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Effects of whole body vibration trainining on postural control in older people: A 1 year randomized controlled trial
Gait & Posture. Vol. 26, pp:309-316,2007
This trial investigated the effects of a 12 month Whole Body Vibration training program on postural control in healthy older adults. Two hundred and twenty people were randomly assigned to a Whole
Body Vibration group, a fitness group or a control group. Whole Body Vibration training may improve some aspects of postural control in community dwelling older individuals.








Recent articles explain: Acceleration Training™, also known as vibration training or Whole Body Vibration (WBV), dates as far back as ancient Greece, where a saw covered in cotton was used to transfer vibrations to a specific area of the body requiring treatment.
More recently, in the 1960s and 1970s, Russian cosmonauts used vibration training to combat the detrimental effects of micro-gravity on their muscles, connective tissue
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