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The Human Locomotion Fall Prevention Protocol – How to Create a Customized Treatment Program to Maintain Strength, Flexibility, Agility, and Balance as you Age
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The products on this website are designed for people who want to build strength, improve form, and prevent injuries, and for busy healthcare professionals looking for state-of-the-art examination techniques and tools.
New & Featured Products
ToePro Foot/Ankle Exercise Platform
The ToePro® foot exercise platform has been designed to Improve Performance by strengthening muscles of the foot and leg in their lengthened positions. Compared to conventional exercises, exercising lengthened muscles produces nearly fourfold increases in strength.
Twist Disk
Although there are a wide range of exercises that target each of the transverse plane stabilizers, the easiest way to strengthen all of these muscles simultaneously is with the Twist Disk. This product is comprised of 2 rubber plates that are bolted to a spring-loaded mechanism that provides significant resistance as you rotate the disk in and out.
Two-to-One Ankle Rockboard
The Two-to-One Ankle Rockboard is designed to place your foot in the position of a future sprain and then force you to use your muscles to pull yourself out of the risky position.
Fall Prevention Package
What is this package and why do I need it?
Fall Prevention Package includes 1-ToePro Foot/Ankle Exercise Platform, 1-Two-to-One Ankle Rockboard, 1-Balance Pad and 1-set of Balance Buttons.
- The ToePro Foot/Ankle Exercise Platform improves your performance and stability by strengthening muscles of the foot and leg in their lengthened position
- The Two-to-One Ankle Rockboard is designed to effectively exercise the muscles of your lower leg to prevent ankle sparains
- The Balance Pad is a great way to improve balance.
- Balance Buttons are designed to prevent falls and improve balance by producing site-specific stimulation of cutaneous receptors located along the outer sides of your feet
- and you get a discount!
ToePro & Dynamometer Clinician Packages
Packages includes 2, 6 or 12-ToePro Foot/Ankle Exercise Platforms and 1-Toe/Hip Strength Dynamometer
- The ToePro Foot/Ankle Exercise Platform improves your patients performance and stability by strengthening muscles of the foot and leg in their lengthened position
- Toe/Hip Strength Dynamometer allows you to precisely quantify toe strength. Toe strength deficits have been proven to correlate with chronic plantar fasciitis, falls in the elderly, and impaired athletic performance.
- Free UPS Ground shipping and per-unit discounts!
Testimonials
“As an athletic trainer in the NBA, the ToePro has become our favorite exercise device for increasing not just toe strength, but also horizontal jump distance. It also plays an important role in injury prevention.“
“I love my ToePro and use it every morning before I run. It helps strengthen my feet, ankles, and calves, and improves my push-off and running form. Takes just a few minutes a day and has helped keep me injury free. I even pack it when I travel!”
“Simplistic genius! The ToePro is incredibly easy to use and my athletes love it. I’m always surprised how many high-level athletes present with toe weakness, and how much they improve after using the ToePro. I wish I started using it sooner!”
“Dr. Michaud’s strengthening protocols kept me running through the toughest parts of my career. Three months after starting treatment for a spinal stress fracture, I set the world record for the marathon in Rotterdam, and the next year, I set another world record in Berlin.”
Brett Winchester, DC
Owner of Gestalt Performance and team chiropractor for St. Louis Cardinals
Sara Hall
Professional Marathon Runner
Claire Bernard Miller, PT, DPT
Activate Physical Therapy & Wellness
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Chang, Yi‐Chieh, et al. The effects of a preconditioning vibration rolling warm‐up on multidirectional repeated sprinting‐induced muscle damage. European Journal of Sport Science 24.1 (2024): 36-44.
Athletes have been using foam rollers to warm up before exercising for the past 20 years, and recently, foam rollers that vibrate at specific frequencies are being used to relax muscles and potentially improve performance (Fig. 1). While prior research shows that...
Kinoshita M, et al. Triceps surae muscle hypertrophy is greater after standing versus seated calf-raise training. Frontiers in Physiology 14 (2023): 1272106.
This interesting paper evaluated the best ways to produce hypertrophy in the gastrocnemius and soleus muscles. The authors emphasize that these important muscles are notoriously unresponsive to strength training and they list several studies showing that while the...
Domroes, T. et al. 2024. Personalized tendon loading reduces muscle‐tendon imbalances in male adolescent elite athletes. Scandinavian Journal of Medicine & Science in Sports, 34(1).
It’s been over 25 years since Alfredson et al. developed the heavy load eccentric protocol for managing Achilles tendinopathy and despite its continued popularity, outcomes with this protocol have never been that good. In fact, nearly 60% of people who perform this...
Pasapula C, Solomou G, Al-Sukaini A, Liew I, Goetz J, Cutts S. Evaluation of first ray instability using the double dorsiflexion test: A prospective observational case-controlled study. The Foot. 2023 Sep 1;56:102019.
Hypermobility of the first ray has been correlated with a wide range of forefoot conditions, including hallux abductovalgus and second metatarsal head capsulitis. Because hypermobility of the first ray undermines the stability of the entire foot, especially during the...