In 2014 a 48 year old patient came to my office suffering from recurrent bilateral hip dislocations.  He had previously undergone hip replacements that required revisions due to cobalt-chromium metallosis.  

 

One of the terrible secondary complications of metallosis due to a cobalt-chromium hip implant is that it causes tissue death, necrosis, around the hip joint.  Once the faulty hips were replaced he had very little living tissue surrounding the hip to keep the replacement stable.  This caused his hips to repeatedly, and painfully, dislocate.

 

When he finally made it to my office he was under strict precautions to only exercise in a closed kinetic chain position (feet on the ground) and in limited range of motion.  This proved to be a very challenging task.  I strengthened his hips using all of the common means of training (weights, cable columns, therapy bands, etc.) but all of it was insufficient.  His frequency of dislocations reduced a bit, but while under my care he never achieved the sort of stability that would provide long term, lasting benefit, that would allow him to return to his active lifestyle.

 

Frustrated with how I was unequipped to help him I did what all clinicians do, and filed it away in the back of my mind in case some solution would present its self in the future.  

 

A few months later I was working with a different client and cueing them on how to activate their glutes while in an upright standing position.  The particular phrase I chose was "screw your feet into the ground."  For some reason at that moment I thought of my unfortunate hip patient and began to think of ways that someone could "screw their feet into the ground" against resistance in order to induce some strengthening in the hip stabilizer muscles. 

 

After some failed attempts the Torque Trainer was created.  The novelty of a freely rotating platform that has the variability of interchangable resistance immediately stood out. Since constructing a rough working prototype the Torque Trainer has been used to:

- correct squat form 

- lunge form 

- improve pushup position and efficiency

- treat runners knee

- treat jumpers knee 

 

Considering the lack of any relevant simple to use and affordable exercise device for lower extremity strengthening on the market, the potential for the torque trainer is enormous and very exciting.  

 

Even as a rough prototype it is superior to all other rotating exercise devices due to its easily adjustable resistance capacity.  Finally users can stop "spinning in place" and finally get some real training done.  Training with good form that they can feel!

 

Available for immediate licensing or sale!

 

 

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