Efficacy of Microcurrent Therapy After Eccentric Exercise
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 状态
- 已完成
- 入组人数
- 15
- 试验地点
- 1
- 主要终点
- Intensity of pain (Visual analogue scale)
研究概览
简要总结
15 participants will be included in the present study. They will attend two groups of three sessions (i.e. sessions 1-2-3 and sessions 4-5-6) spaced by 3 months:
- session 1 and 4 (performed a few days before the experimental session): session for participants to get familiarized with the test battery.
- session 2 and 5: experimental session (the test battery followed by the provocative task, the test battery, the one-hour "treatment" and the test battery again).
- session 3 and 6 (performed 2 days later): the test battery.
The test battery included flexibility, functional, pressure pain threshold tests.
The provocative task was an isokinetic eccentric task for knee flexors and extensors.
The treatment was either a microcurrent therapy or a placebo microcurrent therapy.
详细描述
Objective:
To study the efficacy of microcurrent to reduce DOMS (Delayed Onset Muscle Soreness) occuring after an eccentric exercise
Methods:
Experimental protocol
Participants will attend two groups of three sessions (i.e. sessions 1-2-3 and sessions 4-5-6) spaced by 3 months:
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Interventional
- 分配方式
- Randomized
- 干预模型
- Crossover
- 主要目的
- Prevention
- 盲法
- Double (Participant, Outcomes Assessor)
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 18 Years 至 25 Years（Adult）
- 性别
- Male
- 接受健康志愿者
- 是
入选标准
- •Asymptomatic subjects
排除标准
- •practice of sports >3h per week
- •present pain in the lower limbs
- •history of thigh muscle injuries
- •recent injury (last 3 months) of the lower limbs
- •recent (last 3 months) plyometric exercises or lower limbs strengthening program.
研究组 & 干预措施
Sham microcurrent therapy
The participant is lying on an examination table for one hour; several electrodes are placed over the muscles involved in the provocative task. The microcurrent therapy is then started but it lasts only for 5 seconds.
干预措施: Sham microcurrent therapy (Device)
Microcurrent Group
The participant is lying on an examination table for one hour; several electrodes are placed over the muscles involved in the provocative task. The microcurrent therapy is then started.
干预措施: Microcurrent Therapy (Device)
结局指标
主要结局
Intensity of pain (Visual analogue scale)
时间窗: baseline, post-provocative task, post-treatment, 48h follow-up, following days until pain disappears
次要结局
- Flexibility of quadriceps and hamstrings muscles(baseline, post-provocative task, post-treatment, 48h follow-up)
- Pain sensibility threshold (Determined by using a dolorimeter)(baseline, post-provocative task, post-treatment, 48h follow-up)
- Functional test (Unilateral counter-movement jump)(baseline, post-provocative task, post-treatment, 48h follow-up)
- Isometric strength (Maximal voluntary contraction of knee flexor and extensor muscles)(baseline, post-provocative task, post-treatment, 48h follow-up)
研究者
Christophe Demoulin
Main investigator
University of Liege