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Coaching the Core-Tex Platform

An often overlooked way to both control the Core-Tex platform and interact with the client or patient is for you to control the platform. The coach or therapists can:
  • stabilize the platform with your hands
  • guide the motion of the platform with your hands
  • create abrupt starts and stops for your client or patient to react to

This short video will give you some insight how you (or a workout partner) can interact with the Core-Tex platform and user. 

Bonus:  Pay attention to the sound of the new Core-Tex....

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We often see our Core-Tex family assume upright balance training on Core-Tex goes from two hands on the handrail to hands free and no use of the handrail.  In other words, going from the most help to the least help. This may lead to a misinterpretation of Core-Tex being "too advanced" and a missed opportunity to scale your balance progressions in a way that allows the user to be successful.
Core-Tex plays well with others.  With the increased interest and research around dual tasking of cognitive exercises plus motor challenges, Core-Tex is emerging as a clinical favorite for many reasons:
The study we are sharing with you in this post looked at strength training of 58 older women and 6 males under age 70 .  The comparison was strength training with vs. without the use of unstable surfaces.