Summary
Can Vibration Plates help with fitness, bone density, and even lymphatic drainage?
They've been around for a while but vibration plates seem to be having another 'moment'. Originally touted as a piece of fitness kit for the gym or home, the latest ads on social media seem to be promoting claims around benefits to bone density and lymphatic drainage.
Listeners Natasha and Steve got in touch wanting to know whether all this could really be true of a single wonder product! To find out, presenter Greg Foot is joined by Dr Claire Minshull, a sports rehabilitation expert, and Professor Neil Mansfield, author of the book 'Human Response to Vibration'.
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| 0:32.4 | Hello, I'm Greg Foote and welcome to Slice Bread, the show that investigates the wonder products |
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| 0:41.4 | evidence to find out of one of your suggested wonder products is indeed the best thing since |
| 0:45.8 | sliced bread or marketing BS. And today's suggestion comes from not one, but two listeners, Tash and |
| 0:53.4 | Steve Etty Edwards, who are |
| 0:55.2 | calling in from Dubai. Welcome you to. Hi, Greg. Hello, hello. Tell us the wonder product then |
| 1:01.6 | that you'd like us to investigate today and why. We are looking to investigate vibration plates. |
| 1:07.7 | We have a friend here who purchased one around Christmas time and we didn't really know |
| 1:14.0 | what it did. And we were really keen to hear what exactly the benefits are. How mid-2000s of your |
| 1:22.5 | friend? I mean, I remember these being all the rage back then, weren't they? But they are definitely |
| 1:28.3 | having a resurgence. So I feel like your friend is very on trend. For anyone who hasn't seen one, |
| 1:34.2 | can you describe what you saw when you walked in and you saw your friend on one of these? |
| 1:37.7 | It was essentially a kind of plate on the floor. It was quite a hefty piece of kit and big enough to stand on. |
| 1:46.6 | Yeah, it had a control and then the control basically decided how long you stayed on it for |
| 1:52.6 | and how strong the vibrations were depending on what you wanted from it. Did you try it yourself? |
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