WBV Is an Important Component of Today's Athletic Training

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Whole Body Vibration (WBV) addresses the many various aspects of training. By incorporating WBV as an integral part of your training cycles, you can help shorten training times and make both physical and mental improvements. It's also easy to use. Use WBV for:

• Preexercise warm-up
• Flexibility and strength
• Proprioceptive, kinestatic awareness, muscle memory
• Injury prevention
• Rehabilitation
• Sports-specific functional training
• Fast-twitch, slow-twitch training
• Faster recovery with less post-exercise soreness
• Improving brain plasticity

Lower-extremity rehabilitation with WBV focuses on: 

• Ankle, knee, patella femoral issues
• Early acute, subacute, chronic injuries
• Calf stretches, knee stability and strength exercises

Speaker: Christian H. Reichardt, DC, CCSP
Christian has been a practicing doctor of chiropractics since 1983. A former disability evaluator for the State of California, he turned his attention from work-related injuries to sports injuries due to his own involvement in sports.

He became one of the first certified chiropractic sports physicians in the U.S. in 1986, as well as a Diplomat of the American Academy of Pain Management. His practice in Santa Monica, Ca., draws a large clientele of Hollywood celebrities, as well as professional and amateur athletes. He has worked with a number of U.S. Olympic Team members and golf professionals. Christian has been using vibration technology for the last 15 years.