Fatigue, Muscle Fatigue
Conditions
Interventions
Experimental group: 40 athletes will receive massage on quadriceps during seven minutes. All participants will receive the same kind of massage.
Control group: 40 athletes will not receive treatment,
Other
Sponsors
Universidade do Estado de Santa Catarina
Universidade do Estado de Santa Catarina
Eligibility
Age
18 Years to 55 Years
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: Athletes aged between 18 and 55 years; of both gender; they must complete triathlon's competition of middle and long distance and they must go to the physiotherapy sector of the competition; with pain in the muscles of the quadriceps femoris.
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: Presence of excoriation in the thigh area; perform other intervention to change to the sensitivity as cryotherapy, analgesic or anesthetic on site assessment; presence of neurological or musculoskeletal disease that interferes or contraindicate the procedures for intervention and/or measurement; metabolic and severe breathing disorders; cramps during the assessment procedures or intervention.
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Participants will be assessed before massage or rest, and immediately after them. Alteration of quadriceps pain, assessed by pressure algometer and check the pressure threshold where there is a change of feeling pressure to painful sensation. Three points will be measured in the thigh (belly of the rectus femoris, vastus lateralis, vastus medialis) | — |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Reduction of pain and fatigue measured by visual analogue scale. It will be solicitated to participants a score of 0-10 for their pain and fatigue, which 0 is no pain and no fatigue, and 10 is the worst pain ever felt tired and maximum. | — |
Countries
Brazil
Contacts
Public ContactGuilherme Nunes
Universidade do Estado de Santa Catarina
Outcome results
None listed