OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study was to investigate the static and dynamic balance after a training session on the vibration platform in elderly women with different loads.
METHODs: Participated in this study fifteen subjects (67.0 ± 4.7 years, 69.1 ± 10.5 kg, 155.4 ± 4.5 cm) underwent eight sessions in which the vibrating platform on separate days, in different frequencies and amplitudes (2 mm/30 Hz; 2mm/50 Hz, 4 mm/30 Hz, 4 mm/50 Hz), were evaluated after the first four sessions, the static balance test by one foot and in four subsequent sessions by the dynamic balance test "timed up and go", checked in the pre, post, twenty minutes and forty minutes later.
RESULTS: The data were tested using the analysis of variance ANOVA for repeated measures following by Scheffé post hoc when p < 0,05. No statistically significant difference was found between the times for any of the protocols for the dynamic and static equilibrium.
CONCLUSIONS: The results suggest that acute exercise on vibratory platform does not affect the post-balance in older women.</p
