Athletic Performance, Disability, Disabled Persons, Wheelchair Users
Conditions
Keywords
Athlete, Disabled persons, Exercise, Pain, Proprioception, Upper extremity
Brief summary
No study was found that investigated the effect of vibration therapy (VT) on recovery from exercise in WCB players. Therefore, the aim of the study was to investigate the effects of wearable local vibration device on muscle soreness and athletic performance during recovery from exercise in the elbow area in WCB players.
Detailed description
Vibration therapy (VT) has been widely used to increase performance and rehabilitate injuries in athletes. Delayed onset muscle soreness (DOMS), caused by excessive overload after training and competitions, leads to loss of performance. The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of wearable local VT on muscle soreness and athletic performance in wheelchair basketball (WCB) players.
Interventions
DEVICEVibration
Local vibration was applied
Sponsors
Karabuk University
Study design
Allocation
NON_RANDOMIZED
Intervention model
CROSSOVER
Primary purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE (Outcomes Assessor)
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Healthy volunteers
No
Inclusion criteria
* Being a wheelchair basketball players
Exclusion criteria
* Having had an upper extremity operation within the last 6 months
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Muscle Soreness | pre-exercise (baseline), and 30 minutes and 24 hours post-exercise | Muscle soreness was evaluated for both arms of the athletes with the Numeric Pain Scale. This scale is horizontally scored between 0-10 (0 = no pain, 10 = unbearable pain). |
| Shooting percentage | pre-exercise (baseline), and 30 minutes and 24 hours post-exercise | The participants were asked to shoot 10 free throws in total from the free throw line with the wheelchair after a warmup. The percentage of successful throws was accepted as the shooting percentage value of the athletes (number of successful throws x 100 / total number of throws). |
| 20-meter sprint test | pre-exercise (baseline), and 30 minutes and 24 hours post-exercise | For the test, a 20-meter track was created on the basketball court floor, and 2 meters were added to the distance and marked so that the athletes would not slow down on the last meters. The time to complete the 20-meter track with the ready and start command of the participants was recorded with a stopwatch. |
| Joint position sense | pre-exercise (baseline), and 30 minutes and 24 hours post-exercise | Joint position sense was evaluated with the passive to active joint repositioning method using a digital inclinometer device. The participants sat with the elbow extended and eyes closed on their wheelchairs. The target angles were selected 30°, 60° and 90° of the elbow joint. |
| Range of motion | pre-exercise (baseline), and 30 minutes and 24 hours post-exercise | Both elbow joint extension/flexion angles were measured with a universal goniometer (baseline) with the arm in anatomical position on the wheelchair. |
Countries
Turkey (Türkiye)
Outcome results
None listed