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  • Titel: Stochastic Resonance Whole-Body Vibration Improves Postural Control in Health Care Professionals : A Worksite Randomized Controlled Trial : A Worksite Randomized Controlled Trial
  • Beteiligte: Elfering, Achim; Schade, Volker; Stoecklin, Lukas; Baur, Simone; Burger, Christian; Radlinger, Lorenz
  • Erschienen: SAGE Publications, 2014
  • Erschienen in: Workplace Health & Safety
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • DOI: 10.1177/216507991406200503
  • ISSN: 2165-0799; 2165-0969
  • Schlagwörter: Nursing (miscellaneous) ; Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
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  • Beschreibung: <jats:p> Slip, trip, and fall injuries are frequent among health care workers. Stochastic resonance whole-body vibration training was tested to improve postural control. Participants included 124 employees of a Swiss university hospital. The randomized controlled trial included an experimental group given 8 weeks of training and a control group with no intervention. In both groups, postural control was assessed as mediolateral sway on a force plate before and after the 8-week trial. Mediolateral sway was significantly decreased by stochastic resonance whole-body vibration training in the experimental group but not in the control group that received no training ( p &lt; .05). Stochastic resonance whole-body vibration training is an option in the primary prevention of balance-related injury at work. </jats:p>