STUDY OBJECTIVE: To determine if comfortably applied, whole-body, periodic acceleration releases significant amounts of nitric oxide (NO) into the circulation of healthy subjects and patients with inflammatory diseases. MATERIALS: Fourteen healthy adults and 40 adult patients with inflammatory diseases underwent single 45-min trials of whole-body, periodic acceleration with a new "passive exercise" device, while an ECG and a digital pulse wave were obtained with a photoelectric-plethysmograph sensor. METHODS: The position of the dicrotic notch from the pulse waveform was computed from the amplitude of the pulse divided by the height of the dicrotic notch above the end-diastolic level (a/b ratio). Increase of the a/b ratio reflects the vasodilator action of NO that causes downward movement of the dicrotic notch in the diastolic limb of the digital pulse, thereby elevating the a/b ratio. RESULTS: Application of whole-body, periodic acceleration was well tolerated in all participants, and all completed the 45-min treatment. The peak value of the a/b ratio markedly rose during periodic acceleration and returned to baseline during a 5-min recovery period in all healthy subjects and patients with inflammatory diseases. CONCLUSIONS: Whole-body, periodic acceleration increased pulsatile shear stress to the endothelium leading to vasodilatation and a fall in the dicrotic notch, consistent with increased NO bioactivity in every healthy adult and adult patient with inflammatory disease so treated. Therefore, passive exercise using whole-body, periodic acceleration produces an important benefit that occurs with active exercise.
STUDY OBJECTIVE: To determine if comfortably applied, whole-body, periodic acceleration releases significant amounts of nitric oxide (NO) into the circulation of healthy subjects and patients with inflammatory diseases. MATERIALS: Fourteen healthy adults and 40 adult patients with inflammatory diseases underwent single 45-min trials of whole-body, periodic acceleration with a new "passive exercise" device, while an ECG and a digital pulse wave were obtained with a photoelectric-plethysmograph sensor. METHODS: The position of the dicrotic notch from the pulse waveform was computed from the amplitude of the pulse divided by the height of the dicrotic notch above the end-diastolic level (a/b ratio). Increase of the a/b ratio reflects the vasodilator action of NO that causes downward movement of the dicrotic notch in the diastolic limb of the digital pulse, thereby elevating the a/b ratio. RESULTS: Application of whole-body, periodic acceleration was well tolerated in all participants, and all completed the 45-min treatment. The peak value of the a/b ratio markedly rose during periodic acceleration and returned to baseline during a 5-min recovery period in all healthy subjects and patients with inflammatory diseases. CONCLUSIONS: Whole-body, periodic acceleration increased pulsatile shear stress to the endothelium leading to vasodilatation and a fall in the dicrotic notch, consistent with increased NO bioactivity in every healthy adult and adult patient with inflammatory disease so treated. Therefore, passive exercise using whole-body, periodic acceleration produces an important benefit that occurs with active exercise.
Authors: Everett B Lohman; Kanikkai Steni Balan Sackiriyas; Gurinder S Bains; Giovanni Calandra; Crystal Lobo; Daniel Nakhro; Gauri Malthankar; Sherwine Paul Journal: Med Sci Monit Date: 2012-07
Authors: Arkady Uryash; Jorge Bassuk; Paul Kurlansky; Francisco Altamirano; Jose R Lopez; Jose A Adams Journal: PLoS One Date: 2015-07-02 Impact factor: 3.240
Authors: Francisco Altamirano; Claudio F Perez; Min Liu; Jeffrey Widrick; Elisabeth R Barton; Paul D Allen; Jose A Adams; Jose R Lopez Journal: PLoS One Date: 2014-09-02 Impact factor: 3.240