The Effect of Bathing in the Thermal Mineral Water on the Pain and Performance of Athletes
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 状态
- Enrolling By Invitation
- 发起方
- 入组人数
- 30
- 试验地点
- 1
- 主要终点
- The extent of the effect and change on the performance of athletes and any existing pain in the balneotherapy group compared to the change in the control group. This would be measured by the improvement in 6000-meter ergometer performance.
研究概览
简要总结
Effect of bathing in the thermal mineral water well on the performance and potential pain of athletes. Randomized, controlled, single-blind study.
详细描述
In rowing sports, where the same series of movements are repeated thousands of times, the lower lumbar region is the most stressed part. Because of this, even training on an ergometer can cause numerous lower back problems, even among competitors. In addition, rowers use many muscle groups during their sport, for which the beneficial effect of thermal medicinal waters, affecting the entire musculoskeletal system, can be beneficial, and is used for rehabilitation purposes in several countries.
Studies describe the numerous positive effects of bathing in warm water (37-46°C) in increasing blood flow, regulating blood sugar, and even the positive response of the vascular system.
The Palatinus Spa's water supply is provided by the drilled thermal wells of Margit Island of Budapest.
Regarding its type, the medicinal water is a low salt concentration, calcium-magnesium-hydrogen carbonate, chloride, and sulfate medicinal water, which also has a significant fluoride and metasilicic acid content. The total dissolved mineral content is 1205 mg/liter. In the study, we would conduct the clinical trial necessary for the "Margaret Island mineral water" / 37-38 °C / thermal mineral water of the Margitszigeti É. III well to be declared medicinal water.
Research Question Primary objective: Effect of bathing in the "Margaret Island mineral water" thermal mineral water of the Margaret Island III well on the performance and potential pain of athletes. Randomized, controlled, single-blind study.
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Interventional
- 分配方式
- Randomized
- 干预模型
- Parallel
- 主要目的
- Other
- 盲法
- Single (Participant)
盲法说明
Randomized, controlled, single-blind study.
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 14 Years 至 75 Years（Child, Adult, Older Adult）
- 性别
- All
- 接受健康志愿者
- 是
入选标准
- •Rowers coming from the surrounding area, with registration at the Hungarian Rowing Federation (MESZ), including competitive/touring and recreational/masters rowers
- •Women and men between 18 and 75 years of age
- •Participating in regular training for at least 6 months
- •Signed informed consent form prior to the start of the study
排除标准
- •Acute pain;
- •Organic neurological deficit;
- •Malignancy in the background;
- •Pain attributable to inflammatory disease;
- •Participants must not have received systemic or local steroid therapy, physiotherapy as a course of treatment, massage therapy, or balneotherapy as a course of treatment within 3 months prior to the study;
- •General contraindications of balneotherapy:
- •unstable angina pectoris,
- •uncontrolled hypertension,
- •cardiac decompensation,
- •respiratory failure,
- •unbalanced endocrinological disease,
- •acute febrile condition,
- •infectious skin diseases,
- •other serious internal, urogenital, and other diseases, urinary and fecal incontinence,
- •decompensated psychosis and neurosis, lack of compliance
研究组 & 干预措施
Athletes/rowing
Patients were enrolled if they met the inclusion and exclusion criteria. The classification would be based on a randomization list. Measurements, clinical examinations, and evaluation of pain and functional status-related quality of life will be performed before, immediately after the treatments, and 3 months later. One group will bathe in a pool filled with 36°C thermal mineral water of the Palatinus Spa for 3 weeks, 5 days a week, for a total of 15 sessions, 20 minutes per session. Bathing in the thermal mineral water takes place in the medicinal water pool. The control group does not receive balneotherapy. Both groups can continue their usual training plan. The thermal mineral water-treated group and the control group may not receive systemic or locally administered steroid therapy during the study, and the control group may not receive balneotherapy.
干预措施: thermal mineral water bath (Behavioral)
Athletes
One group will bathe in a pool filled with 36°C thermal mineral water of the Palatinus Spa for 3 weeks, 5 days a week, for a total of 15 sessions, 20 minutes per session. Bathing in the thermal mineral water takes place in the medicinal water pool. The control group does not receive balneotherapy. Both groups can continue their usual training plan.
Rowers coming from the surrounding area, with registration at the Hungarian Rowing Federation
干预措施: thermal mineral water bath (Behavioral)
结局指标
主要结局
The extent of the effect and change on the performance of athletes and any existing pain in the balneotherapy group compared to the change in the control group. This would be measured by the improvement in 6000-meter ergometer performance.
时间窗: 3 months
The extent of the effect and change on the performance of athletes and any existing pain in the balneotherapy group compared to the change in the control group. This would be measured by the improvement in 6000-meter ergometer performance. Examining the change in threshold load with improving parameters and heart rate variability (HRV) (examining how the heart is able to continuously change the duration between heartbeats (RR intervals) in response to changes in internal and external environmental loads, and thereby showing the heart's adaptation. This adaptability of the heart is based on the optimal interplay and cooperation of the sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems.)
次要结局
- The extent of the change in fatigue, muscle pain, and discomfort between workouts measured by VAS in the balneotherapy group compared to the change in the control group.(3 months)
研究者
Tamas Gati
MD
Polyclinic of the Hospitaller Brothers of St. John of God, Budapest