Posted on 07/14/2021 8:13:57 AM PDT by Wonder Warthog
Interesting. And I can personally attest to the need to “empty the reservoirs” before doing WBV. Fortunately, where we have ours installed is in a walk-in closet off the bathroom.
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The one I use cost $330 from Amazon, and I consider it money very well spent. Mine is fairly "heavy duty", there are smaller, lighter, and less powerful machines that cost less, but I can't speak from experience on those.
D-cell battery bump.
My wife has bone density problems (73 year old female). We look forward to her next bone density measurement.
That's what she said.
Heh...you won't run one of these machines on a D-cell.
Wrong vibrator....
There are two others which do old folks a world of good. The first oxygen therapy. You basically lie in a small chamber with Concentrated oxygen under pressure. Do that for an hour.
This therapy has been available for decades for heart attack victims whose hearts are not pumping very well.
But in recent years —oxygen therapy has been found to increase lifespan.
I’ve tried it. Basically, it makes me feel like I do after a good work out. And for similar reasons. After a good workout, my body is saturated with oxygen.
So if you’re not given to good workouts—this therapy will do. However, its expensive. Even the home devices are expensive.
The other therapy is red light therapy. I don’t know much about it—but I’ve seen several people on utube—whose opinions I respect—say nice things about it.
The prices of red light therapy devices are a similar to vibration therapy devices.
Fortunately, I do aerobic Heavyhands (and have since the 1980's), so I get a good aerobic workout even with just upper body work. Before the knee osteo, I used to have a small step machine, and I would do that simultaneously with HH. GREAT aerobic workout. Unfortunately, when the knee went, the stepper also did. Just couldn't use it.
Kamala had a Willie Brown
Red light therapy? Hmm..... never heard called that !
It’s sort of therapeutic ( I guess! Depends on one’s POV!) going to those “Red Light Therapy Districts”.
The main reason that people talk about how people should do low impact activities is that the joints wear out over time. People become immobile. lack of exercise kills them.
sounds like you dodged that bullet.
A horse is a horse of course of course.
My problems stem from a broken leg suffered as a high-school freshmen (compound fracture, both bones just above left ankle). When set, that left foot was angled about 5 degrees more "out" than the right one. I thought even then that when I got older I would have joint problems. One of the few times I wished that I had been wrong. When I hit 65, things started going sour (74 now). Thought sure I was headed for knee replacement. So far, WBV seems to have stalled (and even reversed) the deterioration.
I’ve known a lot of guys over the last couple of years at my old club who had knee replacements.
They’re usually out for 6 months to a year. But they do recover and come back.
So it looks like the state of the art for knee hip and shoulder replacements has arrived at a point where much of the original mobility can be restored
Made for good comedy on some shows too.
Amazon has models ranging from $100 to $2000. Most of the sellers are Chinese, and most of the reviews are fake. No way to know what is a good model.
A few brands are mentioned on the Wikipedia article (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whole_body_vibration), but these are probably added by a marketer.
Brkmrk
what brand did you buy? I’m looking on ebay (because I don’t shop at amazon anymore)...
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