Vibration platform training in women at risk for symptomatic knee osteoarthritis.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To determine whether a platform exercise program with vibration is more effective than platform exercise alone for improving lower limb muscle strength and power in women ages 45 to 60 with risk factors for knee osteoarthritis (OA).

Design

Randomized, controlled study.

Setting

Academic center.

Participants

A total of 48 women ages 45-60 years with risk factors for knee OA (a history of knee injury or surgery or body mass index ≥25 kg/m(2)).

Interventions

Subjects were randomly assigned to a twice-weekly lower limb exercise program (quarter squat, posterolateral leg lifts, calf raises, step-ups, and lunges) on either a vertically vibrating platform (35 Hz, 2 mm) or a nonvibrating platform.

Main outcome measurements

Change in isokinetic qu

SUBMITTER: Segal NA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3838794 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature