TY - CHAP

T1 - Vibration training in Rehabilitation

AU - Schmidtbleicher, Dietmar

AU - Haas, Christian T.

AU - Turbanski, Stephan

N1 - Conference code: 23

PY - 2005

Y1 - 2005

N2 - Voluntary muscular activation is disturbed in both neurological disorders and orthopaedic injuries. Methods that enable bypassing this activation circle are of fundamental importance in order to set functional training stimuli. Besides electrical stimulation and robot supported gait the app'lication of vibration has become an alternative and complemental treatment method in rehabilitation. The most findings of physiological and motor control, effects of vibratory stimuli result from studies in sport science and basic neurophysiological research. Transferring the effects found in healthy subjects to the different areas of application in rehabilitation seems not possible in a linear way. This paper summarizes the different findings and discusses transfer possibilities and problems.

AB - Voluntary muscular activation is disturbed in both neurological disorders and orthopaedic injuries. Methods that enable bypassing this activation circle are of fundamental importance in order to set functional training stimuli. Besides electrical stimulation and robot supported gait the app'lication of vibration has become an alternative and complemental treatment method in rehabilitation. The most findings of physiological and motor control, effects of vibratory stimuli result from studies in sport science and basic neurophysiological research. Transferring the effects found in healthy subjects to the different areas of application in rehabilitation seems not possible in a linear way. This paper summarizes the different findings and discusses transfer possibilities and problems.

KW - Physical education and sports

KW - rehabilitation

KW - vibration

KW - neurothrophic factors

KW - SMA

M3 - Article in conference proceedings

T3 - ISBS - Conference Proceedings Archive

SP - 71

EP - 79

BT - Proceedings of XXIII International Symposium on Biomechanics in Sport

A2 - Wang, Quing

PB - International Society of Biomechanics in Sports

T2 - 23. International Symposium on Biomechanics in Sports - ISBS 2005

Y2 - 22 August 2005 through 27 August 2005

ER -