Resumen de A novel slide vibration board for anterior cruciate ligament rehabilitation

Jose Fernando Gisbert Orozco, Gerard Moras Feliu

• Athletes who are involved in side cutting and pivoting sports as football, are at higher risk of anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injuries (Shaffer & Williams, 2013). Both, slideboard exercise and whole body vibration as an exercise modality, are used in rehabilitation ACL injuries by enhance strength, proprioception, and balance (Blanpied et al., 2000; Rittweger, 2010), as well as, advanced proprioception training (perturbations) to constraint the athlete in ACL rehabilitation exercises (Shaffer & Williams, 2013). Sliding under the effects of vibratory stimulation, can be consider as a constraint since the athlete has to adapt to the environment in order to perform successfully, thereby, training under constraints, increase movement variability (MV) and adaptability to achieve optimal coordination and motor control (Rienhoff, Tirp, Strauß, Baker, & Schorer, 2016). In this sense, MV must be perceived as a key element to identify the amount of perturbation (Couceiro, Clemente, Dias, Mendes, & Fernando, 2014). This perturbation, can be evaluated with entropy analysis on trunk acceleration (Moras et al., 2018).

  Therefore, the aim of this study was to compare the effects of vibration as a constraint in MV while sliding on a slide vibration board (SVB)