More testimonials from doctors

Dr Alain Pigné, gynecologist

Osteoporosis

Power Plate® is a solution in the management of the prevention of osteoporosis.
This is not only to limit bone loss but also a way to regain the loss.
A solution without side effects, applicable to all.

Dr Jean-Michel Cohen, nutritionist

Decrease in visceral (abdominal) fat and weight loss

The accreditation of a medical device is subject to conditions which mean that a device only benefits from this accreditation if it has genuine authenticity in its medical use.

I have now included the Power Plate® in my prescriptions, because it is the only medical device that we can use with a scientific guarantee.

The very surprising result, a priori we have always thought that the Power Plate® had an action on the superficial muscle, there we realize that it has an action on the intra visceral fat and there it becomes much more interesting. Much more surprising for us, we obtain a decrease in intra-visceral fat which is statistically better than with the fitness group and than with the diet group.

Today, in nutritional protocols, we are obliged to include, as part of the profession of physical activity, the Power Plate® to achieve reduction and intra-visceral fat and weight reduction.

Dr Michel Cabrol, rehabilitation doctor (MPR)

Benefits of the Power Plate® for retired people

We installed a Power Plate® in a retirement home. We do static, semi-static or even seated work to work the deep muscles of the spine, which effectively allows stimulation of these deep muscles. There was an improvement in the muscle tone of the lower limbs and the para-vertebral muscles. The goal is to restore confidence, autonomy, and independence to the elderly.

Beneficial effects in the musculotendinous area

Having been, several years ago, one of the first doctors in France to use the Power Plate®, I had been so satisfied with the results that, since then, I have integrated it into the rehabilitation protocol of practically all trauma.

I had already obtained very satisfactory results in my practice using this device with elderly patients as well as with hemiplegics. The Power Plate® has been shown to be particularly useful for "restarting" muscle work, statically, without the patient exerting too much effort. In nursing homes, my main concern is that the elderly, often bedridden for part of the day, learn to stand up again in order to be as dependent as possible. We must also restore their self-confidence, by regaining a stable gait in order to avoid the fall, the outcome of which could be fatal.

Flexibility, osteoarthritis, osteoporosis

I have seen real well-being and relief in my patients after these Power Plate® sessions. A static session on Power Plate® can be very effective for older people complaining of back pain due to osteoarthritis or osteoporosis. Sitting on the Plate® with the Power Plate®, programming sessions of thirty seconds, at low intensity, alternating with rest times of the same duration. The session can also take place standing, without any movement to perform: thanks to the therapeutic vibrations, the muscles of the statics are forced to react, the body relaxes and a sense of well-being sets in. At the end of the session, the feeling is always positive.

Dr Philippe Blanchemaison, phlebologist, angiologist

Improved blood circulation

The Bedrest study in which I participated, under the aegis of the National Center for Space Studies, showed that there was a very close link between muscles and venous return because patients bedridden for six weeks suffered a loss of 15% muscle and at the same time their veins had distended.

In order to allow the veins to regain their tone and, in the process, to improve venous return, it is necessary to engage the deep muscles, known as postural, such as the soleus (deep calf muscles), which modern city dwellers do little to work on. In this case, some specific vascular gymnastics exercises performed on Power Plate® can be very effective.

If the Power Plate® were not to be used, the same results would require climbing a mountain in flats or walking barefoot on dry sand.

Water retention, heavy legs, varicose veins

The Power Plate® is particularly beneficial in reducing water retention. This dysfunction, which appears when the water leaving the capillaries is not sufficiently reabsorbed by the veins, is ameliorated by the pressure, from the depth towards the surface, due to the static contraction of the muscles, associated with the therapeutic vibrations of the Power. Plate®.

The reduction in water retention can be accompanied by a real feeling of well-being in women with heavy legs. One of my phlebologist colleagues, Dr. Patrick Helynck, underlined the value of the Power Plate® for the preventive and maintenance treatment of chronic venous disease, in other words, varicose veins.

Cellulite reduction

Four arguments highlight the positive effects of the Power Plate® on cellulite:

The improved water retention will lead to better blood circulation in the tissues which, in the process, will become softer.

Like any physical sport activity, the Power Plate® results in the expenditure of energy, which is accompanied by the burning of triglycerides and a reduction in fat mass.

For some people who are not very athletic, suffering from cellulite, this device represents an easy way to resume sporting physical activity, in a progressive and controlled manner.

It is possible that the therapeutic vibrations of the Power Plate® mechanically stimulate the fibroblasts, responsible for the production of collagen, thus improving fibrosis. However, we know that the hard appearance of cellulite is due to fibrosis, this qualitative and quantitative alteration of collagen.

Dr Alain Ducardonnet, cardiologist

Heart failure

Working on Power Plate® increases the capacity of people with heart failure, and for some, going from 10 to 12 may take them out of a transplant program. Going from 10 to 12 means that you will go not only from the armchair to the bed but from the bed to the kitchen, so you increase the scope of life of these people.

Their blood ejection capacity is reduced by 50%, 60%, 70%. It was interesting to have them work on the Power Plates®. We have results which, on the one hand, will seem extremely modest to you, but which are enormous. When you go from 84 W to 92 W, it is huge, you increase the life capacity of the subjects and it translates into the level of VO2.

Professor Hervé Douard, cardiologist, head of department at the Haut-Levêque cardiological hospital, in Pessac

Beneficial effects of the Power Plate® in the cardiological field

Heart failure patients who exercised, statically and dynamically, on Power Plate® running in low mode, all felt better, fitter, and all had gained in VO2 and performance.

A Power Plate® was installed in our rehabilitation unit. People, young and volunteers, not suffering from any particular pathology, but who were not used to regular sports practice, did Power Plate® sessions. The cardiovascular benefits observed are very interesting: performance and VO2 in the stress test improved by 15 to 20%: this is the maximum oxygen consumption that a subject, performing an effort of maximum intensity, can take at pulmonary level, transport by the cardiovascular system and consume at the muscular level.

A positive result roughly similar, but perhaps faster, to that obtained by a person, usually sedentary, with traditional sports training, for example soccer. On the other hand, cardiac measurements with VO2, taken during a training session, show that the vibrations in themselves place more stress on the heart rate and the SBP (systolic blood pressure).