Preventive and regenerative foam rolling are equally effective in reducing
- Objectives of the study were to compare the effects of a single bout of preventive or regenerative foam rolling (FR) on exercise-induced neuromuscular exhaustion. Single-centre randomised-controlled study was designed. Forty-five healthy adults (22 female; 25±2 yrs) were allocated to three groups: 1) FR of the lower limb muscles prior to induction of fatigue, 2) FR after induction of fatigue, 3) no-treatment control. Neuromuscular exhaustion was provoked using a standardized and validated functional agility short-term fatigue protocol. Main outcome measure was the maximal isometric voluntary force of the knee extensors (MIVF). Secondary outcomes included pain and reactive strength (RSI). Preventive (-16%) and regenerative FR (-12%) resulted in a decreased loss in MIVF compared to control (-21%; p < 0.001) five minutes after exhaustion. Post-hoc tests indicated a large-magnitude, non-significant trend towards regenerative foam rolling to best restore strength (Cohen’s d > 0.8, p < 0.1). Differences over time (p < 0.001) between groups regarding pain and RSI did not turn out to be clinically meaningful. A single bout of foam rolling reduces neuromuscular exhaustion with reference to maximal force production. Regenerative rather than preventive foam rolling seems sufficient to prevent further fatigue.
Author: | Johannes FleckensteinORCiDGND, Jan WilkeORCiDGND, Lutz VogtGND, Winfried BanzerGND |
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-460934 |
ISSN: | 1303-2968 |
Pubmed Id: | https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29238246 |
Parent Title (English): | Journal of sports science & medicine |
Publisher: | Department of Sports Medicine, Medical Faculty of Uludag University |
Place of publication: | Bursa, Turkey |
Document Type: | Article |
Language: | English |
Year of Completion: | 2017 |
Date of first Publication: | 2017/12/01 |
Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
Release Date: | 2018/05/03 |
Tag: | Rehabilitation; manual medicine; neuromuscular fatigue; pain therapy; self-myofascial release; sports medicine |
Volume: | 16 |
Issue: | 4 |
Page Number: | 6 |
First Page: | 474 |
Last Page: | 479 |
Note: | This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. |
HeBIS-PPN: | 432018123 |
Institutes: | Psychologie und Sportwissenschaften / Sportwissenschaften |
Dewey Decimal Classification: | 7 Künste und Unterhaltung / 79 Sport, Spiele, Unterhaltung / 790 Freizeitgestaltung, darstellende Künste, Sport |
Sammlungen: | Universitätspublikationen |
Open-Access-Publikationsfonds: | Psychologie und Sportwissenschaften |
Licence (German): | Creative Commons - Namensnennung-Nicht kommerziell - Keine Bearbeitung 4.0 |