Ganz-Körper-Vibrationen bei Pferden

With this study, as one of the first of it’s kind in the field of
veterinary medicine, the impact of applying vibrations to horses
using a specially developed device for whole-body-vibrations was to
be investigated. The aim of this study was to acquire new
informations about the acute effect of vibration training to a
horses muscles and it’s pattern of movement. 20 horses underwent an
eight-day whole-body-vibration training program during their stay
at a veterinary clinic. The effect of the training on the muscles
of the horses was measured using ultrasonic measurements of the M.
longissimus dorsi. In order to measure the thickness of the
muscles, longitudal sections were made on both sides of the back in
six different places. On an additional 10 horses a
“computer-gait-analysis-program” was used to investigate the acute
effect of whole-body-vibration training. This study showed that an
eight-day whole-body-vibration training program had no significant
effect on the diameter of the M. longissimus dorsi. The stride
analysis part of this study showed that whole-body-vibration led to
an increase in stride length and an improvement of step speed.