Trial reportBMJ case reports2011
Effect of whole body vibration on stereotypy of young children with autism.
Trial report in BMJ case reports, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.
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7 citing papers in PubMed, 15 citations in OpenAlex.
- Whole body vibration added to treatment as usual is effective in adolescents with depression: a partly randomized, three-armed clinical trial in inpatients.European child & adolescent psychiatry · 2018Trial
- Postural and Muscular Responses to a Novel Multisensory Relaxation System in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Pilot Feasibility Study.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Progress in exercise interventions for autism spectrum disorder: exploring underlying mechanisms.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Review
- Weighted Vest Combined With Vibrotactile Stimulations Decrease the Sympathetic Activity: A Repeated Measures Study.Health science reports · 2024Article
- Effect of vibrostimulatory wearable technology on stereotyped behaviour in a child with autism and intellectual disability.BMJ case reports · 2022Article
- Immunological Effects of an Add-On Physical Exercise Therapy in Depressed Adolescents and Its Interplay with Depression Severity.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
- Echolalia from a transdiagnostic perspective.Autism & developmental language impairmentsReview
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Abstract
The objective of this case was report on the effects of acute whole body vibration exposure on stereotyped behaviour of young children with autism. Four young boys (ages 4-5 years) diagnosed with autism participated. The children were participants in an early intensive behavioural intervention clinic and during downtimes stood on a whole body vibration platform with the machine turned off (control condition) and on (treatment condition) for three to four, 30 s periods (frequency=28 Hz; amplitude 0.97 mm). The outcome measure was frequency of stereotypic behaviour, which was evaluated for 5 min before and after standing on the vibration platform. The results revealed that whole body vibration was not able to uniformly decrease the rates of all types of stereotypy; that is, some stereotypy decreased while others were unchanged. Subjectively, the children enjoyed whole body vibration which was easy to integrate into the behavioural programme.
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