Whole-body vibration effects in patients affected with Parkinson's disease: a systematic literature review
Year: 2011
Type: review
Study design: Systematic Review
Abstract: "Parkinson’s disease (PD) is a common progressive bradykinetic disorder, although ethiopathogenic is unknown, can be accurately diagnosed. However neuroprotectors treatment had been improve in the last decades, to date it’s far of handicap motor control in this illness, for this cause, it’s very necessary the addiction of other therapies as regular physical activity, in order to improve gait, balance, postural asymmetries or muscle power. The objective was to evaluate volume and methological quality by existing studies in relation to the topic, testing the effects produced by whole body vibration (WBV) in PD. An electronic search literature of the main medicine databases (AMED, The Cochrane Library, GoogleSchoolar, MEDLINE, PEDro, PubMed, SPORT discus, TRIP database and Web of Science) was performed to identify studies published up to 1 of June 2009 that investigated the effects of WBV exercises in patients with PD. A total of 5 studies were selected and analyzed by PD. Main outcome measurements were gait, posture, balance and health related quality of life. In general, there is a poor evidence of the benefices effects of WBV exercise in patients with Parkinson’s disease in outcome measurements. Future researches in this approach it is strongly necessary to answer it."
Authors: Borja del Pozo Cruz, José Carmelo Adsuar, José A. Parraça, Pedro R. Olivares, Eduar Herrera, Narcís Gusi
Institution: Universidad de Extremadura
Language: English
Subfield: Orthopedics and Sports Medicine
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W1598557146