{"id":1207,"date":"2013-05-14T04:39:22","date_gmt":"2013-05-13T18:39:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.hypervibe.com\/?p=1207"},"modified":"2026-04-29T01:26:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T15:26:10","slug":"hypervibe-study-wbv-on-mobility-balance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hypervibe.com\/au\/blog\/hypervibe-study-wbv-on-mobility-balance\/","title":{"rendered":"Hypervibe Announces New Study on WBV&#8217;s Effects on Mobility"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hypervibe, a leader in the field of <a title=\"whole body vibration machine effects on the body\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hypervibe.com\/au\/product-comparison\/\">whole body vibration <\/a>(WBV), announced a <strong>new study<\/strong> released on <strong>whole body vibration and its effects on mobility, balance, and joint position sense<\/strong> in older adults.<\/p>\n<p>The study, <em>\u201cThe effect of a single session of Whole Body Vibration on mobility, lower limb joint position sense and balance of community-dwelling older adults,\u201d <\/em>was completed by James Cook University and published in the Internet Journal of Allied Health Science and Practice.<\/p>\n<p>According to the study:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>28-35 percent of people 65 and older fall each year.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>32-42 percent of those over 70 years of age fall annually.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Research has found that impaired balance results in <strong>3.2 times the risk<\/strong> of falling across all populations, and single-limb balance is a proven indicator of poor balance overall.<\/p>\n<p>The study, which used Hypervibe\u2019s <a title=\"Hypervibe Performance Whole Body Vibration Machine\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hypervibe.com\/au\/product-comparison\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Performance Whole Body Vibration machine<\/a>, found that <strong>one 10-minute workout<\/strong> on a whole body vibration machine, using a frequency of 6Hz and amplitude of 5mm, can significantly improve single limb balance.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cWe are excited to announce the results of this study,\u201d <\/strong>said Murray Seaton, founder of Hypervibe. \u201cEvery year, one in three people over the age of 65 experience a fall that could be prevented with better balance. Research that supports whole body vibration as a way to improve balance will convince more health and wellness practitioners to recommend WBV training to their patients.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The new study, led by <strong>Dr. Anne Jones, <\/strong>Honours Coordinator of the Physiotherapy School of Public Health, Tropical Medicine and Rehabilitation Sciences at <strong>James Cook University<\/strong>, involved thirty-six adults over the age of 50. According to the results:<\/p>\n<p><span><em>\u201c[The participants experienced] a statistically significant change in single-limb balance for both the right and lefts legs following the single episode of WBV. The study concluded that a single episode of WBV for ten minutes, at 6Hz and 5mm peak to peak amplitude affected single limb balance, but no effect on joint position- sense or mobility.\u201d<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Hypervibe had no input into the data analysis, interpretation, or conclusions of the study.<\/p>\n<p>The Hypervibe Performance whole body vibration machine, which was used in the study, normally retails for $2,395. The Hypervibe Performance was <strong>engineered to the highest standards<\/strong>, allowing the machine to provide the most benefit to the user at half the price of its closest competitor. It is capable of generating from 0.8G to 17G of G-force and 28Hz of pivotal vibration.<\/p>\n<p><em><span><strong>Financing options are available for the Hypervibe Performance. <a title=\"Hypervibe whole body vibration platform\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hypervibe.com\/au\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Visit our website<\/a> for details on how you can get your own machine. <\/strong><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hypervibe, a leader in the field of whole body vibration (WBV), announced a new study released on whole body vibration and its effects on mobility, balance, and joint position sense in older adults. The study, \u201cThe effect of a single session of Whole Body Vibration on mobility, lower limb joint position sense and balance of community-dwelling older adults,\u201d was completed by James Cook University and published in the Internet Journal of Allied Health Science and Practice. According to the study: 28-35 percent of people 65 and older fall each year. 32-42 percent of those over 70 years of age fall [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10124,"featured_media":1215,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"content-type":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[201],"tags":[16],"class_list":["post-1207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hypervibe-news","tag-company-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hypervibe.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hypervibe.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hypervibe.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hypervibe.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10124"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hypervibe.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1207"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.hypervibe.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1207\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23411,"href":"https:\/\/www.hypervibe.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1207\/revisions\/23411"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hypervibe.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hypervibe.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hypervibe.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hypervibe.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}