Vibration/Power Plate machine

Don't bother, I don't really see the point in them either way but anything you can buy for the home market especially at the cheaper the better end will be extra crap.
 
This gvae me the opportunity to find out what the deal is with 'power plates'... and my advice would be to save your money and buy a home gym setup instead.

I appreciate that doesn't answer your question, and I'm sorry - I won't post again in here. :)
 
Cheers for the advice and I know what your getting at, but i'm not looking at one of these as some fad weight loss device. Been advised by physio's and surgeon to use one for recovery purposes.
 
wilber said:
Cheers for the advice and I know what your getting at, but i'm not looking at one of these as some fad weight loss device. Been advised by physio's and surgeon to use one for recovery purposes.
Click to expand...

Much cheaper to get a wobble board (having been drubbed and seen drubbings by my own physio).Similar principle; faction of the cost...

I'm assuming you're coming out of some form of lower limb trauma?
 
I have used Bosu balls (wobble board/half Swiss ball) for my ankle with good results. We have some of the power plates in the gym, but I've stayed away from them and concentrated on balance boards, one leg balancing and adding weight to squats and lunges.

I hope your recovery goes well.
 
mrthingyx said:
Much cheaper to get a wobble board (having been drubbed and seen drubbings by my own physio).Similar principle; faction of the cost...

I'm assuming you're coming out of some form of lower limb trauma?
Click to expand...

Yes about 18 months ago.

Dislocated my knee
Snapped ACL, PCL, MCL
Tore some tendom
Fractured some bone
and Snapped my peroneal nerve

Had two, five hour operations. One was a nerve graft. I was told using a power plate machine would be beneficial to the nerve recovery, vibration is supposed to stimulate the nerve and muscle?? :confused:

I was using one in the gym when i was on a recovery program but that's ended and the gym is 30+ mile round trip away, hence why i was looking to purchase something.
 
Last edited:
Yeeeesh. Sounds like you tried hard on that one! Hope you are recovering! :(

Get a wobble board/pad/whatever in the first instance and work with that. You will be trying to repair the neural pathways and a wobble board does broadly the same thing as a power plate.

Are you still getting physio cover for your knee?
 
Yeah it was an incredible amount of damage for such a small accident. :(

I believe I had a weakness there prior to the accident though.

I was recieving physio till around october. I noticed my knee had got weaker by december, so asked my doctor to get me re-assed with the physios.

I started back around a fortnight ago, with a basic at home excercise program, which they will eventually ramp back up to physios in the gym again.

I spoke to my surgeon yesterday, he says the nerve has grown around a foot, so he wants to leave it again for another 9 months and see how its progressing. If there is no change with movement then he will do a tendon transfer to give me lift back in my foot.
 
I have no idea of a suggestion to buy, but in will say the power plate at my gym has been one of the best bits of kit for my rehab following knee surgery.

I've used wobble boards and bosu balls, squatting on them etc with a plan from my physio. Holding a squat on power plate at certain ranges of movement has definitely been the best way to hit the muscles around my knee.

I lost a huge amount of muscle following a procedure called microfracture for a cartilage tear of my femoral condyle over the weight bearing surface and it has been incredibly difficult to build it back up. I can only now run 1 year after surgery.

The power plate I find especially helpful at targeting my VMO and I can actually deliberately engage this now, when I really couldn't before using the power plate
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top Bottom