Vibration plate

[corw314]

I have been going to physical therapy for 6 weeks now and feel so much better. One of the treatments they use is a percussion massager gun after I am done doing my excercises. I have been reading about how beneficial a vibration plate is so have ordered one. Interested to hear who is using one and if it is helping.

[Makeshift]

I have been using mine fo a year now almost every day; at least once and sometime twice a day for 10 minutes each time. It makes me feel good afterwards I can say. It’s a very low intensity but I can feel it gently vibrate through my knees, legs and up my spine even to the top of my head very gently as I stand with back straight and shoulders back and knees bent very slight. Mine is called a Myodyne LIV and it came from Florida. I will get another dexi scan in about a year to find if it helps retain or improves bone density. I had been on Prolia shots every six months for 5 years and Reclast the past Two years prior to now. This is the first year going forward without any type of meds. I really like mine and am very hopeful my results continue to improve or even stay steady. I know I still won’t know for certain which it is that helps since the meds will still be in my system even after not taking any for a year up until my dexi scan. Unless there’s a great improvement; then I would say it really helped. I will never take the drugs again even though I never had any reaction to them in any way. I just would continue the low intensity vibration plate, along with walking each day and playing Pickleball three times a week! And taking some vitamin D, K, and magnesium daily. I am 71 and try to stay active and enjoy life and people.Hope you like your vibration plate when it arrives!

[corw314 in reply to Makeshift]

Thankyou! I'm excited to try one. We are going across country in April and I figured if I feel it's helping would be good to bring with us. I am 65 and diagnosed in August of last year. Still trying not to take meds but taking calcium, a multi vitamin and starting a gym program. Keeping fingers crossed this helps.

[bonewarrior]

Following this thread. I am tempted to buy one but would like to hear from people who can say the vibration plate actually helped improve bone density. Then again, who know what really does... 🙄

[kimmw728]

Dr Doug Lucas has a YouTube channel and recently talked about this. He has a lot of helpful videos, too.

[Grandbend in reply to kimmw728]

I just started following Dr. Doug and have subscribed to his self-directed program. I have been researching best power plates and there is a broad price range. I have asked Dr. Doug which one he recommends and waiting to hear back. I am hopping with proper diet, strength and impact training and supplements I can improve by BMD. I am looking for anyone who is interested in following along together using Dr. Doug's Optimal Bone Health Progam.

[Aloha55 in reply to Grandbend]

I like Dr Doug’s content, but didn’t sign for any of his paid subscriptions.

[Aloha55 in reply to kimmw728]

He is great, I appreciate how he supports his views with scientific research

[Grandbend in reply to Aloha55]

I signed up for the Free Course which comes with a workbook you can print or download and on lines videos to address each segment of the program. Its hard to do on your own and thought a group might help with support and success. The paid program is for US residents so I was unable to pursue further.

[josephinius1]

I bought a "MaxBurn Pro Fitness Plate" at a vendor fair about 6 years ago on impulse, well before osteoporosis was on my radar. I did no research. I'd just seen a different kind at Costco for about twice the price, liked the benefits (weight loss, mostly,) they touted, so when I saw this one, I nabbed it. Now that I'm using it for bones, I can find no info about it, except that it's oscillation, not vibration, and supposedly that tends to be less intense, easier on the joints, better for old people, so maybe I got lucky there.

I used it regularly, 10 minutes a day (which was what the salesperson said to do,) for about a year after I got it, decided there was no way I burned 599 calories in ten minutes, saw no difference anywhere else, but it did feel good. Still, I...just sort of let it fade into memory until I saw Dr Doug Lucas' first video on vibration for bones late last spring.

I was diagnosed with very severe (spine score -4.6) osteoporosis in January 2023. I was willing to do whatever I could do to get better, because I was diagnosed--at 61--only because I'd already entered the chronic pain zone. A series of unfortunate events meant I decided fosamax wasn't the right option for me before I even heard back from my PCP, and I learned an endocrinologist with a supposed focus on osteoporosis was booked six months out, and she said "take whatever your primary prescribes" until I could see her.

I didn't like that answer, (primary prescribed Fosamax of course,) plus, now I'm on sites like this and on Facebook, and on top of it, my father-in-law had multiple rebound fractures after his doctor let him go off Prolia...a doctor mistake but still a drug horror story as far as I was concerned.

Still, my sense of things was that I was getting worse--I repeatedly hurt my back trying to do the right things, lost an inch (on top of the 2 inches I'd already lost,) between January and June of 2023, was just getting scared that "natural" wouldn't be enough. I finally saw a new PCP in June 2023, started taking the fosamax about three weeks prior just so he wouldn't be sp antagonistic toward a "noncompliant" abd extremely stupid person. After he referred me to an endo who did not specialize in osteoporosis but whom I could see quickly, I quit taking it because the endo said "not strong enough, not worth it," (since I was already having esophageal pain.) He prescribed Evenity, and I was prepared to take it, only insurance denied it. I fractured a new vertebrae in early September (went for a run, felt very good that day--total regret,) so started taking the fosamax again because pcp said it would help with pain. When my pain was not eased or affected by it at all, I quit taking it again and decided I was close enough to the year mark, I might as well see what "mostly natural" could do.

Just for background...sorry, long-winded.

Dr Lucas said research suggested hips could be improved with the vibration plate by 10% in six months, using it 3 times per week for 30 minutes. He said the spine was not improved but balance was improved so still good to do. My hips were not as bad as my spine, but improvement anywhere would be awesome, so I started the 3xs 30 min program in June, probably.

Later I saw another video that said 30 minutes was too much and you had to take a break every minute, which I found very annoying (do you step off? what?) So I dropped back to 20 minutes with no breaks.

I did the bit of weight training that seemed safe to do while standing on the plate, so two birds with one stone.

Even if it did nothing, by this time, my back was so stiff and sore, the "oscillation" just felt good. But also, this time, my legs actually did seem to get a bit thinner (?)

January 2024 I had a repeat DEXA. If I got worse, I promised I'd seek the drugs. If I got better at all, I'd take it as "natural CAN work, keep at it." I expected the worst, hoped to at least not get worse.

My hips improved about 4%, not bad but also not "significant".

My spine improved 14.6%. Significant even accounting for several errors.

I don't think 10 doses of Fosamax split up can account for either of those numbers.

I also can't say the plate accounts for them. But it surely didn't hurt.

Hope that helps!

[corw314 in reply to josephinius1]

Deffinately helps. Tku for sharing your experience. Will have to watch Dr.Lucas. Have not received the plate yet but hopefully next week.