Focal Vibration for Enhancing Athletic Speed and Ppower

Universitat Internacional de Catalunya

Status: Not yet enrolling

Conditions: To Assess the Effectiveness of a Focal Vibration Treatment on Squat Power and Speed in Athletes Who Perform Squats

Treatments: Other: Sham focal vibration; Other: Focal Vibration

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06671951

CBAS-2023-05

Details and patient eligibility

About

A focal vibration device will be used to perform an activation and warm-up protocol before performing a set of 7 repetitions of squat with 60% of your 1RM.

Enrollment: 72 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 30 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Study participants must have signed the informed consent form to assess their inclusion in the study.
• Familiarity with the technique and practice of the weighted free squat.
• Training at least 3 times per week.

Exclusion criteria

• Volunteers who have suffered a sports injury during the last two months or are unable to perform physical activity.
• Have previously received an intervention with focal vibration.
• Not understanding the information provided by the therapist.
• Participate in other research studies.
• Be undergoing pharmacological medical treatment that may interfere with the measurements, such as treatment with anticonvulsants, antidepressants, etc.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Other

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Double Blind

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72 participants in 2 patient groups

Vibration group

Experimental group

Description:

The vibration group receives an intervention with focal vibration heads from Wintecare on the rectus femoris, vastus lateralis and vastus medialis , at the same time that the athelte is doing active muscle contractions.

Treatment:

Other: Focal Vibration

Sham group

Sham Comparator group

Description:

The placebo group receives the same protocol but the head of the focal vibration machine is not in contact with the patient's skin.

Treatment:

Other: Sham focal vibration