Whole-body Vibration and Manual Ability

Body Weight Clinical Trial

Official title:

The Acute Effects of Whole-Body Vibration on Manual Ability Performance: A Randomized Controlled Trial

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT03289689
• Other study ID #: URJC
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• First received: July 13, 2017
• Last updated: November 26, 2017
• Start date: July 1, 2017
• Est. completion date: September 10, 2017

Study information

• Verified date: November 2017
• Source: Universidad Rey Juan Carlos
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

Purpose: To evaluate the short-term effects of whole-body vibration (WBV), using reciprocating plate technique, on manual ability performance in healthy younger.

Material and methods: 38 healthy young volunteers were randomized to WBV group (N=19; 6 men, 13 women; mean age 21, 3.8yrs) or control group (N=19; 6 men, 13 women; mean age 20.5, 3.5yrs). The subjects in the WBV group performed one series of five consecutive repetitions of 60 sec unsynchronised WBV (Zeptoring, Scisen GmbH, Germany; 4 Hz, amplitude 3mm) with a 1-min pause between administrations, three times a week. The controls did not receive any training. Both groups were evaluated at baseline and after intervention, in the Rey Juan Carlos University´s Gait Analysis Laboratory. Four outcome measures of Purdue Pegboard test (PPT): preferred hand (PH), non-preferred hand (NPH), both hands (BH) and assembly (A) was performed baseline and 5 min after intervention.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 38
• Est. completion date: September 10, 2017
• Est. primary completion date: August 31, 2017
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: All
• Age group: 18 Years to 30 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion criteria:

• Healthy subjects aged between 18 and 30 years.

Exclusion criteria:

• Contraindication for WBV: pregnancy, recent fractures, malignancies, kidney stones, cardiac pacemaker, infectious disease or recent thromboembolic.

• Subjects with any musculoskeletal o neurological disorders that affected their hands.

• Individuals already treated with WBV were excluded.

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Body Weight
• Motor Activity
• Vibration

Intervention

Device:
• Whole-body vibration (WBV)
Whole-body vibration (WBV) is a novel neuromuscular therapeutic intervention that has recently been developed since in the mid-1960s. Hagbart and Eklund showed in human experiments that a reflex muscle contraction can result as a consequence of applying vibrations to the muscular-tendon system. The subjects stand on a platform that generates stochastic vibrations at a frequency between 1-12.5 Hz.

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Spain	Universidad Rey Juan Carlos	Alcorcón	Madrid

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Universidad Rey Juan Carlos

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Spain, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Purdue Pegboard test (change)	Change in Purdue Pegboard test. This tool evaluates the fine dexterity	Baseline, immediately after intervention and one month after the intervention