Evolution Physical Therapy First Clinic in Southern California to Introduce NASA-Designed Anti-Gravity Treadmill for Public Use (2024)

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Who invented the anti-gravity treadmill? ›

Robert Whalen, invented a treadmill that he licensed to a Menlo Park, California company, Alter-G Inc.

The AlterG Anti-Gravity Treadmill uses a lifting effect to ease the impact on lower extremities. It is ideal for physical therapy after sports injuries, knee and hip replacement or stroke.

licensed NASA technology in 2005 and commercialized it through an “anti-gravity” treadmill that is now used by a variety of patients, including professional and collegiate athletes, people learning to walk again after injury or surgery and people suffering from other stresses on the joints such as arthritis or obesity.

Its ability to enhance cardiovascular rehabilitation, provide a consistent and controlled environment for recovery, improve gait analysis and correction, strengthen muscles, improve joint mobility, and enhance balance and coordination makes it an invaluable resource in the therapeutic realm.

However, there has been concern that antigravity treadmills may foster deleterious motor patterns that could stress the lower extremity muscles or surgical site and increase the risk for reinjury.

-based AlterG on Monday plans to announce a more affordable model, the AlterG M300. The two treadmills in the M300 series deliver the same antigravity technology as AlterG's pricey $75,000 P200 series, but at a third of the cost--$34,900 to $36,900.

The AlterG anti-gravity treadmill contains NASA patented technology that allows you to reduce your body weight by as much as 80%. The AlterG is used by the military, professional sports teams, top athletic programs, universities and leading medical facilities across the nation.

These results indicate that running cadence at any body weight level on an anti-gravity treadmill can be expected to be less than over-ground cadence. Compared to natural cadence on a standard treadmill, one can expect a 10% decrease in cadence at 50% bodyweight and a 20% decrease in cadence at 20% bodyweight.

“You can't feel the shock of the ground quite as much,” he says. “It just feels kind of like you're floating and running.” Campbell says the anti-gravity treadmill provides the same buoyancy effect you'd get running in a pool, but without the thickness of water pushing against you.

Parabolic Flights

These plane flights — also known as “vomit comets” — follow a steep up and down pattern, creating a microgravity environment at the top of the hills of the flight. This is the same effect as when a rider temporarily feels weightless on a roller coaster and is experiencing reduced gravity.

Do anti-gravity machines work? ›

Antigravity, on the other hand, involves lessening the effects of gravitational pull on an object, and the science just isn't there yet. Many scientists strongly believe that antigravity isn't possible, given what we know about the universe and the laws that govern it.

Anti-gravity training and rehabilitation assists athletes by lessening the impact or loading on lower body extremity joints and muscles while shortening the healing process by overcoming weight bearing restrictions due to injury and overuse.

Improve Your Lung Capacity

Cardiovascular exercises benefit the lungs and heart, so you can improve your breathing the longer you walk on a treadmill. To keep up the pace on the treadmill, you'll need to draw in more breath, making your heart pump faster as it circulates blood throughout your body.

On a treadmill, you can work a lot of different muscles, particularly your calves, thighs and glutes. Your abdominal and lumbar muscles are simultaneously involved while training, taking on a core-strengthening role.

An exercise stress test helps determine how well your heart responds during times when it's working its hardest. It typically involves walking on a treadmill or pedaling on a stationary bike while hooked up to an EKG to monitor your heart's activity.

Through the 1920s Brown developed this into devices that combined high voltages with materials with high dielectric constants (essentially large capacitors); he called such a device a "gravitator". Brown made the claim to observers and in the media that his experiments were showing anti-gravity effects.

Dr. Wilbur Franks was a Canadian medical researcher, known for inventing the world's first anti-gravity suit (also known as a G-suit or anti-G suit) used in combat.

In recent years, zero gravity chairs have grown in popularity, with an ability to unlock weightless, stress-free experiences. It was NASA that created the "first" zero gravity chair in the 1990s to aid astronauts in adjusting to the physical demands of spaceflight.

Michael Jackson's Patent for Anti-Gravity Shoes (1993)

The patent allows the "wearer to learn forwardly beyond his center of gravity." The inventors listed on the patent along with Michael Jackson are Michael Bush and Dennis Tomkins, the Hollywood design duo credited with creating Jackson's iconic look.