Vibration Therapy to boost BMD for CR folks?

[Guest guest]

I'm not sure if this has been mentioned before, but I just came across it, and

thought it might

be relevant, since some people on CR have low BMD (bone mineral density).

The results of one major study on vibration therapy ( " Prevention of

Postmenopausal Bone

Loss by a Low-Magnitude, High-Frequency Mechanical Stimuli: A Clinical Trial

Assessing

Compliance, Efficacy, and Safety " ) can be found here

http://www.bme.sunysb.edu/bme/people/faculty/docs/crubin/2004-JBMR-recker.pdf

Although the overall results were disappointing (there was no average increase

in BMD for the

group getting vibration therapy), there was still lots of good news from this

study, with the

best results obtained by those women with the highest compliance (two 10-minute

sessions

per day, just standing on the platform). In that high-compliance group, there

was an average

increase of BMD of 2.73%; for the women who weighed less than 143 lbs, there was

an

increase of BMD of 3.35%. So a person with low body weight seems most likely to

benefit

from vibration therapy in order to reverse BMD loss.

And with lower cost WBV (whole body vibration) machines now coming on the market

(e.g.,

Soloflex), perhaps vibration therapy should be considered by anyone on CR.

--Bruce