Category: Parkinsons
Whole body vibration therapy with exercise enhances motor function and improves quality of life in Parkinson’s disease
Thursday, June 23, 2016
O.K. Gruder, D.Y. Edmonston, G.Q. Barr, C.G. Maitland (Tallahassee, FL, USA); Meeting: 20th International Congress;
Abstract Number: 2021
Objective: To evaluate the short term effects of whole body vibration and exercise in patients >
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Effects of random whole-body vibration on postural control in Parkinson’s disease.
Turbanski S, Haas CT, Schmidtbleicher D, Friedrich A, Duisberg P.Source
Institute of Sport Sciences, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University, Frankfurt/Main, Germany. turbanski@sport.uni-frankfurt.de
Abstract
We investigated spontaneous effects of random whole-body vibration (rWBV) on postural control in Parkinsonian subjects. Effects were examined in biomechanical tests from a >