I am a fifty-seven-year-old tradesman. After a life- time of hard physical work, I had come to expect arthritic pain as a normal part of my workday. My ankles, knees, hips, and lower back jabbed at me constantly, and my response had been to tough it out. It was a losing proposition, and it appeared that hip replacement was inevitable.

When a friend offered to let me try her vibration machine, the skeptic in me thought ‘yeah, right.’ That was weeks ago. This morning, I scampered down the stairs like a teenager. The remarkable thing is that I felt relief after the first five-minute session. Now, I simply stand on my WBV machine for five minutes each morning and head off to work with a happy song in my heart. The pain has gone. Imagine that.