, and/or are standing on one for the first time. Let’s take a look at some key aspects of vibration training to help get a better understanding of it.

By Gary Gray, PT, FAFS

What we do is empowering. What we do is fun. What we do is functional. We empower others by creating fun environments that enhance their function. It is empowering when our clients work better, play better, and rest better through the interactions within fun and functional environments. Not only is it empowering to them, but it is also empowering to us.

Yoga on the VibePlate

The benefits of doing Yoga are significantly multiplied when doing it directly on the VibePlate. Here’s how the VibePlate can help take your Yoga exercises to the next level: Muscle relaxation:

Yoga’s peaceful movements and focus on relaxation are great for your muscles. Tense and sore muscles are more likely to loosen up and relax when doing easygoing, peaceful Yoga exercises. The VibePlate’s revolutionary vibration technology massages and relaxes your muscles. Put Yoga together with the VibePlate, and you’ve got a recipe for relaxation!

Most physically active individuals are familiar with what are known as ‘core’ training exercises. These exercises, which focus on abdominal and lower back muscles can keep. Having good core strength means that the muscles of your back and abs are strong and toned.

For many exercisers, having a modest home gym is the best way to stay in shape without wasting time and money travelling back and forth to expensive fitness clubs. A balanced home gym will include a way to train for strength, such as a series of hand weights, or a bench press. They often include a machine focused on cardiovascular health, like a treadmill, elliptical, or stationary bike.