Platform accelerations of three different whole-body vibration devices and the transmission of vertical vibrations to the lower limbs

Medical Engineering and Physics

Volumn 31, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 937-944

  Pel, J J M ^a   Bagheri, J ^a   van Dam, L M ^a   van den Berg Emons, H J G ^a   Horemans, H L D ^a   Stam, H J ^a   van der Steen, J ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Acceleration; Balance; Squat position; Vibration frequency; Whole body vibration

Indexed keywords

3-DIMENSIONAL; BALANCE; BODY WEIGHT; GALILEO; HORIZONTAL PLANES; KNEE FLEXIONS; LOWER LIMB; MECHANICAL BEHAVIOUR; SINE-WAVE; SQUAT POSITION; VERTICAL ACCELERATIONS; VERTICAL DIRECTION; VERTICAL VIBRATIONS; VIBRATION FREQUENCY; WHOLE-BODY VIBRATION; WHOLE-BODY VIBRATIONS;

VIBRATIONS (MECHANICAL);

ACCELERATION;

ACCELERATION; ANKLE; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; BODY EQUILIBRIUM; BODY WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXERCISE; HIP; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; KNEE; KNEE FUNCTION; LEG; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VIBRATION SENSE; WEIGHT BEARING; WHOLE BODY VIBRATION;

ACCELERATION; ADULT; EXERCISE THERAPY; HUMANS; LOWER EXTREMITY; MECHANICAL PROCESSES; POSTURE; VIBRATION; WEIGHT-BEARING;

EID: 70349438727     PISSN: 13504533     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.medengphy.2009.05.005     Document Type: Article

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