Table 1.
Results of Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) before and after WBV. Neuromuscular data are normalized to t1±standard deviations (in %). Joint excursions are demonstrated in (°) with the neutral positions being defined as 90° in the ankle and 0° in the knee joint (extension). Significant differences in pairwise comparison to t1 (p<0.05) are marked with *; significant adaptations over time are demonstrated by rmANOVA with P<0.05 and intraclass correlation coefficients (ICCs) are illustrated in the last column.
| Protocol 1 | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TMS | t0 | t1 | t2 | t3 | t4 | t5 | rm ANOVA | ICCs (2 items t0-t1) |
| Amplitude MEPSOL | 0.98±0.19 | 1 | 1.15±0.30* | 1.22±0.32* | 1.15±0.35 | 1.20±0.30* | 0.003 | 0.983 |
| Amplitude MEPGM | 1.01±0.19 | 1 | 1.32±0.62 | 1.09±0.35 | 1.08±0.36 | 1.22±0.47 | 0.074 | 0.984 |
| CSPSOL | 1.04±0.18 | 1 | 1.42±0.75 | 1.09±0.44 | 1.18±0.35 | 1.02±0.43 | 0.152 | 0.910 |
| Latency MEPSOL (ms) | 36±5 | 36±5 | 36±5 | 36±5 | 36±5 | 36±5 | 0.881 | 0.977 |
| Latency MEPGM (ms) | 34±4 | 34±5 | 34±5 | 34±4 | 34±4 | 34±4 | 0.910 | 0.963 |
| Background EMG (100ms prior stimulus) | ICCs (6 items t0-t5) | |||||||
| SOL | 0.96±0.13 | 1 | 1.02±0.15 | 1.05±0.20 | 1.04±0.18 | 1.07±0.13 | 0.988 | |
| GM | 1.02±0.14 | 1 | 1.06±0.50 | 0.98±0.23 | 1.02±0.32 | 0.99±0.38 | 0.976 | |
| TA | 1.01±0.06 | 1 | 1.00±0.10 | 1.03±0.15 | 1.02±0.14 | 1.05±0.14 | 0.996 | |
| Goniometry | ICCs (6 items t0-t5) | |||||||
| Ankle Joint angle (°) | 92.45±9.36 | 92.62±9.51 | 93.76±9.16 | 94.46±9.46 | 94.03±9.20 | 93.11±8.93 | 0.996 | |
| Knee Joint angle (°) | -2.06±14.80 | -1.98±14.69 | -0.81±15.09 | -1.05±15.41 | -0.89±15.32 | -1.49±15.45 | 0.997 | |