Feasibility and acceptability of using jumping mechanography to detect early components of sarcopenia in community-dwelling older women.
OBJECTIVE: To determine the feasibility and acceptability of using peak power and force, measured by jumping mechanography (JM), to det...
Experience with jumping mechanography in children with cerebral palsy.
OBJECTIVES: Jumping mechanography provides robust motor function indicators among healthy children. The aim of the study was to assess ...
Mechanical basis of bone strength: influence of bone material, bone structure and muscle action.
This review summarises current understanding of how bone is sculpted through adaptive processes, designed to meet the mechanical challe...
Alleviation of Motor Impairments in Patients with Cerebral Palsy: Acute Effects of Whole-body Vibration on Stretch Reflex Response, Voluntary Muscle Activation and Mobility.
INTRODUCTION: Individuals suffering from cerebral palsy (CP) often have involuntary, reflex-evoked muscle activity resulting in spastic...
Whole Body Vibration Training Lowers Serum Creatine Kinase Levels in Boys with Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy
We aimed to describe the effects of whole body vibration training on serum creatine kinase and motor function in two brothers with Duch...
Cardiopulmonary response during whole-body vibration training in patients with severe COPD.
Several studies in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) have shown that whole-body vibration training (WBVT) has ...
Changes in muscle cross-sectional area, muscle force, and jump performance during 6 weeks of progressive whole-body vibration combined with progressive, high intensity resistance training.
OBJECTIVES: We hypothesized that progressive whole-body vibration (WBV) superimposed to progressive high intensity resistance training ...
Immediate Effect of a Single Session of Whole Body Vibration on Spasticity in Children With Cerebral Palsy.
OBJECTIVE: To investigate the immediate effect of a single session of whole body vibration (WBV) on lower extremity spasticity in chil...
WHOLE-BODY VIBRATION EXERCISE IMPROVES FUNCTIONAL PARAMETERS IN PATIENTS WITH OSTEOGENESIS IMPERFECTA: A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW WITH A SUITABLE APPROACH.
BACKGROUND: Patients with osteogenesis imperfecta (OI) have abnormal bone modelling and resorption. The bone tissue adaptation and resp...
Vibration-related extrusion of capillary blood from the calf musculature depends upon directions of vibration of the leg and of the gravity vector
Purpose:
In this study, we investigated the effects of vibration of the whole lower leg on the content and the oxygenation of hemoglobi...