Supercharge Your ACL Prehab Exercises With The Volta X

Welcome back to the Accelerate ACL Prehab Series. Previous posts have covered:

• The importance of ACL prehab and the goals you should strive to hit in prehab
• Different types of exercises you can expect to be included in a quality ACL prehab program
• The exact exercises Accelerate ACL trainers combine with the Volta X to generate best-in-class ACL prehab results

But if you're like most who read these blogs, you aren't looking to improve at a reasonable rate, right? You're looking to beat the status quo and get moving again as quickly as possible.

And if you’re honest with yourself, you’re probably thinking something like: “I don’t want a standard recovery. I want to come back quicker, stronger, and with a better understanding of my body than before I tore my ACL.”

If so, you're in the right place. At the core of this program is a revolutionary recovery technology called the Volta X (or Neuro-Bio-Electric-Stimulator).

Simply put, the Volta X is at the foundation of how we train. Its direct-current design supports more precise neuromuscular activation in both prehab and post-op phases, allowing athletes to train with greater clarity, intention, and confidence throughout their recovery.

What Is The Volta X?

The Volta X is a powerful electrical stimulation device that is used to re-educate muscles to work properly after ACL injuries and surgery.

It is FDA-cleared for the following uses:

• Muscle activation
• Neuromuscular re-education
• Improved local circulation
• Maintaining or improving range of motion

The Volta X is unlike any other kind of electrical stimulator you've used before. Accelerate ACL clients often refer to it as electrical stimulation "on steroids." They report that it feels 10 times more powerful than anything they have experienced in the past.

Direct Current vs. Alternating Current

The device is unique to other stimulators on the market because it uses a pulsed direct current (DC), rather than alternating current (AC).

The market is flooded with alternating current stimulators — they are cheap to manufacture. Unfortunately, as is the case with most things in life, cheap often means less effective (or even not effective at all).

When alternating current electrical stimulation devices are applied at a high enough level to be effective, they cause the muscles to co-contract or "lock up." This effect drastically diminishes the ability of AC stimulators to re-educate muscles to work properly again after ACL injuries and ACL surgery.

To put that in perspective, the typical Accelerate ACL client is normally scoring the same score 12 weeks after surgery that the average person does not score until 24 weeks after surgery.

How Is The Volta X Used In ACL Prehab?

Immediately after an ACL injury, the nervous system makes changes to your body's movement to decrease stress on the knee. It:

• Restricts use of the quadriceps muscle (the large muscle on the front of your thigh)
• Restricts range of motion
• Begins to re-organize movement to compensate for the injured knee

These changes may be beneficial in the short term — they ensure that the knee does not suffer further injury. However, the changes at the neuromuscular level are so dramatic that they last far longer than necessary.

Much of the ACL prehab and post-op recovery process are focused on undoing the changes that occur at the neuromuscular level (or at least they should be).

The unique effects of the Volta X and direct current electrical stimulation allow Accelerate ACL clients to combine high levels of stimulation with exercise to:

• "Re-activate" the quadriceps
• Increase range of motion
• Re-educate the body to move without compensation

Training With The Volta X

During ACL prehab, you can think of using the Volta X as the most effective and safe means available to workout.

The electrical stimulation is used to target the quadriceps and other specific weak spots while you perform exercises. At high levels of stimulation, the device will actually cause your body to reveal its compensation patterns or imbalances in an obvious way.

Accelerate ACL trainers work with you to help you understand how your body is compensating and correct the pattern. By doing so, the nervous system re-learns to move without compensation and utilize the muscles properly.

Training the muscles in this way decreases the onset of muscle atrophy and increases range of motion.

What Results Can I Expect In Accelerate ACL Prehab?

In general, Accelerate ACL clients are expected to see about 25% improvement with each 20-25 minute workout on the Volta X.

It should be noted that these kinds of results don't come easily. It takes a high degree of focus and ability to push through the intense discomfort of the electrical stimulation to achieve accelerated results in ACL recovery.

These are just three of many successful Accelerate ACL prehab stories utilizing the Volta X. See how athletes like Saquon Barkley and Lina Miller used the program to achieve extraordinary results. For those who are willing to put in the work, there is nothing else out there that can help you achieve ACL prehab and ACL recovery results like the Volta X.