ORBITER TREADMILLS |
Athletic Training Workout Program Uses &
Benefits
Healthy athletes train on Orbiter treadmills in order to
generate high intensity aerobics while running without the
wear-and-tear on their bodies they receive on hard surfaces.
Athletes are able to train closer to an athletic event on
Orbiter and still maintain "fresh legs". The chance of
injury (and reinjury) is almost always less performing true
low-impact exercise than it is performing high impact
exercise. A lot of treadmills claim to be "low impact"
today. They aren't - at least not by Orbiter's standards.
There is only one true low impact treadmill and it's name is
Orbiter.
Sports Medicine
The Orbiter shock absorbing treadmill revolutionized many
standard protocols of athletic rehabilitation in the 1990's,
especially in dealing with the time constraints of
professional and collegiate athletes.
"I'm
able to get players walking and jogging on the Orbiter
that can barely limp on a regular surface due to the
pain."
Ray Melchiorre -
Head Trainer Houston Rockets during Back To Back NBA
Championships
Professional and collegiate trainers have discovered they
can be much more aggressive with initiating ambulation and
reeducation of the gait mechanism with an Orbiter than they
can without an Orbiter.
Example:
While playing for the Houston
Oilers, Warren Moon suffered from severe patella
tendonitis. He used the Orbiter as his main modality:
(a) to build cardiovascular conditioning,
(b) as a warm up for weight lifting & before
practices, and
(c) whenever prescribed and needed during his
rehabilitation.
In all sports, getting athletes back to health and back
in the game as soon as possible is the goal. Orbiter is the
best way to accomplish this goal because Orbiter's industry
unique no-hard-impact surface allows aggressive walking -
jogging - running rehabilitation sooner than is otherwise
possible on other treadmills or surfaces.
Before the Orbiter, patients undergoing rehabilitation
were placed in 'rehab limbo'. They were allowed to work on
specific fitness components such as range of motion,
flexibility, and strength, but were usually restricted from
aggressive running and walking. The main reason for these
limitations was the negative effect that walking and running
(on hard surfaces) has on the body. Cumulative high impact
often has degenerative effects on patients with a variety of
disabling pathologies.
Special
Circumstances
Many users with special conditions have reported
benefiting from Orbiter's suspended trampoline like
surface.
A few examples include:
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1. Athletes following reconstructive
surgery.
2. Joggers, runners and walkers suffering from chronic
tendonitis.
3. Patients of all ages recovering from hip surgery.
4. Women concerned about performing impact exercise
during pregnancy.
5. Individuals with arthritis.
6. Women and men with chronic and acute sciatica.
6. Women with endometriosis.
7. A woman with Sjogren's syndrome joints.
8. Runners following surgery to repair complete lateral
meniscectomy and partial medial meniscectomy.
9. Individuals restricted from running due to back or
lower extremity (hip, knee, leg, ankle & foot)
injuries can often run without pain on Orbiters. We have
no reports of anyone receiving these type benefits from
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PRO ATHLETES AND PRO
TRAINERS
TALK ABOUT
THE ORBITER TREADMILL |
"After a year of running on our Orbiter my wife and I
have found that it has eliminated the hard rigorous pounding
and joint pain of running on a track or other treadmills.
Due to my high activity level, especially in tennis, I feel
that training on the Orbiter gives me fresh legs for the
hard surfaces I encounter."
Joe L. Morgan, Professional Baseball Hall of
Fame
"We were the second team in the NBA to utilize the
Orbiter in 1990, and it has helped tremendously in
accelerating rehabilitation protocol. My athletes like the
Orbiter so much that several of them, as well as the team's
owner have purchased their own."
Gary E. Briggs, ATC, Head Trainer Cleveland
Cavaliers
"Orbiter made me feel I'd rediscovered the spring and
bounce of my youth. Orbiter's sensation of airborne
propulsion captures the true joy of sprinting that only
world class athletes usually get to experience. It is the
only treadmill that recreates the flowing, bounding
sensation of world class running."
Steve Williams - Former World Class
Sprinter
Consultant to Olympic & Professional Athletes and Pro
Sports Teams
"A sprained knee normally takes three weeks rest
before a player can jog and impact the joint. With Orbiter,
this is reduced to 4 - 5 days. We have a wide variety of
injuries that normally require 7 - 10 days of rest before
getting back to jogging and then running. By using the
Orbiter, this time period is usually reduced to 4 days.
There's no question that Orbiter has had a direct impact in
returning our injured athletes to the field of competition
faster and in better condition. Orbiter allows normal gait
training without trauma. In the past, we had athletes swim,
use a step machine or ride a stationary bike to rehabilitate
leg & hip injuries, but these modalities fail to
simulate the normal gait training process."
Steven J.
Watterson, Strength and Conditioning Coach,
Tennessee Oilers
Winner of
the "1992 Strength & Rehabilitation Coach of the Year"
Award
"We have had over 300 athletes in our spring training
camp...they compliment the Orbiter's versatility and the
fact that they can work out for long periods of time without
experiencing soreness in their knees or low back."
Rick Griffin, Head Trainer Seattle Mariners
"Orbiter enables my athletes to get their
cardiovascular workout without stressing their legs...fresh
legs are often the difference in competitive
sports."
Ray
Melchiorre, NBA Head Trainer Houston Rockets
During Both of Their Back to Back Championship
Seasons |
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