Low impact exercise machine for improving balance and stable mobility

Abstract

Exercise equipment designed to provide low impact exercise for the lower body muscles that are critical for maintaining balance and stable mobility designed for both healthy individuals and those with decreased strength and endurance such as the elderly. The apparatus and method includes a horizontally oriented balance platform on which an exercising individual may stand and a hand rail to provide extra balance support. Once initiated, the balance platform gently tilts up to 30 degrees in any radial direction requiring the exercising individual to respond by contracting the various muscles in the legs, hips and core to counter the changed orientation of the balance platform. The balance platform may then return to a horizontal orientation and tilt again in a new radial direction. The motion of the balance platform may be controlled by a programmable controller.

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