GyroStim Sensorimotor Exercise System

Many of the videos featuring GyroStim on social media show someone wildly spinning then changing directions quickly, whirling upside down, and going crazy fast. Why? Because those videos are exciting to watch. What you don't see are therapy sessions that start low and slow and gradually increase in intensity, but not before the person in the chair is ready. As you might imagine, when someone posts a video of GyroStim on social media, people who are unfamiliar with the technology post all manner of creative comments about motion sickness…and its associated symptoms…in colorful detail. (Ironically, GyroStim is frequently used to treat motion sickness). We understand this reaction, however, we have also grown immune to it. This begs the question, ‘Do people get sick in the GyroStim?’ The answer is, NO. And here's why: Intensity progression is driven by incremental advancement based on both subjective and objective data---a fancy way of saying: no one goes faster, or, upside down u...

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The focus of this blog is the application of vestibular stimulation and sensorimotor exercise to a variety of conditions known to be impacted by the vestibular system. For the purpose of furthering this discussion we are dprosposing the exploration of the GyroStim methodology as a means for delivering this stimulation and exercise. In Practice: The GyroStim method is based on the premise that in order to improve one or more aspects of human performance you must challenge it. GyroStim is designed to challenge the three fundamental processes that drive many aspects of human performance: PERCEIVE:   Detailed information about what is happening around you is sensed through the eyes (vision), body (proprioception), ears (hearing), vestibular system (balance), and other senses, and sent via the peripheral nervous system to the brain.  PROCESS:   Sensory information about the environment is received, coordinated, and distributed throughout the brain, igniting a...

DID YOU KNOW? GyroStim moves at one RMP increments from 1 RPM to 30 RPM; some profiles invert, some do not.  You may see videos of GyroStim of people moving VERY SLOW or VERY FAST in GyroStim: People going slow are either just starting their training, or are addressing a specific rehabilitation goal. People going fast started their training with very slow motion profiles and worked up to the faster profiles over a period of time. Before you decide that GyroStim is too fast or too slow for you, your patients, athletes or research...check our home page ( http://www.gyrostim.com ), and, video page ( www.gyrostim.com/videos.html ) to see the full range of intensities.