ReviewJournal of clinical medicine2023
The Effect of Additional Whole-Body Vibration on Musculoskeletal System in Children with Cerebral Palsy: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Randomized Clinical Trials.
Review in Journal of clinical medicine, 2023. 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, 9 citations in OpenAlex.
- Effectiveness of Combined Whole-Body Vibration and Intensive Therapeutic Exercise on Functional Capacity in Children with Cerebral Palsy: A Randomized Controlled Trial.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2025Trial
- The Impact of Whole Body Vibration on Muscle Tone, and Sensory Motor Function in Children with Spastic Diplegic Cerebral Palsy.Journal of multidisciplinary healthcare · 2025Trial
- Acute Effects of a Week of Stochastic-Random Whole-Body Vibration on Manual Ability Performance in Healthy Subjects: A Preliminary Pilot Study.BioMed research international · 2025Trial
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- Effect of mechanical vibration on peripheral blood flow in laboratory exposure: a narrative review.International journal of occupational medicine and environmental health · 2026Review
- Exploring the Impact of Muscle Vibration Therapy in Neurologic Rehabilitation: A Systematic Review.Archives of rehabilitation research and clinical translation · 2025Review
- Effect of a Rehabilitation Program Including Home-Based Vibration-Assisted Therapy on Gait Parameters in Children with Cerebral Palsy.Journal of musculoskeletal & neuronal interactions · 2024Article
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10 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.
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Abstract
Nowadays, whole-body vibration (WBV) has become increasingly popular as an additional therapy in the intervention of patients with cerebral palsy (CP). However, the impact of WBV remains a subject of debate. Consequently, a systematic review and meta-analysis were undertaken to evaluate the effects of WBV on the musculoskeletal system in children with CP. Randomized controlled trials (RCTs) were sought in the most frequent databases. The intervention studied was WBV combined with conventional physiotherapy (PT) compared with conventional PT as the control; the main outcomes were changes in the musculoskeletal system. Weighted mean differences with 95%CIs were calculated. A random-effects model was applied, and the publication bias was checked using funnel plots. On the basis of the inclusion and exclusion criteria, 16 articles, including 414 patients, were considered in the final analysis. The improvement in walking performance (speed and step length) was statistically significant (
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