A Randomized Controlled Trial Comparing Whole Body Vibration Therapy With Usual Care and Usual Care to Improve Muscle Health in Older Adults

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Conditions studied: Aging, Frailty, Sarcopenia, Muscle Strength, Muscle Function, Muscle Mass

In brief

This study is a randomized controlled trial where participants would be randomly assigned to one of 2 groups. One group would receive Whole body vibration therapy and usual care and the other group only usual care. Measurements of muscle mass, strength and function would be taken before the interventions, and at 2 other points after interventions. Differences in the outcomes between the two groups would be analysed.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT07205133

Run by

Changi General Hospital

People needed

40

Starts

2026-01-10

Expected to finish

2027-03-31

Last updated by the study team

2026-04-15

Who can join

Age: 65 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Healthy Volunteer or Patients aged 65 and above,
• Clinical frailty Scale (CFS) score of 3-4,
• Independently ambulating without any aid
• willingness and consent to participate in the study and ability to travel to the study-site for the measurements and interventions, and
• participants with no regular exercise habits (defined as less than 150mins/week of moderate intensity aerobic exercise and less than twice a week of strengthening exercises)for past 3 months.

You may not qualify if…

• current active enrolment into any Day Rehab or community exercise program,
• contraindications to WBVT machine usage (see below),
• diagnosis of dementia,
• history of Diabetes Mellitus
• BMI ≤20kg/m2,
• recent hospital admissions within the last 3 months,
• end stage organ failure,
• chronic diseases which are not well managed, for example, poorly controlled hypertension,
• New York Heart Association (NYHA) score II and above for patients with history of heart failure and
• MUST Score ≥1.
• Contraindications to WBVT:
• PRIMARY CONTRAINDICATIONS TO WBVT
• Pregnancy
• Acute thrombosis (acute vascular occlusion)
• Artificial joints in stimulated body regions
• Fresh fractures in stimulated body regions
• Within 3 months post surgery/procedure and/or any fresh wounds and scars in the stimulated body regions
• or if the wound healing is not yet completely finished.
• SECONDARY CONTRAINDICATIONS TO WBVT
• Acute inflammation of the musculoskeletal system, activated arthrosis or
• arthropathy (e.g. acute inflammation and swelling in joints).
• Acute tendinopathies in stimulated body regions (acute tendonitis)
• Acute hernias (tissue ruptures)
• Acute discopathy (acute disc-related back problem)
• Stone disease of the bile ducts and urinary tract

Where it is running

• Changi General Hospital — Singapore, Singapore (enrolling)

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