Here's what the fitness community has been saying about Pulse:
The Pulse Device's Localized Vibration Technology is used by weightlifters, personal trainers, physical therapists, and even professional NFL and NBA teams.
Our Localized Vibration Technology sends micro vibrations through your muscle - up to 120 times a second.
By combining this vibration stimulus with attentional cues, our technology activates more muscles, increases strength, improves circulation, and enhances proprioceptive function.
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Enhance Mind-Muscle Connection
The Pulse Device emits vibrations that mimic a pulsation or a tapping feeling onto your skin and muscles. This repetitively draws your attention back to the muscle and drastically improves your focus and proprioception (muscle sense). This concept is based off an old training/rehabilitation technique called muscle tapping, where your spotter gently taps on your muscle while you're performing an exercise in order to increase engagement of said muscle. These attentional cues have been proven to increase muscle activity and even hypertrophy.
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The Pulse Device utilizes low-frequency vibrations that have been shown to help you recruit up to 97% of the muscle fibers in a target muscle compared to a standard workout that recruits a maximum of 40% of muscle fibers in a target muscle. This occurs because your muscle is forced to try and stabilize itself while it vibrates, which leads to that same muscle working substantially harder while you lift. This facilitates stronger contractions that lead to more results.
Repair Muscle Imbalances
By providing a cue that trains your brain to know exactly where specific muscles are, the Pulse Device helps users repair even their most stubborn muscle imbalances. These imbalances can be a result of performance differences (ie. using one side more than another), injury, or neurological defect. Whether you have a lagging muscle that just won't seem to grow, or you've had an injury that has prevented you from isolating a certain muscle, we got you.
Not feeling the right muscle working? This is due to secondary muscles and joints picking up the slack during your workout. By placing the Pulse Device onto a specific muscle, your attention is drawn away from these secondary groups and you're able to target and isolate the primary muscle that you actually intended on working during your lift. This ensures that you'll feel your workout in the right place and not put unnecessary stress on adjacent areas.
Increase Strength
The low-frequency vibrations used by the Pulse Device have been proven to increase strength by up to 21% during isolated exercises. Please note that the Pulse Device is not meant to be used during compound lifts where your body is supposed to be utilizing a variety of different muscles at the same time.
The low-frequency vibrations used by the Pulse Device have also been shown to drastically improve blood flow. This can potentially help decrease recovery time and reduce delayed onset muscle soreness (DOMS).
Improve Flexibility & Range of Motion
Low-frequency vibration stimulates stretch receptors called muscle spindles. By doing so, the Pulse Device is able to increase your flexibility and range of motion so that you can move and feel better than ever.
Frequently Asked Questions
Here are some of the most common questions we get:
How does the Pulse Device work?
The Pulse Device is a localized vibration training and therapy device that’s used to improve muscular performance, recovery, and rehab. It’s often used alongside exercise, short movements, or physical therapy & rehab protocols. Local vibration activates sensory receptors (mechanoreceptors) in the skin and muscles. It feels extremely gentle and comfortable. The vibrations are controlled via app and can provide an alternative sensory input that may help "retrain" the central nervous system and allow you to target and activate specific areas.
Here are some of the ways it can help;
1. Improved proprioception: The vibrations stimulate sensory receptors, which can help improve the awareness of where the body is in space (proprioception), aiding movement control and coordination.
2. Activation of dormant pathways: Although the direct pathway might be impaired, vibration therapy can stimulate other sensory pathways that might assist in muscle activation, even if the original signal is not fully functional.
3. Muscle activation: The vibrations can also help the muscles themselves engage more effectively by gently stimulating muscle fibers.
4. Neuroplasticity: By repeatedly stimulating these nerves and muscles, localized vibration might encourage the brain and nervous system to create new pathways or strengthen existing ones, potentially improving motor function over time.
5. Muscular relief: Gentle vibration stimuli can enhance blood circulation and provide relief for harsh pain, tightness, and stiffness, which can often lead to improvements in things like motor function and mobility.
What is local vibration and why use it?
Local vibration is a gentle vibrational stimulus that is directed onto targeted areas of the body to improve your mind-body connection. By improving this connection, you're able to enhance your natural processes so that you can perform better, recover faster, and live better in the short and long term. Whether you want to retrain your body, build stronger muscles, enhance your mobility, decrease pain, or just level up your physicality, you should use the Pulse Device.
