Acta Mechanica Slovaca 2018, 22(1):46-53 | DOI: 10.21496/ams.2018.008

Effects of Single Whole-Body Vibration Training Unit in Elderly and Child Patients with Neurological Disorders

Jaroslav Majerník1, Miriam Dziaková2
1 Department of Medical Informatics, Faculty of Medicine, Trieda SNP 1, 040 11 Košice, Slovak Republic
2 Louis Pasteur University Hospital in Košice, Trieda SNP 1, 040 11 Košice, Slovak Republic

The positive effects of whole-body vibration techniques have already been discussed in many scientific papers all around the world. In addition, the training units integrated into therapeutic and rehabilitation procedures have been considered as beneficial and powerful methods used to improve either mobility or physical status of human beings. Some of the benefits that were already published include enhanced muscular strength, physical power, bone density or blood circulation. However, there is still a lack of evidence proving the significant effects of whole-body vibration in patients, e.g. those with neurological disorders. Therefore, the main objective of our study was to investigate immediate, although short time effect of single whole-body vibration training unit on quality of patients' gait kinematics. Because of the nature of neurological disorders and their negative impacts on patients and families and society too, we decided to analyse this effect in two high risk groups of patients. The first one consisted of elderly patients and the second one of children, both suffering from certain type of neurological disorder. The analysis was based on comparison of individual changes in gait parameters obtained before and after application of whole-body vibration.

Keywords: human motion analysis; kinematics; whole-body vibration; rehabilitation; patients; neurological disorders.

Published: March 15, 2018  Show citation

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Majerník, J., & Dziaková, M. (2018). Effects of Single Whole-Body Vibration Training Unit in Elderly and Child Patients with Neurological Disorders. Acta Mechanica Slovaca, 22(1), 46-53. doi: 10.21496/ams.2018.008
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