Yannik Faes, Cornelia Rolli Salathé, Marina Luna Herlig, and Achim Elfering
Business Psychology, Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Lucerne, Switzerland,2Faculty ofPsychology, Distance University, Brig, Switzerland,3Department of Work and Organizational Psychology,University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland,4Department of Psychology, University of Fribourg, Fribourg, Switzerland
A good body-balance helps to prevent slips, trips and falls. New body-balanceinterventions must be explored, because effective methods to implement dailytraining are sparse. The purpose of the current study was to investigate acute effectsof side-alternating whole-body vibration (SS-WBV) training on musculoskeletal well-being, flexibility, body balance, and cognition. In this randomized controlled trial,participants were randomly allocated into a verum (8.5 Hz, SS-WBV, N= 28) or sham(6 Hz, SS-WBV, N= 27) condition. The training consisted of three SS-WBV series thatlasted one-minute each with two one-minute breaks in between. During the SS-WBV series, participants stood in the middle of the platform with slightly bent knees.During the breaks in between, participants could loosen up. Flexibility (modifiedfingertip-to-floor method), balance (modified Star Excursion Balance Test), andcognitive interference (Stroop Color Word Test) were tested before and after theexercise. Also, musculoskeletal well-being, muscle relaxation, sense of flexibility,sense of balance, and surefootedness were assessed in a questionnaire before andafter the exercise. Musculoskeletal well-being was significantly increased only afterverum. Also, muscle relaxation was significantly higher only after verum. TheFlexibility-Test showed significant improvement after both conditions. Accordingly,sense of flexibility was significantly increased after both conditions. The Balance-Testshowed significant improvement after verum, and after sham. Accordingly, increasedsense of balance was significant after both conditions. However, surefootedness wassignificantly higher only after verum. The Stroop-Test showed significantimprovement only after verum. The current study shows that one SS-WBV trainingsession increases musculoskeletal well-being, flexibility, body balance and cognition.The abundance of improvements on a light and portable platform has great influenceon the practicability of training in daily life, aiming to prevent slip trips and falls at work.
KEYWORDS
whole-body vibration (WBV), musculoskeletal, flexibility, balance, cognition, inhibition, stroop-color-word interference task, SLIP trip and fall accidents
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