Table 3.
Subjective calf muscle tone and change in resting shear wave speed after WBV of MG muscle.
| WBV frequency | Subjective tone | SWS longitudinal |
SWS transverse |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pre WBV | Post WBV | Pre WBV | Post WBV | ||
| 0 | −0.4 ± 1.2 | 2.14 ± 0.3 | 2.17 ± 0.3 | 2.02 ± 0.4 | 1.93 ± 0.2 |
| 6 | +0.9 ± 1.0* | 2.29 ± 0.7 | 2.18 ± 0.3 | 2.21 ± 0.4 | 2.09 ± 0.4 |
| 12 | +1.6 ± 0.7* | 2.14 ± 0.3 | 2.07 ± 0.4 | 2.41 ± 1.4 | 1.92 ± 0.3 |
| 24 | +1.4 ± 1.2* | 2.19 ± 0.3 | 2.40 ± 0.2# | 1.97 ± 0.4 | 2.01 ± 0.3 |
WBV; whole-body vibration, MG; medial gastrocnemius. *Significant changes from control condition (p < 0.05). # Significant change between pre and post WBV intervention.