Can the Pulse Device help me?
The Pulse Device can help everyone from fitness enthusiasts and pro athletes, to neuro patients and practitioners. Whether you want to get stronger, retrain your mind and body, experience gentle relief, improve motor function, or just level up your wellness, the Pulse Device can help you.
How do I use my Pulse Device?
How often do I use the Pulse Device?
Our device is meant to be used 3-5x a week during short periods of time between 15-60 minutes while resting, moving, exercising, or during physical therapy and rehab protocols. Many customers report significant improvements in relief, strength, and activation even with short use times. With that said, some users choose to utilize their Pulse Devices multiple times throughout the day, while others use their devices sporadically for specific activities.
How do I know where to place the Pulse Device?
We have comprehensive placement diagrams directly in our app in the Performance section as well as within certain Rehab settings. We also have a wide variety of placement pictures on our website here. You can also find placement diagrams and pictures in our Pulse Routines section, which provides other helpful information and protocols about how to use our device for a wide range of applications.
How is the Pulse Device worn?
The Pulse Device can be worn in multiple ways. The primary way is by using our medical grade silicone gel adhesives that come with every bundle. You can use these adhesives to stick the device(s) anywhere on your body. You can also wear our device using the straps that come with every bundle. These straps can be used with or without the adhesive and help to hold the device down on your arms and legs. These can be great if you intend on performing movements or exercises with our device on. The last way you can wear our device is by putting it under compression wear or tight clothing that allows it to stay in place.
What’s the difference between the Pulse Device and electric stimulators (EMS, TENS, etc.)?
Local vibration therapy and electric muscle stimulation (EMS) both aim to enhance performance or improve relief, but they achieve it through completely different mechanisms. The Pulse Device uses gentle mechanical vibrations to stimulate the skin and muscles to potentially improve muscle strength, activation, flexibility, and motor function, while EMS uses electrical impulses to directly contract muscles and cause strong involuntary contractions. The Pulse Device's goal is to help you improve your mind-body connection by providing gentle repetitive stimulation that may retrain your central nervous system, where as electric stimulation bypasses the mind-muscle connection and focuses on triggering automatic movements that will help you then and there. Many EMS users report discomfort due to the strong sense of stimulation and involuntary contractions, where as local vibration users report pain-free and comfortable activation and relief. EMS must be used carefully and should not be applied unless you've done your research or consulted a physician, where as local vibration therapy and training is considered to be a highly safe and effective alternative that can have short and long term effects in a gentle manner.
How do I adjust the vibration setting?
Adjusting the vibration settings is quick and easy using a smartphone or tablet device. Check out our How to Get Started with the Pulse Device video which showcases how to use and adjust the vibration settings via the Pulse Device app.
Will the Pulse Device help me in the long term or only when using it?
Many Pulse users have reported lasting improvements in mobility, activation, strength, pain relief, and more, even when they aren't using the device. Check out some of our customer testimonials detailing their long term improvements here.
Where can I download the Pulse Device app?
Can I use the Pulse Device during my workout?
Absolutely! The Pulse Device has specific performance settings designed to be used during isolated exercises where you're trying to target and activate a specific muscle. These can be great for improving your mind-muscle connection and building stronger muscle wherever you need it most. If you want to use these settings, click on the Performance section in our app and then select the muscle that you're training.
Can I use the Pulse Device during my workout?
Absolutely! The Pulse Device has specific performance settings designed to be used during isolated exercises where you're trying to target and activate a specific muscle. These can be great for improving your mind-muscle connection and building stronger muscle wherever you need it most. If you want to use these settings, click on the Performance section in our app and then select the muscle that you're training.
Can I use the Pulse Device in conjunction with my rehabilitation?
Absolutely! The Pulse Device uses local vibrations that have been shown to improve muscle strength, motor function, proprioception, activation, circulation, and more. It's great to utilize in conjunction with your rehabilitation protocols at-home or in practice so that you can live and feel better than ever before. We have specific Rehab settings directly on the Pulse Device app built for a wide range of rehab applications.
Can I use the Pulse Device for relief?
Absolutely! The Pulse Device has specific recovery settings designed for improving blood circulation, pain relief, soreness relief, stiffness relief, and more. These settings can be used at home, at work, or really anywhere where you need it. To use these settings, open up the Pulse Device app and click on Recovery and select the specific type of relief you're looking for.