Faes, Yannik; Rolli Salathé, Cornelia; Herlig, Marina Luna; Elfering, Achim (2023). Beyond physiology: Acute effects of side-alternating whole-body vibration on well-being, flexibility, balance, and cognition using a light and portable platform A randomized controlled trial. Frontiers in sports and active living, 5, p. 1090119. Frontiers 10.3389/fspor.2023.1090119
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A good body-balance helps to prevent slips, trips and falls. New body-balance interventions must be explored, because effective methods to implement daily training are sparse. The purpose of the current study was to investigate acute effects of side-alternating whole-body vibration (SS-WBV) training on musculoskeletal well-being, flexibility, body balance, and cognition. In this randomized controlled trial, participants were randomly allocated into a verum (8.5 Hz, SS-WBV, N = 28) or sham (6 Hz, SS-WBV, N = 27) condition. The training consisted of three SS-WBV series that lasted one-minute each with two one-minute breaks in between. During the SS-WBV series, participants stood in the middle of the platform with slightly bent knees. During the breaks in between, participants could loosen up. Flexibility (modified fingertip-to-floor method), balance (modified Star Excursion Balance Test), and cognitive interference (Stroop Color Word Test) were tested before and after the exercise. Also, musculoskeletal well-being, muscle relaxation, sense of flexibility, sense of balance, and surefootedness were assessed in a questionnaire before and after the exercise. Musculoskeletal well-being was significantly increased only after verum. Also, muscle relaxation was significantly higher only after verum. The Flexibility-Test showed significant improvement after both conditions. Accordingly, sense of flexibility was significantly increased after both conditions. The Balance-Test showed significant improvement after verum, and after sham. Accordingly, increased sense of balance was significant after both conditions. However, surefootedness was significantly higher only after verum. The Stroop-Test showed significant improvement only after verum. The current study shows that one SS-WBV training session increases musculoskeletal well-being, flexibility, body balance and cognition. The abundance of improvements on a light and portable platform has great influence on the practicability of training in daily life, aiming to prevent slip trips and falls at work.
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Journal Article (Original Article) |
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Division/Institute: |
07 Faculty of Human Sciences > Institute of Psychology > Work and Organisational Psychology |
UniBE Contributor: |
Faes, Yannik, Rolli Salathé, Cornelia, Elfering, Achim |
Subjects: |
100 Philosophy > 150 Psychology 300 Social sciences, sociology & anthropology |
ISSN: |
2624-9367 |
Publisher: |
Frontiers |
Language: |
English |
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Pubmed Import |
Date Deposited: |
17 Feb 2023 15:05 |
Last Modified: |
02 Mar 2023 23:37 |
Publisher DOI: |
10.3389/fspor.2023.1090119 |
PubMed ID: |
36793620 |
Uncontrolled Keywords: |
SLIP trip and fall accidents balance cognition flexibility inhibition musculoskeletal stroop-color-word interference task whole-body vibration (WBV) |
BORIS DOI: |
10.48350/178894 |
URI: |
https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/178894 |
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