My mother had a 1/2 knee replacement in January, 2009. She has heard about a vibration machine for exercise but wants to check if anyone else who has or knows someone who had the same surgery has tried the machine and if it affected their Knee.

Thanks.

THE PROMISES MADE by the makers of this elegant exercise machine are wild, and to any time-poor, cash-rich, possibly fitness-phobic listener, wildly seductive. The ‘miracle’ machine enables a super-speed, technologically enhanced workout that melts the fat, firms the muscle and strengthens the bones of your whole body with what they describe as the ‘bare minimum’ of effort.

Indeed, the marketing material indulgently claims, in the 25 minutes in which you complete your session, you need not even break a sweat. Lo, we cry, what is this new machine of such mythical power, that it can transform the irksome notion of exercise into something so fragrant, so expedient, so modern?

The truth is you have probably already heard of it. The Power Plate has been big news since its arrival on the mass market in 2005 as a vibrating platform that, once mounted, provides accelerated training via the effects of WBV or Whole Body Vibration. The WBV principle is relatively simple: when you exercise gently on the rapidly juddering machine, your muscles contract to stabilize you.

Although the technology behind these vibration plates seem like a very modern modernization, the concept on the whole substance vibration owes its origins way back to the perpetually when the Ogygian Greeks where so bowed on discovering ways to put the healing manipulate of injuries on a faster walk. From the start, they would wrap the simulated substance part with a on the knuckles of textile, one end of which is tied to a saw that would take measures the believed-to-be-healing vibrations. Although simpler in blueprint, this Greek method will show its facsimile to the belt massagers that we have today. In the tardily nineteenth century, legendary inventor and physician John Harvey Kellogg utilized vibrations from machines in treating his patients. But the hint of using the concept on whole trunk vibration in the latest times is attributed to Vladimir Nazarov, a Russian scientist. He referred to the organize as the “biochemical stimulation.” The Russian Room Program made researches and studies on using vibrations to trigger mechanism in the muscles,...

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