Health Benefits of Whole Body Vibration Plate Exercise Machines RSS

In these articles, “SBF” refers to “Skin Blood Flow” “that short duration vibration alone significantly increases SBF; doubling mean SBF for a minimum of 10 minutes following intervention. The emerging therapeutic modality of WBV as a passive intervention appears to increase SBF in individuals with healthy microcirculation.” Lohman et al., “The Effect of Whole Body Vibration on Lower Extremity Skin Blood Flow in Normal Subjects.” “Five minutes of 30 Hz or 50 Hz vibration produced significant increases in SBF.” Maloney-Hinds, Petrofsky, and Zimmerman, “The Effect of 30 Hz vs. 50 Hz Passive Vibration and Duration of Vibration on Skin Blood...

“A direct positive effect of WBV on calcium metabolism and bone mineral density (BMD) has been clearly demonstrated. Rubin et al. carried on a RCT comparing the effects of low intensity vibration (LIV) (10 minutes twice a day) with those of an inactive placebo plate in a group of postmenopausal women. A decrease of 2% BMD was observed in the control group, whereas a 2.17% relative BMD increase was reported in the study group.” Cerciello et al., “Clinical Applications of Vibration Therapy in Orthopaedic Practice.” “In conclusion, the current work found a resistive vibration exercise countermeasure impeded loss of bone...

“This study concluded that WBV therapy can improve functional ability and fatigue levels and can also help to preserve bone strength in the hip in females with RA.” “Treating Rheumatoid Arthritis with Whole Body Vibration Therapy.” “What a vibration trainer does is improve the patient’s blood circulation and increase the effectiveness of the lymphatic drainage system, which removes harmful toxins from the body. This will by no means cure rheumatoid arthritis, but it has been known to reduce joint pain and inflammation. Osteoarthritis can be caused by a number of factors, and if caused by calcium deposits, the condition may...

“Short training sessions using controlled whole body vibration 3 times a week for 6 weeks improved gait, body balance, motor capacity, and self-reported QOL in elderly nursing home residents” Bruyere, Olivier, Marc-Antoine Wuidart, Elio Di Palma, Margaret Gourlay, Olivier Ethgen, Florent Richy, and Jean-Yves Reginster. “Controlled Whole Body Vibration to Decrease Fall Risk and Improve Health-Related Quality of Life of Nursing Home Residents.” Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation 86, no. 2 (February 1, 2005): 303–7. doi:10.1016/j.apmr.2004.05.019. “Based on this review, WBV has proven to have more beneficial effects on balance, stability and gait, strength, and physical and physiological properties...