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ArticleJournal of clinical medicine research2013

The effect of whole body vibration exposure on muscle function in children with cystic fibrosis: a pilot efficacy trial.

Kaitlin O'Keefe, Rhonda Orr, Peite Huang, Hiran Selvadurai, Peter Cooper, Craig Frank Munns, Maria A Fiatarone Singh

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Article in Journal of clinical medicine research, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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3citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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3 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 18 citations in OpenAlex.

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  3. Effect of whole body vibration training on bone mineral density and bone quality in adolescents with Down syndrome: a randomized controlled trial.Osteoporosis international : a journal established as result of cooperation between the European Foundation for Osteoporosis and the National Osteoporosis Foundation of the USA · 2015
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7 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Kaitlin O'KeefeExercise, Health and Performance, Faculty Research Group, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Sydney, Australia.
Rhonda Orr
Peite Huang
Hiran Selvadurai
Peter Cooper
Craig Frank Munns
Maria A Fiatarone Singh
University of Sydney · AU

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundTo examine the effects of whole body vibration (WBV) exposure on muscle function in children with Cystic Fibrosis (CF). Non-randomised controlled cross-over trial.

methodsThe setting was home-based WBV exposure. The participants were children (8 - 15 years) with CF (n = 7).

interventionparticipants served as their own controls for the first four weeks (usual care), then underwent four weeks of parentally-supervised home-based WBV exposure followed by four weeks washout (usual care). The WBV exposure consisted of 20 - 30 minutes of intermittent (1 min vibration:1 min rest) exposure on a Galileo platform (20 - 22Hz, 1 mm amplitude) 3 days/week. The primary outcome measures of absolute and relative lower body (leg extension (LE), leg press (LP)), upper body (chess press (CP)) strength and power, and power were measured at baseline, and weeks 4, 8 and 12. Secondary exploratory outcomes were cardiorespiratory fitness, pulmonary function and health-related quality of life.

resultsSix participants completed the training without adverse events. Muscle function changes following WBV exposure were not statistically significant. However, moderate-to-large relative effect sizes (ES) favouring WBV were evident for leg extension strength (ES = 0.66 (-0.50, 1.82)), LP relative strength (ES = 0.92 (-0.27, 2.11)), leg press peak power (ES = 0.78 (-0.50, 2.07)) and CMJ height (ES = 0.60 (-0.56 to 1.76)).

conclusionsThe results from this first controlled trial indicate that WBV may be a potentially effective exercise modality to safely increase leg strength and explosive power in children with CF. Potentially clinically relevant changes support continued investigation of the efficacy, mechanism and feasibility of this intervention in future large-scale studies.

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ChildrenCystic FibrosisMuscle functionMuscle powerVibration

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PMID23671546
PMCPMC3651071
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