When injuries leave you waiting-out a prolonged recovery process, whole body vibration therapy could help. According to the clinical research completed by the Rehabilitation Sciences Research Centre, vibration increases blood flow throughout the body, which accelerates healing. The providers at Spine Correction Center of the Rockies utilize imaging tools to ensure your vibration treatment is working safely and effectively. Learn how whole body vibration reduces your pain and injuries while improving performance.
How Does Vibration Therapy Treat Pain?
One of the best ways to accelerate healing is from increasing blood circulation, but the methods for this can be challenging when you are suffering from a recent injury. The great thing about vibration therapy is that it offers you some of the positive effects of exercise without the impact and stress exercise can put on your tendons, ligaments and soft tissues. Whole Body Vibration stimulates your muscles with vibration and causes them to contract and flex. The high rate of vibration stimulates these muscle contractions with great speed engaging 95% of all muscles–including the stabilizing muscles that need to function correctly to reduce pain. Vibration helps to relax tensed muscles and tight joints easing pain on nerves and improving your range of motion. Vibration therapy has also been shown to have a positive effect on inflammatory markers in patients that suffer from arthritis reducing chronic pain.
Vibration Frequencies and Their Applications
Did you know that different vibration frequencies yield different results? Lower frequencies are used primarily for physiotherapy applications with some strength and conditioning benefits. Higher frequencies allow you to receive exercise-level benefits but must require professional guidance structured around your current health and medical history.
What Does Vibration Therapy Do?
Whole body vibration therapy restores muscle strength, improves bone density, and is a foundational part of our neuromuscular reeducation program. The goal is to “retrain” the brain to allow for proper posture and biomechanics.
Making Your Posture-Muscles Work
Vibration platforms require that you stand and employ the use of your posture muscles to accommodate multiple rapid adjustments to achieve balance. As the machine vibrates, it transmits energy to your body, triggering your muscles to contract and relax dozens of times each second–about 30-50 times a second. In just 10 minutes, your muscles can get a workout that provides increased strength, stability, and tone. Each session targets key areas that you need to improve.
Exercises that utilize the power of vibration platforms have been shown to be three times more effective than if they were done alone.
Athletes and How They Benefit from Vibration Therapy
Strength and conditioning regimens of many professional and collegiate sports teams use vibration platforms to increase muscle strength with non-traditional methods.
A trained provider can ensure you stay safe, and receive the results you are looking for. Assistance from a trained provider can help prevent problems that can occur from high speed vibration with incorrect positioning (such as tissue damage). Home vibration machines or machine use without a trained professional are not recommended.
Other Benefits of Vibration Therapy
Still not sold on everything that whole body vibration can do for you? Consider the following benefits that you could offer your body through our in-office sessions:
- increase bone density
- reduce pain and inflammation
- promote immune response
- increase healing in sprains, strains, and fractures
- promote joint flexibility
- decrease stress
- increase energy levels
- aid in detoxification of the body
Whole body vibration therapy has the added bonus of providing an overall feeling of relaxation–now, who doesn’t enjoy that!
See What Whole Body Vibration Can Do for You Today!
If you have suffered from a recent injury, don’t hesitate to benefit from a free consultation at the Spine Correction Center of the Rockies. Superbly trained chiropractors and medical personnel are ready to support you with an individual treatment strategy that incorporates non-invasive, drug-free therapies, correction of issues and professional nutritional and lifestyle advice to facilitate healing.
Call (970) 658-5115 now for a FREE Consultation and to find out what we can do to help you eliminate your pain!
