Thanks, Teri!

I've been wondering how safe the vibrating plate technology really is since one of our fellow contributors here has had a few fractures recently diagnosed and has been using a home vibrating plate at home with much enthusiasm. Note, that cause and effect aren't clear but it is thought-provoking to contemplate. And she herself wonders if using the plates caused the fractures.

Since I've not used them but had been thinking of it, I was hesitant to post anything negative about them [already having a reputation here of being, shall we say, committed to due diligence and undiluted facts wherever they lead, lol ;-)].

But even able-bodied young jock types have hurt themselves by over-doing on these 'machines,' some seriously. (One noteworthy unjury is detached retinas, yikes.) And one study noted the danger of not standing fully vertical so the force/energy can be fully dissipated during the inter-disc spinal transit. Yet some of the online exercises advocate various off-verticle postures like leaning from the waist to 'concentrate the force in lower spinal chord' (sic).

So I'm glad that you're reconsidering the plates and hope others research them and approach them with appropriate diligence to determine best use. I've been working on some of Dr. Fishman's yoga and think they're unobtrusively powerful and love them...