Can breathing pure oxygen at high pressure improve exercise-induced muscle injury recovery in baseball players?
Not Applicable
Completed
- Conditions
- Exercise-related muscular injuryMusculoskeletal Diseases
- Registration Number
- ISRCTN17817041
- Lead Sponsor
- Chang Gung Memorial Hospital
- Brief Summary
2019 results in https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31275980 (added 11/02/2020)
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Completed
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 41
Inclusion Criteria
1. Aged 20 years or older
2. Diagnosed with prolonged (more than 2 weeks) exercise-induced muscular soreness or pain with grade I muscle strain of the extremities
3. Currently under intensive and regular baseball training or regular baseball season
Exclusion Criteria
1. Pneumothorax
2. Upper respiratory tract infection
3. Recently received chest or ear surgery
4. Claustrophobic
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method <br> 1. Serum creatine phosphokinase (CPK)<br> 2. Serum glutamic-oxaloacetic transaminase (GOT)<br> 3. Serum myoglobin<br> 4. Blood urine nitrogen (BUN)<br> 5. Serum lactate<br> Data were collected before the treatment (T1), end of 5th HBOT (T2), end of 10th HBOT (T3), and 2 weeks after the 10th HBOT (T4).<br>
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method <br> 1. Pain intensity assessed using the Brief Pain Inventory before the treatment (T1), end of 5th HBOT (T2), end of 10th HBOT (T3), and 2 weeks after the 10th HBOT (T4)<br> 2. Pain interference assessed using the Brief Pain Inventory before the treatment (T1), end of 5th HBOT (T2), end of 10th HBOT (T3), and 2 weeks after the 10th HBOT (T4)<br>