To accurately interpret tactile information, the brain needs to have an accurate representation of the body to which to refer the sensations. Despite this, body representation has only recently been incorporated into the study of tactile perception. Here, we investigate whether distortions of body representation affect tactile sensations. We perceptually altered the length of the arm and the wi...

The aim of the study was to describe a case of type II diabetic peripheral neuropathic pain treated with whole body vibration therapy after a failed trial of conventional drugs and interventional pain management. A 71-year-old male had chronic diabetic peripheral neuropathic pain in his both feet for about 5 years. He tried he tried multiple pain medications and various interventional pain trea...

In this note a method of designing optimal vibration control based on Haar functions to control of bounce and pitch vibrations in engine-body vibration structure is presented. Utilizing properties of Haar functions, a computational method to find optimal vibration control for the engine-body system is developed. It is shown that the optimal state trajectories and optimal vibration control are c...

Hypothesis / aims of study Studies report that whole-body vibration (WBV) recruits about 95-97% of the muscle fibers, due to the oscillations generated by the vibrating platform, which can enable both surface and deep muscles. Lauper (2009) reports that the active vibration the muscles of the pelvic floor (PFM) which may improve your reflex stimulation and synergistic [1,2]. The objective of th...

Whole body vibration has been recently proposed as an exercise intervention because of its potential for increasing force generating capacity in the lower limbs. Its recent popularity is due to the combined effects on the neuromuscular and neuroendocrine systems. Preliminary results seem to recommend vibration exercise as a therapeutic approach for sarcopenia and possibly osteoporosis. This rev...

whole body vibration can deteriorate health bringing about or back pain or spinal column injury, resulted from continuing exposure to vibration. also exposure to vibration can cause disorder in central nervous system and adversely influence vascular and skeletal systems. in this research, the vibration of universal 650m tractor seat and its effect on the operator in five levels of engine speeds...

Supine human response and vibration-suppression during whole-body vibration." MS (Master of Science) thesis, ii ACKNOWLEDGMENTS I would like to acknowledge the U.S. Army Aberdeen Test Center (ATC) for the use of the inertial sensors, the USA Army Research Lab (USAARL) for providing the litter, Dr. David Wilder for providing the long spinal board and cervical collar, Mr. Jonathan DeShaw for assi...

BACKGROUND Work-related lower back disorders, which involve the lumbo-sacral region, as well as injuries of the lumbar section of the spine, are a serious and constantly growing problem in Europe. Whole body vibration is one of the major hazardous factors suspected of the development of back pain. MATERIAL AND METHODS The study covered a selected group of males, 98 farmers (aged 55.3 +/- 10.1...

Pathological shaking of the body or extremities is widely known and might occur at chronic diseases e.g. Parkinson. The rhythmical shaking, also known as tremor, can be such intense that extremities are flapping. Under certain circumstances, healthy people also show a shivering and shaking of their body. For example, humans start to shiver whenever it is too cold or if feelings such as stress o...