ROUND BALANCE WOODEN BOARD - Round wooden balance board

The Balance Board code 1011V is the classic, durable and well-finished wooden proprioceptive board. It belongs to the so-called unstable bases, for coordination and strength exercises and in particular for ankle rehabilitation.

Dimensions Ø 400 mm, height 60 mm
Weight 1.4 kg

They are proprioceptive boards, or Freeman boards if you prefer, those which, thanks to a hemisphere applied under the board itself, cause instability. Balance boards are used for both rehabilitation and prevention, practices that are mainly aimed at athletes, whether amateurs or professionals. How is proprioception stimulated? First of all, we must remember what the proprioceptors do. They send messages to the central nervous system to provide feedback information, signalling to the brain the movements the body is making. Balance Boards are therefore used to recover (or strengthen) the ankle and knee joints, restoring the motor patterns that ensure static and dynamic balance. This pattern of neuromotor stimulation is also extremely important in an elderly person, who can improve many muscular and nervous faculties with the use of the board.

Here are a few exercises listed on the basis of difficulty:

• While seated, one foot on the board to mobilise the ankle (very easy)
• One foot on the ground and one on the board to mobilise the ankle (easy)
• Both feet on the tablet to try to maintain balance (medium)
• One foot on the tablet (difficult)
• Two feet on the tablet with eyes closed (very difficult)
• As above with the operator disturbing the subject with small pushes (very difficult)

Obviously, the difficulty should be measured on the subject being trained and in relation to where he or she is in the re-education process. In the case of a healthy subject, the last three proposals can be used in combination with the Balance Board, for prevention and improvement of proprioception.

See also:

cod. 2909 Balance Pad
cod. 1012 Square wooden balance board
cod. 9208 Tatami flooring eva wood colour