Vibration Training and Muscle Strength Development

Wingate Institute

Status: Completed

Conditions: Muscle Strength; Disabilities of the Arm, Shoulder and Hand

Treatments: Other: Vibration resistance training

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01139606

0034-10-HYMC

Details and patient eligibility

About

Introduction:

Vibration has been used to enhance muscle strength development during resistance training.

Aim:

To assess the effect of adding vibration to a regular resistance training program, using free weights, on muscle strength and everyday functioning of upper limbs in untrained adults

Methods:

60 healthy untrained adults, 30-65 yrs, will divide into two groups: experiment and control. Training program will include 24 sessions, over a course of 8 weeks. The experiment group will use a 1 kg vibrating weights and the control group will use a standard 1 kg free weights. Every session will include 10-15 min of 3-5 standard resistant exercises for upper limbs. Each subject will perform an Isokinetic evaluation of muscular performance, for upper limbs, in 3 occasions: before starting the program, immediately after completing the 8-weeks training program and 4 weeks afterwards, to check the chronic effect of each training regime. Each subject will complete a DASH (Disabilities of the arm, shoulder and hand) questionnaire at 4 occasions- as mentioned above and one more time, when completing the first 4 weeks of the training program, to reject any development of negative effects of the training program, such as pain or inflammation of the joints .

Enrollment: 20 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 30 to 65 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• healthy adults, ages 30-65
• not participating in resistance training for upper limbs regularly

Exclusion criteria

• unbalanced hypertension
• cardiovascular disfunction or disease
• pain and or/ inflammation of the neck, shoulders and arms
• pregnant women

Trial design

Primary purpose: Basic Science

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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20 participants in 1 patient group

Vibration trainig

Experimental group

Treatment:

Other: Vibration resistance training