The Second Wind Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to optimizing the experience of aging, is sponsoring a free study to evaluate balance benefits to seniors using a vibration platform, technology that was initially designed for use in space.
Participating subjects 50 years and older will be videotaped before and after doing standard balance tests. The program includes a 10 minute session on the vibration plate, three times a week for 12 weeks. At the end of the study, all the data will be collected and analyzed for results.
Vibration platform technology was designed to combat muscle deterioration and bone density loss in astronauts caused by being weightless for long periods of time. Experts say that the muscles involuntarily respond to the vigorous vibration by rapidly contracting more muscle tissue at the same time than in doing standard exercise.
Interested potential participants should contact Dr. Rooda at (609) 921-3004.
Dr. Gonthar Rooda is a chiropractic physician with 30 years in private practice. For the last decade, he has studied and researched how people age and why some people seem to do so much better than others. He started SWF as an educational forum to explore the effects of aging and to demonstrate that making the right choices has everything to do with aging optimally, living old age fully, and dying with dignity.
Second Wind Foundation is a non-profit organization whose mission is to educate and provide services to people who want to age optimally by design and not by accident. Its current project is educating and training people to improve their balance and reduce the risk of falling. The 7-year old foundation is funded by private donors.
