Short-term effects of vibration therapy on motor impairments in Parkinson's disease

King, Lauren; Almeida, Quincy J.; Ahonen, Heidi

doi:10.3233/nre-2009-0528

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“…If WBV will be proven to have long-term beneficial effects on cognition, WBV treatment might be a suitable approach to contribute in achieving this goal, in particular, because it is inexpensive, non-invasive, easy to apply and safe (especially when applied passively). For example, studies on the musculoskeletal system demonstrated that WBV can be applied safely on children, older individuals and individuals with neurological and psychiatric conditions including individuals with movement disorders [52]–[57].…”

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Good Vibrations – Effects of Whole Body Vibration on Attention in Healthy Individuals and Individuals with ADHD

et al. 2014

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ObjectivesMost of the current treatment strategies of ADHD are associated with a number of disadvantages which strengthen the need for alternative or additional approaches for the treatment of ADHD. In this respect, Whole Body Vibration (WBV) might be interesting as it was found to have beneficial effects on a variety of physiological measures. The present study explored the effects of WBV on attention of healthy individuals and adults diagnosed with ADHD.MethodsEighty-three healthy individuals and seventeen adults diagnosed with ADHD participated in the study. WBV treatment was applied passively, while participants were sitting on a chair which was mounted on a vibrating platform. A repeated measure design was employed in order to explore potential effects of WBV treatment on attention within subjects. Attention (i.e. inhibitory control) was measured with a color-word interference paradigm.ResultsA period of two minutes of WBV treatment had significant beneficial effects of small to medium size on attention of both healthy individuals and adults with ADHD. The effect of WBV treatment on attention did not differ significantly between groups.ConclusionsWBV was demonstrated to improve cognitive performance of healthy individuals as well as of individuals with ADHD. WBV treatment is relatively inexpensive and easy to apply and might therefore be of potential relevance for clinical use. The application of WBV treatment as a cognitive enhancement strategy and as a potential treatment of cognitive impairments is discussed.

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Good Vibrations – Effects of Whole Body Vibration on Attention in Healthy Individuals and Individuals with ADHD

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“…The use of peripheral vibration to treat symptoms of movement disorders is not a novel concept and was first realised with Charcot's "Vibrating Chair" in 1982(Charcot, 1982. Following this there have been a number of studies investigating the clinical efficacy of peripheral vibration, particularly of the whole body (Arias, Chouza, Vivas, & Cudeiro, 2009;Chouza, Arias, Viñas, & Cudeiro, 2011;Ebersbach, Edler, Kaufhold, & Wissel, 2008;Haas, Turbanski, Kessler, & Schmidtbleicher, 2006;Kapur, Stebbins, & Goetz, 2012;King, Almeida, & Ahonen, 2009); however, the results have been inconsistent due to differences in the vibration protocol used, the muscles targeted, the behaviours being measured and the patient groups studied. In particular, there have been limited studies that have shown an improvement in behavioural performance in healthy controls following vibration, which is likely due to healthy controls performing at ceiling on the behavioural tasks used.…”

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High‐frequency peripheral vibration decreases completion time on a number of motor tasks

Macerollo

Palmer

Foltynie

et al. 2018

Eur J of Neuroscience

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A recent theoretical account of motor control proposes that modulation of afferent information plays a role in affecting how readily we can move. Increasing the estimate of uncertainty surrounding the afferent input is a necessary step in being able to move. It has been proposed that an inability to modulate the gain of this sensory information underlies the cardinal symptoms of Parkinson's disease (PD). We aimed to test this theory by modulating the uncertainty of the proprioceptive signal using high‐frequency peripheral vibration, to determine the subsequent effect on motor performance. We investigated if this peripheral stimulus might modulate oscillatory activity over the sensorimotor cortex in order to understand the mechanism by which peripheral vibration can change motor performance. We found that 80 Hz peripheral vibration applied to the right wrist of a total of 54 healthy human participants reproducibly improved performance across four separate randomised experiments on a number of motor control tasks (nine‐hole peg task, box and block test, reaction time task and finger tapping). Improved performance on all motor tasks (except the amplitude of finger tapping) was also seen for a sample of 18PD patients ON medication. EEG data investigating the effect of vibration on oscillatory activity revealed a significant decrease in beta power (15–30 Hz) over the contralateral sensorimotor cortex at the onset and offset of 80 Hz vibration. This finding is consistent with a novel theoretical account of motor initiation, namely that modulating uncertainty of the proprioceptive afferent signal improves motor performance potentially by gating the incoming sensory signal and allowing for top‐down proprioceptive predictions.

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“…The review study by Lam et al conducted to investigate the effect of whole body vibration on balance, mobility and falls in older adults concluded that vibration may be effective in improving relatively basic balance ability and mobility among older adults, particularly frailer ones (16). Also, the study by King et al carried out to assess the efficacy of vibration in motor performance of patients with Parkinson disease indicated an improvement in all symptoms, motor control at the time of assessment, and specifically, significant justifiable decrease in rigidity and tremor, and significant increase in gait speed (17). Moreover, in the study by Park et al conducted to survey the effect of whole body vibration on chronic knee osteoarthritis concluded that vibration reduced pain intensity and increased strength of the right quadriceps and dynamic balance performance, and vibration was superior only in pain reduction and similarly effective in strengthening of the quadriceps muscle and balance improvement (18).…”

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The effect of vibration on the severity of restless legs syndrome in hemodialysis patients

Hosseini¹,

Kazemi²,

Azimpour³

2016

J Renal Inj Prev

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Introduction: The restless legs syndrome (RLS) is a neurological disorder in patients undergoing hemodialysis. This syndrome causes individual’s disturbed rest, discomfort, and stress, and secondarily to weakened functioning and disturbance in occupational activities and familial life. Objectives: The present study aimed at investigate the effect of vibration on the severity of the manifestation of symptoms of RLS in hemodialysis patients. Patients and Methods: This is an interventional before-after study conducted on 80 patients with RLS in hemodialysis wards of Yazd hospitals. The samples were selected randomly and intervention was performed on the patients as vibration for 10 minutes three times per week during 4 succeeding weeks. The questionnaire of severity of RLS was completed before the study and at the last day of intervention before and after vibration. The data were analyzed with SPSS 23 using descriptive statistics and paired t test (P<0.05). Results: Our findings showed that most patients were at the moderate level of severity of symptoms before (68.8%) and after (78.8%) intervention and there was a significant difference in the mean score of RLS between before (18.99) and after (12.82) intervention (P=0.001). Conclusion: Based on the results of this study, it can be concluded that vibration decreases the severity of symptoms of RLS in hemodialysis patients. Hence, it is recommended that vibration be used as a cost-effective and safe procedure to improve the symptoms of RLS in this group of patients.

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Short-term effects of vibration therapy on motor impairments in Parkinson's disease

Cited by 72 publications

References 15 publications

Good Vibrations – Effects of Whole Body Vibration on Attention in Healthy Individuals and Individuals with ADHD

Good Vibrations – Effects of Whole Body Vibration on Attention in Healthy Individuals and Individuals with ADHD

High‐frequency peripheral vibration decreases completion time on a number of motor tasks

The effect of vibration on the severity of restless legs syndrome in hemodialysis patients

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