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Acute Effects of Vibration Foam Rolling with Light and Moderate Pressure on Blood Pressure and Senior Fitness Test in Older Women
- Source :
- International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, Vol 18, Iss 11186, p 11186 (2021), International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, Volume 18, Issue 21
- Publication Year :
- 2021
- Publisher :
- MDPI AG, 2021.
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Abstract
- Vibration foam rolling (VR) can improve flexibility and sports performance. However, blood pressure (BP), heart rate (HR) and senior fitness test (SFT) responses induced by an acute VR session in older women are currently unknown. Fifteen healthy women (72.90 ± 4.32 years) completed three separated randomly sequenced experimental visits. During each visit, they started with a warm-up protocol (general warm up (GW): walking + static stretching (SS), SS + VR with light pressure (VRL), or SS + VR with moderate pressure (VRM)), and completed BP, HR, SFT measurements. The systolic BP increased significantly after all three warm up protocols (p &lt<br />0.05). Both VRL and VRM protocols induced statistically significant improvements (effect size range: 0.3–1.04, p &lt<br />0.05) in the senior fitness test (back scratch, 30 s chair stand, 30 s arm curl, and 8 foot up and go), as compared to the GW. In addition, the VRM showed greater improvement for the 2 min step test when comparing with the VRL. Therefore, including VR in a warm-up protocol can result in superior SFT performance enhancement than the GW does in healthy older women.
- Subjects :
- Acute effects
medicine.medical_specialty
Warm-Up Exercise
Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis
Blood Pressure
Vibration
Article
Static stretching
Muscle Stretching Exercises
Heart rate
Humans
Medicine
Range of Motion, Articular
Aged
business.industry
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
stretching
flexibility
Blood pressure
Fitness test
Physical Fitness
Step test
Physical therapy
Female
Foam rolling
warm up
arterial pressure
strength
business
Performance enhancement
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 16604601
- Volume :
- 18
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....b446dcdc1695b8e8e0db1e0f2bd9f71a