Localized muscle vibration in the treatment of motor impairment and spasticity in post-stroke patients: a systematic review.

CONCLUSIONS: LMV may be a feasible and safe tool to be integrated into traditional and conventional neurorehabilitation programs for post-stroke patients to reduce spasticity. Analysis of the available clinical trials do not allow us to indicate vibration therapy as effective in functional motor recovery, despite some studies showed encouraging results. Further studies, with larger size of homogeneous patients and with a shared methodology are needed to produce more reliable data especially on the lower limb.
PMID: 33111513 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: European Journal of Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine - October 28, 2020 Category: Rehabilitation Authors: Avvantaggiato C, Casale R, Cinone N, Facciorusso S, Turitto A, Stuppiello L, Picelli A, Ranieri M, Intiso D, Fiore P, Ciritella C, Santamato A Tags: Eur J Phys Rehabil Med Source Type: research