Wholebody Vibration Research

The Whole Body Vibration research page is a collaboration of independent studies conducted through the past decades. Each document below is in Adobe PDF format and you must have Adobe acrobat reader installed to view the whole body vibration research documents.

• Acute physiological effects of exhaustive whole-body vibration exercise in man.
• Adaptive responses of human skeletal muscle to vibration exposure.
• The influence of whole-body vibration on jumping performance.
• Acute changes in neuromuscular excitability after exhaustive whole body vibration exercise as compared to exhaustion by squatting exercise.
• Hormonal responses to whole-body vibration in men.
• The influence of whole-body vibration on the mechanical behavior of skeletal muscle.
• Strength increase after whole-body vibration compared with resistance training.
• Treatment of Chronic Lower Back Pain with Lumbar Extension and Whole-Body Vibration Exercise: A Randomized Controlled Trial.
• New trends in training science: the use of vibrations for enhancing performance.
• Oxygen Uptake in Whole-Body Vibration Exercise: Influence of Vibration Frequency, Amplitude, and External Load.
• Oxygen uptake during whole-body vibration exercise: comparison with squatting as a slow voluntary movement.
• Effect of whole body vibration on muscular performance, balance, and bone.
• Effect of a vibration exposure on muscular performance and body balance. Randomized cross-over study
• Effect of 4-month vertical whole body vibration on performance and balance.
• Influence of brief daily tendon vibration on rat soleus muscle in non-weight bearing situation.
• Whole body vibration exercise: are vibrations good for you? (Abstract)

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