Muscle Building Blog

Multiple sclerosis (MS), a neurodegenerative disease, causes periodic attacks of neurologic symptoms such as limb weakness and mobility defects. And while MS patients' walking abilities and muscle strength are examined on a regular basis, doctors have yet to determine when the lower limb muscles begin to deteriorate.

Whole-body vibration is pitched as a solution to everything from low bone density in astronauts to a better golf swing for weekend duffers and as an aid to rehabilitating weakened muscles. But a small new study suggests that regular training using whole-body vibration does nothing to improve muscle strength or function in patients with multiple sclerosis (MS).

MS is characterised by 'disseminated demyelination' which is when the insulating matter that surrounds our nerves (myelin) is destroyed and the electrical messages which travel through the nerves are interrupted. It usually presents in adolescence or young adulthood with relapses and remissions continuing throughout the patient's lifetime. It is unlikely to occur before puberty or after the age of sixty. Once MS occurs, the body itself attacks the nerve insulating matter, exacerbating the condit