Sean Unwin is a Sydney-based executive with more than two decades of experience spanning financial management, capital structuring, and operational leadership. As managing director of FWTI, Sean Unwin provides CFO advisory services with a focus on capital sourcing, mergers and acquisitions, and international investment structures, working closely with investors across Australia and the United Arab Emirates. His background includes senior executive roles at property development and financial services organizations, where he oversaw large-scale expansion initiatives and complex financing arrangements.
Earlier in his career, Sean Unwin served as chief financial officer and later chief executive officer at RK Group, and held executive leadership positions with Geocon and LDM Global. A chartered accountant by training, he began his professional career as a senior auditor at Deloitte. Through his varied experience in finance, operations, and strategic growth, Sean Unwin has developed a strong interest in innovations that improve health, wellbeing, and long-term quality of life.
REVIVER Device Safely Tones and Conditions the Muscular System
With dementia having recently overtaken heart disease as Australia’s leading cause of death, new clinical therapies are needed. One innovator in the field is the Isodynamics REVIVER Clinic in Caringbah NSW. A team of physiologists, physiotherapists, dieticians, and chiropractors coordinates care and rehabilitation centered on REVIVER medical rehabilitation devices.
Looking much like a stationary running machine, patients stand on the REVIVER device, which offers multiple handholds through an open-barred metal structure extending above the head. The person stands on a circular base that rotates and provides an isometric workout.
An isometric movement is one that serves to tighten or contract a specific muscle or muscle group, without the affected joints changing angle, or the muscles changing length. Accomplished in a single position without movement, isometrics help maintain and build strength and endurance, and can be performed virtually anywhere. With gravity a convenient force that engages the muscles, the person takes a static position, as with a wall-sit or plank. As the position is held for an extended period, one’s core and joints gain stability.
Such exercises help those who have suffered an injury that makes certain movements painful gain strength during recovery. For example, if someone has a shoulder injury involving the rotator cuff, the isometric exercises stabilize the shoulder, while engaging its muscles. Another common use is among those with arthritis who do not have full, pain-free mobility in the joints. Through isometric exercises, they improve strength and progress toward more advanced strength training.
Beyond the joint and muscle benefits, researchers have found that isometric exercises provide a low-intensity way of getting a workout while controlling blood pressure. This is important because those with high blood pressure, who exercise at higher intensity, often register a potentially dangerous spike in blood pressure.
The REVIVER device guides the person, stationary on the balancing system, through supported motions that are controlled, radial, and wavelike. These recruiting reflex actions provide stimulation to regions of the body that have grown dormant with disuse. They serve to train the entire muscular system in a single, fluid motion (in contrast to most forms of assisted exercise). Another potential benefit involves stimulating neuroplasticity through a periodic displacement of vestibular fluids. These are the fluids found in the inner ear’s semicircular canals, which are essential in providing a sense of spatial orientation and balance.
The demonstrated benefits of the REVIVER on wellbeing and quality of life has resulted in a landmark clinical trial at Monash University and Alfred Hospital. Funded through the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) and the federal government, the study targets those with atypical Parkinson’s disease.
Another pilot clinic study in Sydney focuses on quantifying how much the REVIVER enables people, including those no longer able to perform exercise on their own, to workout past their unassisted capacity. Findings are that REVIVER users across an average of 26 days experience an average 22 percent boost in mobility (measured in “up and go” times). A significant percentage of patients no longer had the ability to walk unassisted. However, after two to 10 weeks of training, they regained this ability. In addition, they attained marked improvements in muscle tone, balance, and the ability to engage in complex activities such as swimming and walking up stairs.
About Sean Unwin
Sean Unwin is a Sydney-based financial executive and chartered accountant with extensive experience in capital structuring, property development finance, and strategic advisory services. As managing director of FWTI, he works with investors across Australia and the Middle East, designing tailored debt and equity solutions. His career includes senior leadership roles with Deloitte, Geocon, RK Group, and LDM Global, where he oversaw complex financial operations and international growth initiatives.
