Exercise in Osteoporosis -- are vibratory massages useful or harmful?

As you know people who dont have any access to help often feel like massaging their tired leg muscles after walking. They often use small hand held devices run on electricity or batteries, which have a vibrating knob which they apply to the calf and thigh.

I apply the vibrator, moving it laterally across the grain of the muscles, gradually going upwards.

Thus as far as the bone inside is concerned, I am applying a lateral vibration on it -- horizontally-- in contrast to the weight bearing exercises where the pressure on the bones is applied vertically.

There are vibrating machines on which a person can stand, which apply the vibrations vertically on the legs-- but they are much too expensive and in addition not available here in India. They are known to build bones.

I do know that when I apply the vibrator laterally on the legs going upwards slowly, I do feel much relaxation in the legs and can walk better.

But I am worried lest these lateral vibrations will cause the vertical bones to break or crack or lose mass. Is this right or wrong? What is the effect of lateral vibrations on vertical bones-- what is the effect of pressure or vibrations applied along the sides of the bones, the width? Would they help to build mass or break off bones in osteoporosis? Or does this depend upon the pressure of the vibrations which we apply to the muscle-- which must be transmitted to the bones underneath?

I had gone to the internet and found these sites, which state that massage may help build bones, especially in wheel chair patients etc who cannot walk. It also advises caution in osteoporosis. So I am not sure what to do:

http://www.evovibe.com/uploads/Vibration_Research_Summaries.pdf


http://cbs2chicago.com/health/vibration.therapy.2.323585.html


http://medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/massage+therapy



Thanking you in anticipation,
Yours,
Priya

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