A Single Session of tDCS (Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation) Improves Endurance for 30 Minutes

University of Liege

Status: Completed

Conditions: Healthy; Athlete

Treatments: Device: TDCS

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03901508

2017/29

Details and patient eligibility

About

Healthy recreational athletes will undergo a session of anodal tDCS (transcranial direct current stimulation) or sham tDCS.

The primary outcome is an isokinetic evaluation of their hamstrings' and quadriceps' strength before and after each session

Full description

Healthy recreational athletes will be recruited through social media and advertisements.

Each subject came to the Liege University Hospitals' isokinetic lab. Each session began with strapping the subjet into the isokinetic machine, making sure that all the settings were adapted to the subject. Then, each subject underwent a concentric and eccentric isokinetic test of their lower limbs (dominant or non-dominant side depending on their group). Subjects then received either anodal tDCS, of sham tDCS. Neither the evaluator or the subject knew which they were receiving. Immediately following tDCS, there was a another isokinetic test, and 30 minutes after the second test, a subjects underwent a third test.

Enrollment: 20 patients

Sex: Male

Ages: 18 to 30 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Between 3 and 5 hours of sport a week
• Right handed and footed

Exclusion criteria

• One on the TSST (in high and relatively high risk sections)
• Previous neurological or orthopedic pathologies affecting limbs

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Triple Blind

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20 participants in 2 patient groups

Anodal tDCS

Experimental group

Description:

Subjects will receive 20min anodal tDCS

Treatment:

Device: TDCS

Sham tDCS

Sham Comparator group

Description:

Subjects will receive 20 minutes of Sham anodal tDCS

Treatment:

Device: TDCS