The Acute Effect of ArmVibration on Eye-Hand Coordination Performance in Youth

Asuman Sahan

doi:10.4236/ape.2016.62016

Abstract

This study examined the impact of acute arm vibration exercises on hand-eye coordination performance in youths. The subject consisted of 24 male university students. Four sets of Double Hand-Eye Coordination Test (DHECT) were conducted on all participants by performing 60 sec vibration exercises at intervals. After 1-wk, the DHECT (providing 10 sec rest time in between) was performed again on the same participants (control) with four sets at intervals without the vibration application. DHECT results were recorded after both applications. According to the result of repeated measure of ANOVA, DHECT significant improvement was found depending on time measurements with vibration (p = 0.00), a significant improvement was not found depending on time in measurements without vibration (p = 0.17).

Highlights

Vibration exercises provide eccentric and concentric muscle contractions that are rapid and repetitive and increase the metabolic rate (Cochrane, 2011)
According to the variance-analysis results in the repeated measurements conducted with Double Hand-Eye Coordination Test (DHECT) with and without vibration, while significant difference depending on time were observed in measurements with vibration
The purpose of the study was to determine the impact of vibration exercises performed above Whole Body Vibration (WBV) platform on the performance of DHEC

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Introduction

Vibration exercises provide eccentric and concentric muscle contractions that are rapid and repetitive and increase the metabolic rate (Cochrane, 2011). The vibration exercises are applied in two different ways. The first is a local vibration application and the second is Whole Body Vibration (WBV). In the local vibration application, the vibration is applied on the widest part of the muscle or the tendon with a hand-held vibration source. In the WBV method, attempts are made to increase performance by stimulating the whole body with oscillatory movements on a vibration platform (Issurin, 2005). When the effects of the vibration were examined, different results were obtained.

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