Hanson Chiropractic announces PowerPlate Technology

Hanson Chiropractic offers a cutting edge physical therapy program comprised of PowerPlate™ Technology. We know that structure dictates function, and strengthening is imperative to stabilize the body, promoting stronger muscles and preventing re-injury. The PowerPlate™ is a rehabilitation phenomena supported by extensive research, and leads the industry in three-dimensional Advanced Vibration Technology™.

It uses the principles of Acceleration Training™ to stimulate the body’s natural response to vibration, while transmitting waves of energy at safe levels throughout the body activating muscle contractions between 25 and 50 times per second. Acceleration Training with PowerPlate™ machines creates instability in the human body, as with each vibration the body is forced to perform reflexive muscle actions, multiple times per second. Furthermore, these contractions must work in multiple dimensions oscillating in all three planes, exactly as the human body is designed to do. The net result is an incredible improvement in force production, or strength and power.

Benefits:
Benefits include immediate improvement in blood circulation to measurable outcomes such as increased muscle strength and flexibility, decreased cellulite, reduced pain, and faster recovery. It also allows people with conditions such as osteoporosis, multiple sclerosis and arthritis to exercise while working within their physical limitations. Vibrations stimulate the muscle-pump-effect and cause an increase in blood-flow with an improvement of transport capacity for: Oxygen / Carbon Dioxide vitality components (micro nutrients), Energy components (macro nutrients), Derivates and waste (i.e. lactic acid).

Exercise and Weight Loss, A Winning Duo!

The PowerPlate™ can be used for numerous applications from rehabilitation of injuries and post surgical rehabilitation to improving strength, endurance and weight loss. A 25% reduction in cellulite, 16% improvement in vertical jump and a 350% increase in natural human growth hormone-(hGh) are only a few of the incredible changes the PowerPlate™ can initiate! This is a true revolution in rehabilitation and physical therapy! Exercising on the PowerPlate™ aids in weight loss and is vital to stopping the revolving door of pain. Motion signals in the body block pain signals, and pain decreases with movement. Exercise and the PowerPlate™ help strengthen the body and enable the healing process. Great posture begins with strong legs and core muscles, and nothing will improve these muscles like the PowerPlate™.

“10 minutes of the PowerPlate™ is equivalent to 60 minutes of conventional training.” This explains why many celebrities, pro-athletes and pro athletic teams own and train with the PowerPlate™, including some of the best team and athletes in the world in 2011.

Vibrate your way to a better body

Lauren Heist | Beep Staff Writer
Monday, August 14, 2006
So let me get this straight. Power Plate is a device that you stand on for no more than 10 minutes, it vibrates, and you end up having more toned muscles, better balance and better flexibility. Oh, and it burns calories, too.

LAUREN HEIST
Dan Burgess, 27, demonstrates a push-up on the Power Plate.
Too good to be true, right?

Naturally, the makers of Power Plate, a company headquartered in Northbrook, insist that their product is the real deal and the wave of the future.

And the fitness community is catching on.

David Van Daff, senior director of education and development for Bally Total Fitness, says the Power Plate’s results are so amazing that his company has recently been installing them in gyms nationwide.

“People love it,” Van Daff says. “All of a sudden, they loosen up and the blood starts flowing and people who could never touch their toes before can touch their toes.”

Madonna, for one, swears by it and has one in her own home (and we all know how buff she looks). And the Chicago Bulls have one, too, to keep their athletes at the top of their game, as do many other sports teams, according to the company.

But you don’t have to be a professional athlete or professionally toned pop star to benefit from the “vibration technology” exhibited by the Power Plate. The company says the device can work wonders for everyone from the gym rat to the ultimate couch potato to Grandma in her walker.

Here’s how the Power Plate works. The machine has a flat platform that vibrates up and down about two to four millimeters for anywhere from 30 to 60 times per second, depending on your setting. Company executives say if you do exercises while you’re standing on the platform, you’ll multiply the effects. One bicep curl, for example, can be the equivalent of 900 bicep curls when you’re standing on the plate.

And John Wilson, vice president of sales for Power Plate, says a 10-minute workout on the Power Plate is the equivalent of a 50-minute workout in the gym.
Scott Hopson, director of training and education for Power Plate, says the device uses one basic concept: gravity.

Every time you fall, Hopson says, you’re increasing the amount that gravity is pulling you down to Earth. When you move back up again, gravity is lightened. As gravity pulls down on your muscles, they have to work against the resistance, and as your muscles work to hold you upright, they are releasing and contracting. That means every time you move up and down, you’re making your muscles work.

“It has a lot to do with fast twitch muscles,” Wilson says. That’s why Wilson says it’s especially popular among basketball players who want to increase the power they get out of each jump.

When I tried it, I felt like I was holding onto a jackhammer or sitting on one of those vibrating chairs in Brookstone. You could see the muscles and skin on my legs and arms quivering as soon as the machine was switched on.

If this makes you think of those belts people used to wear around their waists in the 1950s, you’re not alone. Hopson says it’s an analogy he hears a lot.

“The vibrating belts of the past simply vibrated. What our product really does is it manipulates G-forces,” Hopson says. “It goes up and down and every time it goes down, it increases a G-force. That belt didn’t create a displacement between you and the earth.”

This kind of vibration technology was first developed in the 1970s by Russian Olympic coaches and later used for Russian astronauts to keep their muscles from atrophying in space. The commercial version was first brought to market in 1998.

“It’s not a trend; it’s a new type of fitness,” Wilson says. “There hasn’t been any technological breakthrough in fitness (in a long time).”

Van Daff agrees. “Probably right now in the fitness industry there is nothing more new than vibration technology,” he says.

Because you don’t sweat on the Power Plate, Wilson says, this new technology could be exactly what rehabilitation facilities are looking for to attract people who currently aren’t very physically active.