Fitness and Wellbeing
Trunk stabilization training can positively affect your recovery from low back pain, assist in preventing injury and enhance your athletic performance. Sitting on mediBall Pro or using it as part of a stabilization exercise program can allow your body to operate at its functional best.
Your advantage in using mediBall Pro is that it promotes stabilizer and neutralizer muscle activity. The stronger these muscles the better your balance, coordination, flexibility and agility. Want to know more? Click these links - weight lifting and body building, general exercise, rehabilitation, SAFETY WARNING
Pain Management
Movement in a pain-free range of motion stimulates your body’s natural mechanisms for pain inhibition. The instability of mediBall Pro allows you to move easily, also allowing for continual small postural corrections while sitting, reducing static loading on spinal structures. These corrections allow you to move your body in a gentle and controlled manner, reducing pain.
Proper Posture for Work and School
Proper posture is neither an excessively arched back nor a flat or hunched back. It is somewhere in-between and referred to as neutral posture.
Neutral posture is recommended by the medical profession since this allows the spine to maintain its natural curve, thereby helping prevent both spinal damage and back pain. Neutral posture is recommended by the medical profession since this allows the spine to maintain its natural curve, thereby helping prevent both spinal damage and back pain.
Inflated correctly, mediBall Pro actively encourages a neutral posture by supporting a forward tilt of the pelvis, simultaneously assisting you in developing postural endurance over time. Sitting on mediBall Pro provides a gentle form of neuromuscular training as your body reacts to the instability. This allows proper posture to develop and be retained by you at a subconscious level. Your body will then adopt proper posture, even when sitting in conventional chairs, virtually with little or no conscious effort by you. Sitting on mediBall Pro can feel quite pleasurable, like floating on a cushion of air. This is because external forces on your body are minimized on mediBall Pro (unlike with conventional chairs. Want to know more? Click these links - Research Update No 1., Sitting at work or home
Pregnancy
mediBall Pro can also help you if you are pregnant. Using it throughout your pregnancy will strengthen the deep supportive muscles of the back, thereby helping to prevent as well as relieve back pain. Besides, you will find getting up off a mediBall Pro much easier than getting out of a normal chair!
Many hospital birthing units already use mediBall. In labour, gently moving on mediBall Pro reduces the pain of contractions. Sitting on mediBall Pro also can provide the correct pelvic tilt for opening up the pelvis. This can assist in optimizing the position of the foetus for birth.
MediBall Pro is great if sitting is painful after giving birth and babies like the gentle bouncing when the person cuddling them is sitting on mediBall Pro. Want to know more? Click these links - Benefits, Testimonial from a new Mum, Exercise in pregnancy with Preggi Bellies.
