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A study at NASA’s Johnson Space Centre showed that the use of a vibration platform during exercise squats made muscles work more, but it didn’t look at whether vibration makes athletes run faster or jump higher.

“Vibration works … but we’re still trying to figure out how to use it best and I think we’re a number of years away before we do that,” said Bill Amonette, one of the study authors and a fitness expert at the University of Houston-Clear Lake. “I think we have to be cautious of some of the claims. … With aggressive marketing, sometimes they claim things that aren’t necessarily true.”

Some researchers are also concerned that high-amplitude vibration can be dangerous over time since it can send jarring waves throughout the body, said Andrew Abercromby, another researcher at Johnson Space Centre.

“I believe, and I think quite a few other people believe, the jury is still out on it,” Crumby said.

Clinton Rubin, a biomedical engineering professor at State University of New York at Stony Brook, said he has asked Power Plate to stop citing his research in its promotional materials. His work has led to a vibration device before the Food and Drug Administration approval for prevention and reversal of bone loss from osteoporosis, but that device uses much gentler vibrations than Power Plate, Rubin said.

He believes the Power Plate’s vibration levels could cause low back pain, cartilage damage, blurred vision, hearing loss and even brain damage.

“I think they are cavalier in dismissing the dangers of chronic exposure,” he said. “I’m a scientist. I worry that people are going to use this device based on a misrepresentation of science.”