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While most balance-training devices strive for improved static stabilization on an unstable surface, the Core-Tex strives for whole-body dynamic stabilization over its unique platform. The integrated handrail provides the needed support for novice, rehabilitating or senior users. The handrail facilitates many single-leg and advanced movements, whereas full 360° access to the Core-Tex optimizes many basic standing or ground-based exercises. Simply lift the platform without the need for any tools or disassembly to add or remove the handrail or adjust the degree of platform reactivity by lifting the base and re-positioning the three bearing units, a task completed in approximately 60 seconds.
The 30" diameter platform is large enough to accommodate various user positions that include standing, sitting, kneeling, quadruped (plus hands-on-floor option), supine, hands-on/feet-on-floor, feet-on/hands-on-floor or a unilateral position with one foot-on/one foot-on-floor.
If you are a personal trainer, strength coach, athletic trainer or physical therapist, then you are also an environmentalist. Webster defines environmentalist as “one concerned about environmental quality especially of the human environment”. In this context we are not talking about air, water or trees. We are talking about the environment that you create to maximize your client’s function, performance and reduce their chances of injury. The use of unstable surfaces such as the Core-Tex™ is a critical piece of the environmental puzzle for our customers of all ages and ability levels.
 The flat top platform of the Core-Tex™ moves on a series of 3 ball transfers creating a simultaneous tilt, translation and rotation = movement along 3 axis. Unlike other unstable surfaces, the objective is to move and react versus “stillness”. We refer to this as an ongoing “pitch and catch” between the user and the Core-Tex™. As such, each and every movement of the Core-Tex™ creates a unique reaction within the kinetic chain. The Core-Tex™ is unique in that the rotation is unrestricted in 360 degrees. This unique feature allows the user to recruit the oblique myofascial lines connecting one side of the torso and the opposite lower extremity that are the foundations of functional movements (walking, running, throwing, lunging, etc.). This kind of variety in muscle recruitment is very difficult if at all possible to produce with familiar ground-based movements. Using the Core-Tex™, the body senses the unpredictability of the surface and increases muscular contractions for stabilization.
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The Core-Tex™ is an entirely new environment to maximize human movement. Its ability to tilt, translate AND rotate can be applied to all aspects of fitness - from NFL players and Olympic athletes to personal training and post rehab clients. Its small footprint and zero maintenance make it ideal for every type of facility.
With the Core-Tex™ you can:
- Actively mobilize joints in multiple planes through the motion of the Core-Tex.
- Access a higher level of neuromuscular facilitation and integration for both the athlete and the rehabilitating patient/client.
- Provide unique and advanced rehabilitation and performance movements for the shoulder girdle and upper body. Light enough and small enough to place on treatment tables for patients to sit or stand while using.
- Functionally integrate the body’s core through a full spectrum of available movements.
- Challenge the critical Righting Reflexes of the neck, eyes and inner ear so important to humans in upright posture for orientating ourselves to gravitational forces and accelerations of our center of gravity.
- Evaluate weight distribution, balance and balance shifts during sport specific tasks.
- The movements produced on the Core-Tex™ recruit the oblique myofascial connections between one side of the torso and opposite lower extremity that are the foundations of functional movements (walking, running, throwing, lunging, etc.)
If the user is standing on the Core-Tex™ (with or without the handrail) and performing an upper body exercise, each and every repetition will change the joint angle and the muscular recruitment. For example, doing a bicep curl while standing will create a weight shift and therefore motion of the Core-Tex™ platform. As the base tilts, translates and rotates, the lower extremities react, create motion at the hips and pelvis, the thoracic spine laterally flexes and rotates and the shoulder girdle position has changed-effecting each and every repetition differently. The loads lifted will not be as much as on solid ground, but the muscular recruitment will be much more varied.
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