Does the Circulation Booster Work?
September 29th, 2011 | 
The Circulation Booster is a product that is claimed to help improve the circulation to the foot and lower limb. However, those claims have been questioned by at least one advertising standards authority because of the lack of evidence to support the claims that are made for it. The Circulation Booster is a device that the feet rest on while sitting that provides a small stimulus to get the muscles to contract. This contraction stimulates the muscles to co0ntract and activates the venous muscle pump to return blood back to the heart. This is no difference that the same process that happens during walking. The research evidence does support this improvement in venous return. It does not improve the arterial supply down to the foot. There are a number of comments that walking would be better than the Circulation Booster and will be better for the arterial circulation and general health.
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Posted in General Podiatry
Dear Sir/ madam,
Please refer our website for new research just released. London South Bank University have now independently proven that using The Circulation Booster resulted in a significant decrease of the deoxygenated haemoglobin (HHb) concentration levels in both calf and foot superficial tissues and significant increase in oxygen saturation (TOI) in the muscle tissue of both foot and calf.
Kind regards
Roseanna Penny
HIGH TECH HEALTH LTD
Why was there no control group in that study? Why only healthy subjects used? The study does not show what is claimed.
This may explain the whole situation:
http://www.circulationbooster.com.au/
RETRACTION
Advertisements for the Circulation Booster, Circulation Booster Mobile and Ultralieve products, which we published on this website, should not have been published.
In the advertisements we unlawfully made claims that the products had benefits that were inconsistent with their intended purpose and that the products were endorsed by healthcare professionals. We also unlawfully made claims in relation to therapeutic goods not included on the ARTG and unlawfully made reference to serious forms of diseases, conditions, ailments and defects without approval to do so.
A complaint about the advertisement was recently upheld by the Complaints Resolution Panel. We provided no evidence to support these claims, and the Panel found that the claims were unlawful, misleading, and unverified and breached the Therapeutic Goods Advertising Code.
The panel therefore requested that High Tech Health Pty Ltd publish this retraction.
The full text of the Panel’s determination can be found at: http://www.tgacrp.com.au/complaints
I don’t understand – does this ruling apply to circulation booster in the UK? The retraction seems serious. Any response from high tech health yet – I saw the comment on the 17th Jan. I presume they can’t make those claims in the UK too – very confusing
Yes, that ruling mentioned above was about the Circulation Booster advertising claims in Australia. However, the UK authorities have made a similar ruling about their advertising:
http://www.asa.org.uk/ASA-action/Adjudications/2011/6/High-Tech-Health-Ltd/TF_ADJ_50690.aspx
thank you for clarifying that regarding circulation booster.
it seems strange that you make claims to help people with poor circulation when circulation booster is tested on healthy individuals. I would of presumed you would have a double blind study where sufferers of poor circulation would have their circulation measured at the femoral artery to see any volume increase in blood. circulation booster needs to prove this and then they could really improve patients live