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Vibration Therapy for Health Promotion
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.105024

the procedure is called Systemic vibration therapy. As it is shown in Figure 4, the
biological effects of mechanical vibrations would be due to the mechanotransduc-
tion mechanism by which cells (cellular structures and inner environment of the
cell) convert mechanical stimulus into biological activity and there is the release of
various hormonal and no hormonal molecules [19].
This form of mechanotransduction would be responsible for a number of
physiological processes in the body, including proprioception, effects on bone

Figure 4.
Interaction of the mechanical vibration with the cell and the mechanobiotransduction.

Figure 5.
Some targets of the mechanical vibration in the body related to proprioception (2, 6, 7), effects on bone mineral
density (6) and in the metabolism (3, 4), endocrine (2, 3, 4), and immunity systems (2, 7), muscle (6) and
vital functions (1, 5), balance (2, 6, 7), and functionality (2, 6, 7).

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