Vibration Training

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Vibration Training Pain Management?
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• Involuntary near 100 recruitment of cells
• ( peak output )

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• Bypasses...
• low fitness levels , injury and depression

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• Fatigue / Anaerobic
• note necessary fatigue level reached in 60
  seconds  

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• Perceived exertion / very high

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•  Psychological and Physiological changes...?

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•  What are these known changes...? 

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•  Endocrine System Activation 

 Endocrine glands which secrete chemicals known
as hormones.Coordinating the activities of our
body and its nervous system.Endocrine
glands produce messengers that work between the
nervous system and the organs of our body.
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A full fight or flight experience happens in this
order   ( should not be confused with stress /
repressed trauma )
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The fight or flight response is activation of the
sympathetic nervous system. This causes a
system-wide response. Adrenaline and noradrenalin
are released leading to increased alertness.
Blood is diverted from the internal organs and
the skin to skeletal muscles
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20 seconds
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The first 20 sec... Alarm Phase...   
The first stage of the model is the alarm phase.
This is where the fight or flight response is
activated causing the organisms ability to
resist the stressor to increase.
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20 seconds
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The next 20 sec... Resistance Phase...   
The body starts to adapt to the existence of a
chronic stressor.
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20 seconds
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The last 20 sec...  The Exhaustion Phase  
In the exhaustion phase the bodys resources
become depleted, and body systems start to
deteriorate.
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Now the important part of all this is in pain
management is the combination of two things  
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1. Relaxation Response
This is the direct opposite of the fight or
flight response.
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The relaxation response works in opposition to
the fight or flight response by decreasing heart
rate, force of contraction, rate of respiration,
and diverting blood away from skeletal muscles to
the internal organs, therefore stimulating
digestion.
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2. Hormones released during exercise... e.g. 
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Exact reasons why are unclear and further tests
will need to be done, but it would be safe to at
least assume for the time being that pain
regulators/mediators such as Neurotrophin ( NGF )
and Serotonin are being produced during these
intense burst of exercise working at inflammatory
pain sites. 
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3. Important Psychological Factors
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• Being able to go from boredom phase to fatigue
  in 60 seconds allows for the same sense of
  achievement that completing any exercise format
  would.
• Previous internally set limitations are broken.
• Normally from day to day stress this graph is
  considered a negative beyond the distress stage.
  But when used in a combined physical and mental
  challenge simultaneously exhaustion and
  achievement has a favorable psychological outcome.

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Theory of built up " Fight or Flight "...
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Classic examples of a build up of physical and
psychological stress caused by unresolved intense
situations leading to delayed trauma such as..

• Physical sexual abuse
• Physical injury and prolonged hospitalization
• Forceful impact
• Emotional trauma 
• Witnessing violence
• Pre- and peri-natal distress, birth-related
  trauma

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Symptoms of this kind of stress can be.... 

• Restlessness, obsessive thinking, or anxiety
• Depression, drowsiness, or low energy
• Reactivity with fear, guilt, or anger
• Panic/anxiety attacks
• Relationship and intimacy difficulties
• Pains or disease with no apparent cause
• Addictions

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This tension is real and has physical
manifestations. Vibration Trainings targeting of
the involuntary reflex system and taking it
through the complete experience on a cellular
level allows this built up tension to be
released. On an zoological level you have just
had a fight and won. From our observation at
the studio level, success can be the best cure. 
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High Estrogen pain link....?
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Sex hormones levels, like testosterone and
estrogen are effected by Vibration Training with
studies showing an increase in Testosterone
levels of 7 - 15 
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What has this got to do with pain?
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Men taking female hormones often start to
experience chronic pain.  In a study of 54 men
taking oestrogen and anti-androgens as treatment
to become women, 30 reported developing pains,
primarily chronic headaches, during their
treatment.
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Alternatively...
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In another study of women taking testosterone to
become men, more than 50  found their aches and
pains improved.   It is theorized that
testosterone dulls pain by muting the excitatory
pain pathways in the central nervous system,
while estrogen heightens pain by blocking the
inhibitory mechanisms that damp pain sensing. 
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So at least in theory, Vibration Training may
make the difference between mild and chronic
pain.