Vibration therapy uses vibration to stimulate muscle contractions to burn calories and tone your body, while pregnant women, people with heart conditions and those wearing pacemakers can safely engage in it as long as the intensity does not cause back pain or injury.
Whole-body vibration therapy entails either standing or sitting on a vibrating platform to stimulate muscle contractions and ease tense muscles while healing injured tendons, ligaments and discs.
Improved Circulation
People often associate vibration therapy with weight loss; however, recent research indicates it can also provide overall health benefits.
Vibration-induced muscle contractions help improve blood circulation. This is particularly crucial for the peripheral vascular system, which relays, regulates, and distributes arterial blood all throughout the body as well as transporting venous blood back to its source at the heart. Furthermore, intensive vibration muscle contractions may break down scar tissue to allow tendon regeneration with new layer cells resulting in faster recovery times and less discomfort from chronic injuries.
Vibration can help relieve tension. For instance, if you have knots in your shoulder or neck area, vibration therapy may cause your muscles to contract and relax multiple times per second and help loosen up that area while increasing flexibility and range of motion. Vibration may also help ease migraines or severe headaches by increasing blood flow to affected areas and flushing out toxins in your body.
Whole-body vibration training has been shown to increase bone density and muscle mass. Research indicates this may be the result of mechanical interaction between skeletal muscles and bones, helping offset age-related sarcopenia and increasing growth hormone, parathyroid hormone and testosterone levels; all which can accelerate bone and muscle growth while aiding repair of microtears caused by exercise as well as decreasing the risk of osteoporosis.
Localized vibration can reduce muscle soreness and speed up healing of damaged tissues by stimulating your body’s natural healing processes. Furthermore, increased oxygen and nutrients to muscles and cells promote faster removal of metabolic waste produced by exercise resulting in faster removal of metabolic waste byproducts.
Vibration not only increases muscle strength and endurance, but can also reduce pain from chronic conditions like fibromyalgia or arthritis as well as relieve migraines or severe headaches. Furthermore, vibration improves balance, flexibility, skin appearance by stimulating collagen production within your body as well as promote balance amongst family members.
Increased Metabolism
Vibration therapy entails standing, sitting or performing exercises on equipment that oscillates to transmit vibration signals into body tissues and tendons, stimulating muscle contractions that improve balance, flexibility, and strength while simultaneously relieving stress, increasing circulation, flushing out toxins from the body and helping your body burn fat at rest – creating the potential for weight loss if combined with healthy eating habits and an active lifestyle.
Russian space program scientists and NASA space shuttle designers sought ways to prevent astronauts from experiencing muscle atrophy due to zero gravity conditions. Vibration technology using platforms that vibrated several times per second helped astronauts build muscle density. Later, physical therapists discovered this was also effective at augmenting workouts and building muscles.
Researchers recently conducted a study to see how whole-body vibration (WBV) affected people’s metabolisms, and discovered it can increase resting metabolic rates by 30%. Researchers speculated that vibration causes muscle contraction and relaxation which expend energy and leads to greater resting metabolic rates.
Vibrations also stimulate your bones, leading to greater bone density. They encourage blood flow throughout your body and may help prevent atherosclerosis–a condition in which plaque builds up inside your arteries, narrowing and hardening them until they eventually block blood supply to organs such as your heart, kidneys and brain – potentially leading to stroke or heart attack.
Vibration therapy may also help alleviate delayed onset muscle soreness (DOMS). DOMS causes pain and stiffness after strenuous exercise, restricting range of motion. Vibration therapy increases blood flow to muscles which speeds up delivery of nutrients needed to heal microtears caused by exercise and reduce muscle soreness.
Vibration may help increase metabolism by stimulating your gastrointestinal tract, believed to occur through vibration affecting nerves that control this part of the digestive process. Vibration has also been shown to enhance balance and flexibility as well as decrease injury risk.
Reduced Fat Cells
Vibration therapy can assist in your weight loss efforts by increasing metabolism and stimulating muscle growth and fat loss. Vibration plate exercises help improve balance and flexibility as well as reduce stress and tension for an overall better skin health result.
Vibration has long been used as an effective treatment option, including chronic muscle injury and bone density issues. Vibration-induced muscular contraction can even help prevent osteoporosis by stimulating bone growth; this occurs through repeated short pulses of high-magnitude mechanical stimulation delivered by vibration-induced muscular contraction to connected bones thereby stimulating and encouraging their regeneration and stimulating bone growth.
Vibration frequency and G-force impact the interaction between skeletal muscles and their supporting connective tissues, leading to intensive muscle contraction induced by vibration. This promotes circulation improvements as well as physiological processes leading to tendon tissue regeneration – breaking down scar tissue while encouraging living muscle cells to replace it with new living muscle tissue.
Studies have demonstrated that vibration exercise increases bone density for both men and women, and may even slow down postmenopausal bone loss. Vibrations stimulate production of osteoblasts – cells responsible for creating and strengthening bones – as well as improve calcium absorption; all factors critical for health bones.
Vibration therapy may also be effective at treating conditions like Parkinson’s disease. By stimulating muscle fibers and raising dopamine levels in the brain, vibration therapy may alleviate symptoms like tremors. Furthermore, vibration helps prevent or delay DOMS, or Delayed Onset Muscle Soreness which often occurs as an aftereffect of physical exertion injuries.
Vibration machines, often referred to as power plates, use vibration to treat all areas of your body or target specific areas for targeted treatment. You’ll find them at physical therapy clinics as well as some chiropractic offices; home users can purchase one as well. Ripple Ball devices offer different frequencies so you can choose one suitable to you.
Reduced Cellulite
Whole-body vibration therapy is an excellent weight-loss strategy when combined with healthy eating habits and regular physical activity. A recent study demonstrated this by finding that people using vibration machines for six months, two to three times weekly for 6 months saw 26% cellulite reduction!
Vibration training can also increase muscle mass while burning calories to assist weight loss. According to studies, when our bodies feel vibrations they send signals to muscles to contract and relax more rapidly causing them to burn more calories at rest than usual.
Vibration therapy can aid weight loss by improving circulation. Improved blood flow can flush away toxins from the body, leading to less inflammation and creating a healthier-looking complexion.
Women often undertake power plate vibration training, which entails standing or sitting on a vibration platform while performing exercises while the device is active. Vibrations should stimulate muscles and help decrease cellulite. Unfortunately, long-term exposure could harm internal organs.
These devices produce vibrations between 25-50Hz that can be felt throughout the body; these vibrations can also have an impactful impact on bones, joints, and internal organs. Professional treatment should always be sought as they can adjust settings so as not to harm internal organs or joints during treatment sessions.
Vibration therapy not only reduces cellulite and fat accumulation, but can also enhance balance and flexibility, promote lymph node activity, and aid the body’s natural detoxification processes.
Though further research needs to be completed in order to confirm these benefits of vibration therapy, some studies suggest it could reduce osteoporosis risk and joint pain by stimulating bone formation and decreasing bone resorption. Furthermore, vibration therapy has also been found to increase strength gains during physical activities as well as speed of recovery afterwards.
