Acute Effect of Whole-Body Vibration at Optimal Frequency on Muscle Power Output of the Lower Limbs in Older Women

Vibrations produced in oscillating/vibratory platform generate whole body vibration (WBV) exercises, which are important in sports, as well as in treating diseases, promoting rehabilitation, and improving the quality of life. WBV exercises relevantly increase the muscle strength, muscle power, and the bone mineral density, as well as improving the postural control, the balance, and the gait. An important number of publications are found in the PubMed database with the keyword “flexibility” and eight of the analyzed papers involving WBV and flexibility reached a level of evidence II. The biggest distance between the third finger of the hand to the floor (DBTFF) of a patient with metabolic syndrome (MS) was found before the first session and was considered to be 100%. The percentages to the other measurements in the different sessions were determined to be related to the 100%. It is possible to see an immediate improvement after each session with a decrease of the %DBTFF. As the presence of MS is associated with poorer physical performance, a simple and safe protocol using WBV exercises promoted an improvement of the flexibility in a patient with MS.

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Effect of a combination of whole body vibration exercise and squat training on body balance, muscle power, and walking ability in the elderly

Therapeutics and Clinical Risk Management ◽

10.2147/tcrm.s57806 ◽

2014 ◽

pp. 131 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Jun Iwamoto ◽

Tomohiro Osugi ◽

Michio Yamazaki ◽

Masayuki Takakuwa

Keyword(s):

Muscle Power ◽

Whole Body Vibration ◽

The Elderly ◽

Whole Body ◽

Walking Ability ◽

Body Balance ◽

Body Vibration ◽

Vibration Exercise

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THE ACUTE EFFECT OF WHOLE BODY VIBRATION TRAINING ON FLEXIBILITY AND EXPLOSIVE STRENGTH OF YOUNG GYMNASTS

Biology of Sport ◽

10.5604/20831862.1111852 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 31 (3) ◽

pp. 233-237 ◽

Cited By ~ 8

Author(s):

George Dallas ◽

Paschalis Kirialanis ◽

Vassilis Mellos

Keyword(s):

Whole Body Vibration ◽

Acute Effect ◽

Whole Body ◽

Body Vibration ◽

Explosive Strength ◽

Vibration Training ◽

Whole Body Vibration Training

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Occupational Vibration in Urban Bus and Influence on Driver’s Lower Limbs

U Porto Journal of Engineering ◽

10.24840/2183-6493_004.001_0005 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 4 (1) ◽

pp. 56-66

Author(s):

M. Cvetkovic ◽

J. Santos Baptista ◽

M. A. Pires Vaz

Keyword(s):

Whole Body Vibration ◽

Working Environment ◽

Lower Limbs ◽

Whole Body ◽

Body Vibration ◽

Prisma Statement ◽

Physical Changes ◽

Iso 2631 ◽

The Impact ◽

Whole Body Vibrations

The whole-body vibration occurs in many occupational activities, promoting discomfort in the working environment and inducing a variety of psycho – physical changes where consequences as a permanent dysfunction of certain parts of the organism may occur. The main goal of this short systematic review is finding the articles with the most reliable results relating whole-body vibrations to buses and, to compare them with the results of drivers’ lower limbs musculoskeletal disease which occurs as a consequence of many year exposure. PRISMA Statement Methodology was used and thereby 27 Scientific Journals and 25 Index - Database were searched through where 3996 works were found, of which 24 were included in this paper. As a leading standard for analysis of the whole-body vibration the ISO 2631 – 1 is used, while in some papers as an additional standard the ISO 2631-5 is also used for the sake of better understanding the vibrations. Furthermore, the European Directive 2002/44 / EC is included where a daily action exposure to the whole-body vibrations is exactly deter-mined. All the results presented in the paper were compared with the aforesaid standards. After having searched the databases, papers that deal with research of the impact of the vibration on the driver’s lower limbs did not contain any information’s on the described problem.

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