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 >

  • Res Sports Med. 2005 Jul-Sep;13(3):243-56.

    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 >