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Needak Rebounder Review
I purchased a Needak Rebounder in September, 2006, and haven't stopped jumping for joy! Ok, well, I'm actually bouncing gently for joy, but on the inside I'm jumping gleefully. All my friends and family members who've spent a few minutes on my Needak Rebounder have enjoyed it, and stepped off feeling tingly and more alive. (While they're on it, they giggle a lot...it's that much fun, makes you feel good - kinda like being a kid again.) Now for the physical results. I have fibromyalgia and a bulging disk, and get a 1-hour deep tissue therapeutic massage every month. After my first month of rebounding, my therapist noticed some improvement in my back. Not bad, considering I'd had a two-week bout of dizziness (unrelated to the rebounder) which kept me from doing longer, more frequent rebounding sessions. This past month, I got over the dizziness (thank goodness!) and have been doing two to three brief sessions per day, most days, of gentle rebounding. Last week I had my second massage since my rebounder arrived, and my massage therapist was very impressed with my improvement. "Whatever you're doing, keep doing it!", she said. She's been working on me for about three years, and for the first time was able to focus on some more long-standing issues, since the recurrent ones needed significantly less attention. So, that's the beginning of the tale. I'll post more as time goes by. Meanwhile, here are my comments about the quality of the Needak Rebounder: 1) Forget about those $20 mini-trampolines sold at sporting goods stores. 2) The Needak Rebounder is has an exponentially more resilient mat and higher quality springs, which make it a joint-friendly exercise platform. 3) The optional stabilizing bar is a little bit of a nuisance to add or remove, as the rubber feet must be removed from two legs so the attachment tubes welded to the stabilizing bar can be slipped onto the legs. You have to lift up one end of the rebounder while slipping the tubes onto the two legs. Then replace the rubber feet. It's easier to do if you have a helper. I decided to leave the stabilizing bar on my rebounder all the time, and I do use it a lot, so that's ok. But it does make moving the rebounder more difficult--you can't just turn it on its side and roll it, unless you have wide open spaces and/or hallways! 4) Some of the black paint has flaked off the stabilizing bar. I touched it up with a black permanent marker, and it looks fine. Hopefully just a bad lot, not an ongoing manufacturing problem, but it's something you should know about when making your decision in case it happens to you, too. (I haven't noticed any paint flaking off the rebounder legs, just the stabilizing bar.) I never called customer service to report this, but if I remember to, I'll let you know how they respond. 5) Overall, I'd say this is a well-made device which I will enjoy for many years. 6) Oh yes, I almost forgot...when the package arrived, the box was a bashed-up, ripped up mess that looked like it had fallen off a truck driving down the highway. Amazingly, the contents were absolutely fine. In spite of this--actually even more so because of this, I would recommend the Needak Rebounder as a very sturdy, well-made piece of exercise equipment. 7) (No, the paint flaking off the stabilizing bar wasn't from box abuse--the stabilizing bar pieces were separately wrapped within the main box, and that wrapper was a-ok.) 8) So, hop to it, and order yourself a NEEDAK® Soft Bounce™ Rebounder. :-)
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