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Dynamic Compression Enhances Pressure-to-Pain Threshold in Elite Athlete Recovery
- Source :
- Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research. 29:1263-1272
- Publication Year :
- 2015
- Publisher :
- Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health), 2015.
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Abstract
- Athlete recovery-adaptation is crucial to the progress and performance of highly trained athletes. The purpose of this study was to assess peristaltic pulse dynamic compression (PPDC) in reducing short-term pressure-to-pain threshold (PPT) among Olympic Training Center athletes after morning training. Muscular tenderness and stiffness are common symptoms of fatigue and exercise-induced muscle microtrauma and edema. Twenty-four highly trained athletes (men = 12 and women = 12) volunteered to participate in this study. The athletes were randomly assigned to experimental (n = 12) and control (n = 12) groups. Pressure-to-pain threshold measurements were conducted with a manual algometer on 3 lower extremity muscles. Experimental group athletes underwent PPDC on both legs through computer-controlled circumferential inflated leggings that used a peristaltic-like pressure pattern from feet to groin. Pressures in each cell were set to factory defaults. Treatment time was 15 minutes. The control group performed the same procedures except that the inflation pump to the leggings was off. The experimental timeline included a morning training session, followed by a PPT pretest, treatment application (PPDC or control), an immediate post-test (PPT), and a delayed post-test (PPT) after the afternoon practice session. Difference score results showed that the experimental group's PPT threshold improved after PPDC treatment immediately and persisted the remainder of the day after afternoon practice. The control group showed no statistical change. We conclude that PPDC is a promising means of accelerating and enhancing recovery after the normal aggressive training that occurs in Olympic and aspiring Olympic athletes.
- Subjects :
- Adult
Male
Pain Threshold
medicine.medical_specialty
Adolescent
Pain
Microtrauma
Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation
Difference score
law.invention
Young Adult
Randomized controlled trial
law
Threshold of pain
Pressure
Humans
Medicine
Orthopedics and Sports Medicine
Muscle, Skeletal
Intermittent Pneumatic Compression Devices
Pain Measurement
Morning
biology
Groin
business.industry
Athletes
Myalgia
Recovery of Function
General Medicine
biology.organism_classification
medicine.disease
medicine.anatomical_structure
Lower Extremity
Training center
Physical therapy
Female
business
Sports
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 10648011
- Volume :
- 29
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....0f4c6907919f9e6131af60bfc22678cb