DISCOVERY

How this study began

​”Eighteen years ago while driving, I witnessed an elderly man fall on the sidewalk. I pulled over to see if he was all right. Three days after my conversation with this man, I realized how easy it would have been to solve his “fall problem”.  Basically, he had lost the natural push off in his walk because of the atrophy of his Gastrocnemius Muscles and normal ankle-foot push off when walking…due to a lifetime of sedentary living.”

For Ron, that random occurrence was the beginning of six years of research and development and eight progressive prototypes, resulting in the Total Body Reset as we know it today.

Ron discovered that by building two standing platforms that together challenged a person’s balance on a “micro level”, the patient’s neurological and muscular organization, throughout the Central Nervous System, would make micro-adjustments in order to remain “balanced”. This brought him to a new level of understanding the re-calibration of one’s entire movement-coordination system he previously had not known existed .

It was in Ron’s fourth year of research and development that he began to see results at a level he had never encountered in his decades of patient care and rehabilitation work.  Given his deep interest and understanding of body mechanics, combined with his 50 years of internal martial arts and yoga studies, he was led to discover a very subtle movement pattern in the body which facilitates the re-calibration and coordination of the human movement system.

Through Ron’s innate ability to refine this discovered pattern, he was able to build it into a device that would provide a deep level of relief through the recalibration of the body’s coordination and balance system to all who use it. This new discovery is called the Total Body Reset/TBR.

After years of witnessing The Total Body Reset providing balance improvement and pain reduction with so many different kinds of diagnosed conditions, he came to understand that to do this, the TBR must be broadening and deepening the Proprioceptive Communication throughout the body starting in one’s feet and working up to the brain .  This revolutionary theory has been confirmed at UCSF.

 Before this discovery, all of the therapy and training equipment known to him would challenge the patient with fast and strong movements (ie. the Bosu Ball and the Balance Board).  Those devices are excellent training for a healthy body, but once you have any level of neurological impairment in the body’s balance-coordination, any fast or strong movement is perceived as a threat. This can be overwhelming to an already weakened nervous system causing it to shut down and revert to it’s old adaptive patterns, rather than allowing, accepting and achieving new-patterns of learning. The Total Body Reset works in a totally different way. Most importantly, it simply helps the user to heal themselves at their own pace and without surgery or drugs.

Using very subtle movement that is responsive to the individual’s inherent imbalances has been shown to allow the patient’s movement-coordination to self-correct and recalibrate at a level that to our knowledge has never been demonstrated before.

Based on our research, it is reasonable to assume that this improved coordination and increased movement stability from using the TBR will reduce the daily wear and tear to our spinal discs, joints and ligaments. It is from these changes to our bodies that we begin to soften the degenerative problems of aging, These life changing results from using the TBR will allow each and every one of us -of all ages - to gracefully live a more functional and healthy life going forward.

Research


Our peer-reviewed study at the Ergonomics Department of Colorado State University “has documented statistically significant improvements in the performance of sit-to-stand, and both stair-ascent and stair-descent in a group of older adults with perceived balance and functional impairment, while standing and walking. These improvements were immediately following ~15 min of prescribed use of the TBR. The statistical findings in these tests were P < 0.05, (indicating less than a 5% chance that the improvements occurred due to random effects). Therefore, we are confident that appropriate use of the TBR with its accompanying training progression is effective for combating deficits in balance and physical function.”
– Raoul F, Reiser II, PhD, CSCS, FASC  

Click here to read the Peer Reviewed Research