I recently had a Dept Chair at a university tell me about a professor at another university that he frequently recommends potential doctoral students to say this professor can “talk a little strength training” but wasn’t on my level.

And vibration as an exercise modality is so new to people. I think it’s even worse than the science of strength training was back when I went to grad school.

Time will tell I guess.

IT CANT WORK , ITS BASED ON FLAWED SCIENCE SO STOP WASTING OUR TIME.

And the good Dr. Sue Broadbent…

“It’s not going to help you lose weight or increase your metabolic rate ”

Meanwhile …..

The Childrens Hospital in Westmead , Australia have installed a Vibration Platform to help curb obesity in adolescents who have developed insulin resistance , a common precursor to Type 2 Diabetes.

Do readers have any idea how much background research , solid work and combined ethics consent was needed for this to happen.

Note: This has happened despite people likes Sue and Sals best attempts to stop this technology from helping people.

I will still be seeking a public retraction from Dr. Broadbent as evidence mounts she mislead the public.

That tesing is, of course, quite dated now but I was interested.

The results are positive which is good to see. Even the comment that effects are largely untested reads positively unlike the flack that WBV has been getting in some writings lately – often from people who wont even try it for themselves.

http://bjsm.bmj.com/cgi/content/abstract/39/11/860

You can register free to get a full text PDF–
This is a very limited study with only 3 interventions in total compared: cycling, WBV, and Control.

This is exactly what they have to say:

“What is already known–Whole body vibration (WBV) has proven to be effective in improving strength, power, and bone density. This novel training intervention is becoming popular for conditioning, rehabilitation, and general health. However, the acute effects of WBV on power, strength, and flexibility are still largely
untested.”

“What this study adds–This study confirms that power and flexibility increase after acute WBV exposure and that acute WBV may accelerate the warm up effect. Additionally, muscle groups less proportionally exposed to vibration do not exhibit physiological changes that potentiate muscular performance.”

Try contacting Darryl Cochrane, Lecturer Sport Coaching, Dept of Management, Massey University, Palmerston North.

D.Cochrane@massey.ac.nz

I believe the research you refer to by Massey University was done on a Galileo sport and Gallileo top machine and was overseen by Darryl. The initial project was completed as a team research project in 2003 and in summary “with no differences in results”.

At the time of contacting Darryl Cochrane (April 28 2005), Darryl had just had another study accepted for publication in the British Journal of Sports Medicine – the results of which I was told were ‘exciting’ however were under embargo and could not be released to the public.

Hope this helps
Kate

(a) Not enough education by the testers on what to do or look for.

(b) Inducing already healthy athletes to such a test is dangerous. An extended downhill run could cause a career threatening injury.

NOTE: … the injuries would be varied depending on previous runners history and gate. Which will give random results.

Why not use an infrared scan to find similar injuries from Physio practices. This way matching pre-existing injuries could be monotored and helped.

I recieved a letter from Dr Broadbent’s boss. Things will be put right.

* Was the Massey university testing actually done? The results were due out end of March, 07, so that’s right now.

* Results of the testing relate only to the specific vibration platform used in the tests – a Vibrogym platform set to vibrate at between 30 and 50Hz moving up and down either 2mm or 5mm each cycle and to the particularity of the test ie what is being tested.

When I read about this test (a few months ago) it looked interesting until I read that the testing involved 30 volunteers deliberately inducing muscle injury by running downhill on a treadmill and then the treatment group will use WBV for 5 consecutive days of 15 minute sessions while the control group does nothing. Blood testing will be done to determine the degree of inflamation decrease over the 5 days.

I’ve wondered why consecutive days of WBV are being used when at least one days rest between sessions is generally recommended.

I also wondered why injury was being induced rather than using healthy people using the machine but the newspaper article seems to answer this..ACC are maybe funding this.

Why has Dr Broadbent made comments before the results are known and why comment on areas outside of the scope of the Massey uni tests.

Also when I was looking at aspects of WBV I found a mention of Massey uni (NZ) doing testing in 2003 using a Gallileo system 26 Hz, displacement = 10 mm, over 5 weeks, 3 x week, athletes to be retested on vertical jumps, sprints, and muscle power three days
after the last WBVT. I can’t find any results of this study so if anyone knows of it, I’m interested.

So please keep visiting.

By definition these people fear the education of the public.