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Power Plate - Advanced Vibration Technology

Awakenings Health Institute has a PowerPlate Pro5 with AIR technology manufactured by www.powerplateusa.com.

The PowerPlate’s advanced vibration technology is the most innovative health and fitness tool in the industry today. Backed by over 40 years of research, vibration training enables users to achieve a higher level of fitness and ultimately enhances one’s quality of life. The power plate produces a vibration that is transferred to the body. This mechanical stimulus produces a stretch reflex eliciting involuntary muscle contractions. The Power Plate has been used extensively by top athletes and is now widely accepted all over the world within medical, rehabilitation and health & fitness.

Benefits

The benefits of the Power Plate's Advanced Vibration Technology are considerable, as evidenced by its acceptance by major medical, rehabilitation and therapeutic centers across the country. It can enhance an individual's general well being and quality of life regardless of age, medical, neurological or physical condition.

Vibration training on the Power Plate is used to substantially:

• Improve muscle strength and performance
• Increase flexibility and range of motion
• Enhance critical blood flow throughout the body (oxygenation and lymph drainage)
• Increase secretion of hormones that are important in regeneration and repair processes, such as HGH (Human Growth Hormone), IGF-1, and testosterone.
• Increase bone density
• Increase of the happiness hormone serotonin and neurotrophine, a substance that supports our thinking process.
• Decrease cortisol levels
• Rehabilitate injuries and ailments
• Enhance explosive strength
• Enhance conventional training results
• Speed training recovery
• Accelerate weight loss
• Reduce lower back pain
• Enhance pain reduction
• Improve collagen production
• Reduce appearance of cellulite
• Eliminate the effects of stress

The Power Plate with its revolutionary Advanced Vibration Technology offers a solution that will not only improve the quality of life day-to-day, but ultimately add precious years as well.

Medical Rehabilitation

The medical benefits of the Power Plate are considerable, as evidenced by its acceptance from major medical, rehabilitation and therapeutic centers across the country. The biomechanical aspects of vibration therapy are widely used in the medical field for the prevention and treatment of different types of illnesses and injuries. The Power Plate's Advanced Vibration Technology allows people with debilitating conditions such as osteoporosis, arthritis, multiple sclerosis, Parkinson's Disease, and stroke victims to gain the benefit of exercise while working within their personal limitations. Scientific research on the effects of Power Plate's Whole Body Vibration is continually being conducted all over the world. An increasing number of these studies and their results are being published in leading medical research journals.

Tech: Advanced Vibration Technology

Advanced Vibration Technology exploits the body's innate reflexive response to disruptions in stability in order to stimulate enhanced muscle strength and performance. The Power Plate produces a vibration through which energy is transferred to the body. This mechanical stimulus produces a stretch reflex which, depending on the frequency, results in rapid and intense muscle contractions 30-50 times per second.

Vibration training on the Power Plate offers a host of benefits such as considerably improving muscle strength, flexibility, range of motion, bone density and stimulating blood circulation. Additionally, studies have proven Power Plate's ability to reduce muscle pain and soreness, and expedite the recovery of damaged muscles and tendons.

Just as the leg kicks forward involuntarily when the doctor strikes the lower knee to test reflexes, the body's muscles engage in an involuntary reflexive contraction in response to vibration's disruption in stability. The body's reaction to this mechanical stimulus is all natural and occurs involuntarily at the neural level.

How & Why it works

The Power Plate produces a vibration through which energy is transferred from the platform to the body. By standing on the Power Plate you will notice how your body automatically adjusts to the vibrations. This mechanical stimulus produces a stretch reflex which, depending on the selected frequency, results in muscles vigorously contracting 30 to 50 times per second.

Exercise causes the body to tire; rest allows the body to recover. By repeating this process, the body adjusts to the level of effort, resulting in an increase in physical performance. This phenomenon, called super-compensation, similarly occurs when training on the Power Plate. However, compared with traditional training methods, greater results are achieved and hormonal production is increased in much less time.

Each set is performed no longer than 30, 45, or 60 seconds, and training sessions on the Power Plate need to be performed no more than 3 to 4 times per week with each session lasting about 15 minutes of actual time on the Power Plate.

Advanced Vibration Technology increases the production of regenerative and repair hormones, improves blood circulation, strengthens bone tissue, improves lymph drainage and increases basal metabolic rate. All this results in more strength, more speed, more stamina, rapid recovery of muscles and tissue, increased flexibility, mobility and coordination, improved collagen production, and fat reduction. The Power Plate offers a wide range of possibilities for use in the areas of Sports, Health, Fitness, Medical & Rehabilitation.