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Whole Body Vibration for Osteoporosis

Osteoporosis & Bone Health | Last Active: Aug 12 2:55pm | Replies (146)

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@tetris

Based on what Belinda Beck said at Margie Bissinger's Bone Health Summit a few months ago, the VIBMOR study lacked proper oversight and was not well-executed. Also, IMHO, a well-planned study does not have many, many outcomes. It sounds like from Beck's post that Rubin and she are motivated (desperate?) to salvage the flawed study. It will be interesting to see what results they disseminate widely.

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I would have more confidence in a study where the results were tabulated by an independent person rather than the one having the most at stake.

@tetris I'm not sure how to say this nicely but I disagree strongly with the content and tone of your comments about Belinda Beck and the VIBMOR study. I've been following Belinda Beck's work for years now and I'm very impressed with the quality of her studies and the light she and her co-workers are shedding on exercise's effects on bone health. Really important work. BTW, I read her studies as I feel they are that important and useful.
The VIBMOR study has not been released yet so I cannot comment on what it will say but in her interviews she has been very honest and forthright about a result she did not anticipate. That being that the low intensity vibration had no detectable effect on bone density. It's not what she expected or what she wanted to be found but she is openly stating that this is what the data is showing. Her only qualifications are that the analysis and publication has not been completed.

For the vibration to be unsuccessful is not a failure of the study. As to it being flawed she listed one mistake that the exercise intensity was not done at 85% of the 1 rep max as was used in the other studies they conducted. Neither she nor Margie Bissinger stated or concluded that it was therefore a "flawed study" as you categorize it to be.
Your insinuations that " that Rubin and she are motivated (desperate?) to salvage the flawed study." is just wild conjecture, nothing more.
If she was trying to hide something I don't think she would be doing interviews and broadcasting results that, according to you, she is desperately trying to hide.