Undesirable and Unpleasant Adverse Side Effects of the Whole Body Vibration Exercises

Vertical platforms and side alternating platforms are widely used to produce mechanical vibrations that will be transmitted to the human body (Rauch et al., 2010). Biomechanical parameters related to the mechanical vibration must be considered when a subject is submitted to the whole body vibration (WBV) exercise, such as frequency, peak-to-peak displacement and peak acceleration. The spatio-temporal context and biophysical parameters, as the work and rest time, total time of the exposition, number of bouts, periodicity in the week, position of the subject in the platform must be also controlled.