Deans' stroke musings: Progressive Whole-Body Vertical Vibration with Conventional Rehabilitation for Upper Limb Function and Corticospinal Excitability in Subacute Stroke Patients

Changing stroke rehab and research worldwide now.Time is Brain! trillions and trillions of neurons that DIE each day because there are NO effective hyperacute therapies besides tPA(only 12% effective). I have 523 posts on hyperacute therapy, enough for researchers to spend decades proving them out. These are my personal ideas and blog on stroke rehabilitation and stroke research. Do not attempt any of these without checking with your medical provider. Unless you join me in agitating, when you need these therapies they won't be there.

What this blog is for:

My blog is not to help survivors recover, it is to have the 10 million yearly stroke survivors light fires underneath their doctors, stroke hospitals and stroke researchers to get stroke solved. 100% recovery. The stroke medical world is completely failing at that goal, they don't even have it as a goal. Shortly after getting out of the hospital and getting NO information on the process or protocols of stroke rehabilitation and recovery I started searching on the internet and found that no other survivor received useful information. This is an attempt to cover all stroke rehabilitation information that should be readily available to survivors so they can talk with informed knowledge to their medical staff. It lays out what needs to be done to get stroke survivors closer to 100% recovery. It's quite disgusting that this information is not available from every stroke association and doctors group.

Friday, April 17, 2026

Progressive Whole-Body Vertical Vibration with Conventional Rehabilitation for Upper Limb Function and Corticospinal Excitability in Subacute Stroke Patients

Didn't your competent? doctor propose this for you years ago? NO? So you don't have a functioning stroke doctor, do you?

Whole Body Vibration Therapy (6 posts to January 2018)

Progressive Whole-Body Vertical Vibration with Conventional Rehabilitation for Upper Limb Function and Corticospinal Excitability in Subacute Stroke Patients

DOI: 10.3791/70207

April 7, 2026

Lu Chen*1, Qing Du*1, Juan Yin1, Li Kong1, Sijie Liang1

1Department of Rehabilitation Medicine,

The Affiliated Hospital of Xuzhou Medical University

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Summary

This randomized controlled trial aimed to examine the effects of progressive Whole-Body Vertical Vibration (WBVV) combined with conventional rehabilitation on upper limb motor function and corticospinal tract excitability in subacute stroke patients and to explore potential neurophysiological mechanisms.

Abstract

Stroke often results in upper limb impairment. Although many patients regain independent ambulation, upper limb function recovery remains incomplete, which limits activities of daily living (ADL) and reduces quality of life. Optimizing upper limb rehabilitation strategies continues to represent a major challenge in stroke care. This article presents a randomized controlled trial protocol investigating the effects of progressive WBVV training on upper limb function and corticospinal excitability in subacute stroke patients. Forty-eight subacute stroke patients are allocated to an experimental group (n = 24) and a control group (n = 24). The control group receives conventional rehabilitation training, while the experimental group receives additional progressive WBVV training. This intervention offers the advantages of easy implementation, low energy consumption, and favorable tolerability for subacute stroke patients. The WBVV protocol is gradually intensified over four weeks by adjusting frequency and amplitude. After four weeks of intervention, both groups showed significant improvements in upper limb function, ADL ability and neurophysiological indicators (p < 0.05). The experimental group achieved significantly better outcomes in Fugl–Meyer Assessment of Upper Extremity (FMA-UE), Wolf Motor Function Test (WMFT) and Modified Barthel Index (MBI) scores compared with the control group (p < 0.05). Both groups presented shortened motor evoked potential latency and increased peak-to-peak amplitude, but no significant between-group differences were found in neurophysiological measures (p > 0.05). These findings indicate that WBVV combined with conventional rehabilitation can effectively promote upper limb functional recovery and ADL performance in subacute stroke patients. Further research is required to verify its effects on corticospinal excitability.