Examining the Influence of Fatigue on Anticipatory Postural Adjustments of the Trunk Muscles and Movement-related Cortical Potentials in Healthy Subjects During a Rapid Arm Task Perturbation
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 状态
- 已完成
- 入组人数
- 22
- 试验地点
- 2
- 主要终点
- Trunk muscle EMG latency
研究概览
简要总结
This study aims at examining the influence of both physically and cognitively induced fatigue on trunk motor control on the one hand and brain activity related to movement preparation on the other hand, in healthy adult subjects. Furthermore, a comparison between the effects of both types of fatigue will be made. For this purpose a motor control task will be performed and compared before and after 3 specific interventions: i.e. a control intervention, a physical task and a cognitive task. Muscle and brain activity will be measured during each motor control task.
It is hypothesised that motor control will not be altered after a control task, i.e. seated rest for 45 minutes. With regards to the physical fatigue condition, it is expected that trunk muscles will contract earlier after this task than before due to altered motor control. Cognitive fatigue is hypothesised to have similar underlying processes as physical fatigue, thus a similar earlier muscle contraction is also expected after cognitive fatigue.
Lastly, as both types of fatigue are expected to induce a similar effect on motor control no significant differences between cognitive and physical fatigue are hypothesised. However, it is possible that the magnitude of this effect differs between types of fatigue, i.e. that 1 of both types has a bigger effect on motor control than the other.
With regards to brain activity in preparation of a motor control task similar hypotheses are formulated: no effect of the control task on brain activity, earlier and possibly increased brain activity after both fatiguing tasks, and no differences between both types of fatigue besides a possible difference in magnitude of effect.
详细描述
September 2016 - January 2017. 16 healthy, adult male and female participants aged 18-45 were tested for 3 conditions on 2 separate days, i.e. a control condition on test day 1; a physical and cognitive fatiguing condition in randomised order on test day 2.
2 blocks of 80 rapid arm movements (RAM1 and RAM2) with the dominant arm were performed per condition, while electroencephalography (EEG) of the brain and surface electromyography (sEMG) of the Internal Oblique/Transversus Abdominis, External Oblique, Multifidus and Iliocostalis Lumborum pars Thoracis muscles were measured bilaterally. sEMG of the Anterior Deltoid muscle of the dominant arm was also measured. These RAM's were used to induce an internal perturbation to the postural balance of subjects and is an often used task in the study of trunk motor control. In between 2 blocks of the RAM the condition-specific interventions were given. The control condition consisted of RAM1 - 45 minute rest - RAM2; the physical fatigue condition consisted of RAM1 - 45 minute physical fatigue task - RAM2; the cognitive fatigue condition consisted of RAM1 - 45 minute cognitive fatigue task - RAM2.
The physical fatiguing task was a static endurance task for the paravertebral muscles, i.e. modified Biering-Sörensen task, followed by a static endurance task for the abdominal muscles, i.e. a static abdominal curl in 45° of trunk flexion while seated.
The cognitive fatiguing task was a modified incongruent Stroop color-word task for 45 minutes.
At the beginning of each test day several questionnaires were also administered to control for fatigue and physical activity, i.e. Checklist Individual Strength (CIS), Profile Of Mood States (POMS) and International Physical Activity Questionnaire (IPAQ).
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Interventional
- 分配方式
- Randomized
- 干预模型
- Crossover
- 主要目的
- Basic Science
- 盲法
- Single (Outcomes Assessor)
盲法说明
The researcher that will perform the EMG-analysis, i.e. onset determination of the various muscles that were measured, will be blinded for participant, condition and muscle during that process.
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 18 Years 至 45 Years（Adult）
- 性别
- All
- 接受健康志愿者
- 是
入选标准
- •Healthy adult subjects.
排除标准
- •People with a history of pain or current pain
- •severe pathologies
- •cardiorespiratory disorders
- •neurological disorders
- •vestibular disorders
- •endocrinologic disorders
- •psychiatric and cognitive disorders
- •colour blindness
- •sleeping disorders
- •psychological disorders or major depressions
- •major surgery to the spine or upper limbs
- •clinically relevant malalignments and deformities
- •malignancies
- •substance abuse of alcohol or drugs
- •consumption of analgesics without prescription 24 hours or with prescription two weeks before testing
- •use of psychotropic medication
- •extreme physical activities two days before testing
- •professional athletes
- •pregnant women or women < 1 year postnatally
结局指标
主要结局
Trunk muscle EMG latency
时间窗: 2 hours
Latency of the activation onset of the trunk muscles on EMG compared to prime mover onset (Anterior Deltoid) in milliseconds.
Contingent Negative Variation
时间窗: 2 hours
A cortical EEG-potential that reflects movement preparation in the timeframe between a warning cue and a go cue in Volt.
次要结局
- Checklist Individual Strength(5 minutes at the beginning of each test day)
- International Physical Activities Questionnaire(15 minutes at the beginning of each test day)
- General questionnaire(10 minutes at the beginning of test day 1)
- General questionnaire-Short(10 minutes at the beginning of test day 2)
- Visual Analogue Scale for Fatigue(10 seconds for every measurement)
- Rating of Perceived Exertion/Borg(5 seconds for every measurement)
- Profile Of Mood States-Short Form(5 minutes at the beginning of each test day)