Effect of warm-up before exercise or practice, on cognitive function such as accuracy in games, reaction time before opponents in sportspersons

Completed

• Conditions: SELECTED SPORTSPERSONS WITHOUT ANY DISEASE/ DISABILITY and MUSCULOSKELETAL INJURIES

• Registration Number: CTRI/2023/01/048737
• Lead Sponsor: ARMED FORCES MEDICAL COLLEGE

Brief Summary

Athletes falling in inclusion criteria were taken for the study after written informed consent and description of the study. Their pre-warm-up heart rate and cognitive function were taken which is considered as baseline for both the warm-up protocol to be performed. Then the participants were randomized to perform warm-up protocol 1 and 2 on two separate occasions, 48 hours apart to allow the participants to recover.

Warm-up protocol 1 - Athletes were asked to do warm up in their comfortable pace of jogging for 15 minutes. Post-warm-up heart rate was measured and the cognitive testing was done immediately after warm-up.



Warm-up protocol 2 - Athletes were asked to do sports-specific warm-up protocol created which included jogging, activation and mobilization of major muscle groups, and sports-specific movement patterns including plyometric movements for a total of 15 minutes. Post-warm-up heart rate was measured and the cognitive testing was done immediately post warm-up.



Cognitive testing was done using the Joggle research application, a validated computerized neurocognitive assessment tool that had the Motor Praxis task, validated by Gur RC et al 2001 and the Psychomotor Vigilance task, validated by Basner et al 2011 for determining the accuracy and reaction time of the participants.



The results of accuracy and reaction time after both the warm-up protocol was analyzed using standard statistical software and found that both the accuracy and reaction time improved after sports-specific warm-up.

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study Completion: 2023-03-31
• Study Start: 2023-05-01
• Last Update Posted: 2023-05-24

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Sex: Male
• Target Recruitment: 30

Inclusion Criteria

Volunteering sportspersons who are falling in age group between 15-35years of age and active in particular sports for at least more than 6 months in sports institute of western Maharashtra.

Exclusion Criteria

Diagnosed with any disease/ disorder with/without treatment Suffering from any musculoskeletal injury or undergoing any rehabilitation Unwilling subjects.

Study & Design

• Study Type: Interventional
• Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Primary outcomes measured are Accuracy	Baseline as soon as recruited, | second time on 1st day. third time after 48 hours
Reaction time	Baseline as soon as recruited, | second time on 1st day. third time after 48 hours
using Motor Praxis Task and Psychomotor Vigilance task using a validated software named Joggle Research application for cognitive function assessment	Baseline as soon as recruited, | second time on 1st day. third time after 48 hours

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Number of false starts in computerized psychomotor vigilance task after sports specific warm up in comparison with general warm up	on Day 1 and after 48 hours

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

ARMED FORCES MEDICAL COLLEGE; 🇮🇳 Pune, MAHARASHTRA, India

ARMED FORCES MEDICAL COLLEGE

🇮🇳Pune, MAHARASHTRA, India

SQN LDR DR ARIVARASAN S

Principal investigator

9003221137

arivarasan1990@gmail.com