With the aging of the world's population, osteoporosis has become a health issue of concern to people all over the world***. Osteoporosis is a systemic metabolic bone disease caused by a decrease in bone mass and degradation of the microstructure of bone tissue, with bone pain, easy fracture and humpback as the main features. Osteoporosis can occur in different genders and at any age, but it mostly occurs in the elderly, and there are more female patients than male patients, and the most common incidence of the disease is in postmenopausal women. Treatment for osteoporosis has long been with medication, although this treatment can alleviate bone loss to a certain extent. But? Drugs are not necessarily poisonous. There is no way to guarantee the safety of long-term drug treatment. In recent years, however, an emerging treatment for osteoporosis, whole-body vibration training, has attracted considerable public attention.
The Whole Body Vibration Training, as a new type of training method, has been widely developed in many fields abroad, and has begun to be initially utilized and researched domestically. The importance of exercise as a non-pharmacological treatment for osteoporosis is gradually being recognized by the public. But for the elderly, if they perform inappropriate exercise, it is undoubtedly another risk to their lives. However, Whole Body Vibration training is simple and easy to use, and can be of great use in the treatment of osteoporosis in the elderly. Recent studies have also shown that Whole Body Vibration training can increase bone density in menopausal women, help improve flexibility and mobility in older adults, and prevent loss of balance. Whole Body Vibration training can also cause some adaptive changes in neuromuscular function, relaxing muscles to stimulate hormone secretion, etc., so as to achieve the effect of reducing pain. It can be seen that Whole Body Vibration training has a role to play in the treatment of osteoporosis. However, not all studies have shown that Whole Body Vibration training can achieve such an effect, in addition, Whole Body Vibration training may also cause minor adverse effects. As the ability of whole body vibration to treat osteoporosis has been highly controversial, research on this subject is ongoing.