The Influence of Whole-Body Vibration on Creatine Kinase Activity and Jumping Performance in Young Basketball Players

Abstract

These findings suggest that WBV protocols with such characteristics may not cause excessive muscle damage and may partly explain why many WBV training studies have failed to elicit increases in strength performance.

Small and inconsistent effects of whole body vibration on athletic performance: a systematic review and meta-analysis

“…We excluded studies that used ‘recreational athletes’, ‘physical education students’, ‘undergraduate dance majors’, ‘sports club’, ‘amateur’, ‘non-competitive’ athletes, college level athletes in the USA lower than Division I, and ‘athletes’ without specifying the level of standard. We refer to a few of these excluded studies without aiming for a comprehensive list (Bertuzzi et al 2013 ; Cochrane and Booker 2014 ; Fachina et al 2013 ; Jones et al 2011 ; Reyes et al 2011 ; Ronnestad and Ellefsen 2011 ; Viru et al 2007 ; Wyon et al 2010 ). We excluded studies that did examine ‘competitive’ and/or ‘elite athletes’ but did not use a comparison control group or a control condition (Bosco et al 1999b ; Bunker et al 2011 ; Roberts et al 2009 ; Ronnestad et al 2012 , 2013 ), had no baseline data (Crow et al 2012 ; Dabbs et al 2010 ) or it was not possible to extract the means and standard deviations (Crow et al 2012 ; Jones 2014 ; Mester et al 2006 ), the athletes were outside the age range of 13–44 years (Kinser et al 2008 ; Mahieu et al 2006 ) to represent elite performance levels or measured features of athletic performance (i.e., gait kinematics) but not performance itself (Padulo et al 2014 ).…”