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Controlled whole body vibration to decrease fall risk and improve health-related quality of life of nursing home residents.

Olivier Bruyere·Marc-Antoine Wuidart·Elio Di Palma·Margaret Gourlay·Olivier Ethgen·Florent Richy·Jean-Yves Reginster
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OBJECTIVE: To investigate the effects of whole body vibration in the elderly. DESIGN: Randomized controlled trial. SETTING: Nursing home. PARTICIPANTS: Forty-two elderly volunteers. INTERVENTIONS: Six-week vibration intervention plus physical therapy (PT) (n=22) or PT alone (n=20). MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: We assessed gait and body balance using the Tinetti test (maximum scores of 12 for gait, 16 for body balance, 28 for global score), motor capacity using the Timed Up & Go (TUG) test, and health-related quality of life (HRQOL) using the Medical Outcomes Study 36-Item Short-Form Health Survey (SF-36). RESULTS: After 6 weeks, the vibration intervention group improved by a mean +/- standard deviation of 2.4+/-2.3 points on the gait score compared with no score change in the control group ( P <.001). The intervention group improved by 3.5+/-2.1 points on the body balance score compared with a decrease of 0.3+/-1.2 points in the control group ( P <.001). TUG test time decreased by 11.0+/-8.6 seconds in the treated group compared with an increase of 2.6+/-8.8 seconds in the control group ( P <.001). The intervention group had significantly greater improvements from baseline on 8 of 9 items on the SF-36 compared with the control group. CONCLUSIONS: Controlled whole body vibration can improve elements of fall risk and HRQOL in elderly patients.

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Olivier Bruyere, Marc-Antoine Wuidart, Elio Di Palma, Margaret Gourlay, Olivier Ethgen, Florent Richy, Jean-Yves Reginster. 2005. Controlled whole body vibration to decrease fall risk and improve health-related quality of life of nursing home residents.. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apmr.2004.05.019

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