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Power Plate® Science

Power Plate® devices are premium vibration equipment powering a new dimension in wellness solutions for diverse ages, lifestyles, and physical abilities. Based on the concept of Advanced Vibration Technology™, Power Plate®  machines create a neurological adaptation that can be summarized as a faster accessibility of the motor units and more efficient use of muscles’ contraction. These contractions lead to enhanced muscle strength and circulation, and ultimately to an improvement in quality of life.

Power Plate® equipment operates on a multidimensional level, differentiating them from other modalities, and promotes:

· Improved synchronization of the impulses

· Improved co-contraction of the synergists 

· Inhibition of antagonists 

· Increased recruitment of motor units 

· Increased size of motor units

Additionally, the vibration technology behind Power Plate® machines enhances motor unit recruitment and synchronization, resulting in an increased force production and efficiency of movement. Power Plate® creates 25-50 vibrations per second, forcing the body’s kinetic chain to respond each and every time, requiring stabilization, coordination, strength and power.  Individuals can produce up to 95% of their voluntary force potential while performing safe and possibly pain free movements.

These positive outcomes are made possible by the Power Plate® equipment’s stimulation of the body’s natural reflex arc allowing sensory motor function to be created and developed at an unconscious level. The multi-dimensional vibration creates perfect proprioceptive stimulation reciprocal to the demand of gravity on earth without excessive loads being placed on the musculoskeletal system.