Hood to Coast Injury Study

Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU)

Status and phase

Completed

Phase 4

Conditions

Pain

Treatments

Dietary Supplement: Fruit juice

Dietary Supplement: Tart Cherry Juice

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT00733395

e4652

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to examine how certain kinds of fruit juice that contain natural antioxidants and natural anti-inflammatory properties may reduce exercise-induced muscle pain and injury. Participants will be recruited from registered participants in the Hood To Coast Relay. The Hood To Coast Relay Race Officials will post the study on their website to find interested teams. Interested participants will then be contacted by the study staff by phone regarding the study's inclusion and exclusion criteria and to schedule the initial health screening visit. The participants will undergo an initial health screening and survey about muscle soreness, and then drink the investigational juice twice daily for 8 days. On the 7th day of drink administration, the participants will report to the starting location of the Hood To Coast Relay to meet with the investigators for 30 minutes to survey muscle pain and juice tolerability. The participants will then participate in the Hood To Coast Relay, drinking 2 more bottles of juice over the duration of the relay. At the conclusion of the relay, the participants will meet with study investigators to take the same short survey about muscle pain and juice tolerability.

Enrollment

65 patients

Sex

All

Ages

18 to 50 years old

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Ability and willingness not to take any anti-inflammatory or pain relieving drugs during the course of the study, and not to seek any other treatment for any symptoms of muscle damage until completion of the study after the race.

Exclusion criteria

The investigators will exclude individuals who have or are using antiepileptic drugs for pain, acupuncture, or transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation within 3 weeks before enrollment
Recent use (within 5 half-lives) of topical medications/anesthetics, muscle relaxants, tender point anesthetic injections within 2 months, systemic steroids within 3 months or any investigational drug/device in the prior 30 days.