Massage as Recovery Strategy After Resistance Training

NCT ID: NCT05597423

Last Updated: 2023-07-17

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: COMPLETED
• Clinical Phase: NA
• Total Enrollment: 58 participants
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2022-11-07
• Study Completion Date: 2023-02-28

Brief Summary

Within the routine of resistance training, stimulus are implemented to meet predetermined goals for its practitioners. In order for there to be a balance in the imposed loads, a recovery period is necessary for supercompensation to occur. Recovery is a multifactorial process and to consider an individual recovered it is necessary to respect the integration of physiological, biomechanical and psychological factors, in addition, perceptual markers, which are not widely investigated in the literature, seem to be effective recovery markers. Massage is a technique that stands out for its wide use after physical exercise in order to help accelerate the recovery process. In the literature, studies that investigated the influence of massage on performance did not find positive results and some authors question the real need to apply the technique to aid recovery. However, in the perceptual parameters, massage seems to have a good influence, such as pain reduction, perception of fatigue and improvement in the perception of recovery. Thus, understanding the experience that massage can provide during a training period can be an important outcome along with variables already used. The hypothesis of this study is that massage will improve perceptual parameters over a training period and, consequently, will improve the experience between training sessions without positively or negatively interfering in performance.

Detailed Description

A sample of 120 participants will be recruited for the study. This is a parallel randomized controlled clinical trial lasting 4 weeks, each week will consist of 5 resistance training sessions. Participants will be randomized into three groups, control, intervention or placebo. Interventions will take place after training focused on the lower limbs. The intervention group will receive a massage for 16 minutes, in the placebo group the massage cream will be applied and the participants will be asked to remain in the supine position for 16 minutes and the control group will wait the same time at rest. All participants will perform an initial assessment consisting of an initial screening questionnaire, referred morbidity index, jump test and strength test. At the beginning, during and at the end of each lower limb training, after the interventions over 96 hours, the perceptual parameters will be evaluated and the assessment of muscle tone and stiffness, elasticity, mechanical stress relaxation time and creep will be before and after the training and after the intervention. On the second day of the lower limb training on each week, the Squat Jump Test will be evaluated before, after training and after the intervention. At the end of the 4 weeks of training, the participant will perform evaluations of functional and strength outcomes. At the end of the study, the preference of the participant and the cost-benefit of the technique will also be evaluated. Participant satisfaction will be evaluated after the technique. At the end of each week and at the end of the study, a balance of outcomes will be carried out. At the end of the study, the participant will also answer a questionnaire about sensations during training to perform a qualitative analysis. Data will be described as mean and standard deviation or median and interquartile range depending on the data distribution. Data normality will be tested by the Shapiro-Wilk test. Comparisons between techniques and associations will be performed using generalized mixed models with post Bonferroni test. All analyzes will assume a significance level of p>0.05.

Conditions

Resistance Training

Study Design

• Allocation Method: RANDOMIZED
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Primary Study Purpose: OTHER
• Blinding Strategy: SINGLE

Study Groups

Massage

The massage will be applied twice a week for a period of four weeks, 10 minutes after the end of lower limb training.

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

Massage

Intervention Type: OTHER

The massage will be applied for 16 minutes on the quadriceps, calf, hamstrings and lower back bilaterally with 4 different pressures.

Placebo

The massage cream will be applied twice a week for a period of four weeks, 10 minutes after the end of lower limb training.

Group Type: PLACEBO_COMPARATOR

Placebo

Intervention Type: OTHER

The cream will be applied to the quadriceps, calf, hamstring and lower back bilaterally and the participant will wait 16 minutes lying down in the supine position.

Control

The control group after 10 minutes of the end of lower limb training will remain at rest for 16 minutes.

Group Type: NO_INTERVENTION

No interventions assigned to this group

Interventions

Massage

The massage will be applied for 16 minutes on the quadriceps, calf, hamstrings and lower back bilaterally with 4 different pressures.

Intervention Type: OTHER

Placebo

The cream will be applied to the quadriceps, calf, hamstring and lower back bilaterally and the participant will wait 16 minutes lying down in the supine position.

Intervention Type: OTHER

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

• age between 18 to 35 years;
• practice resistance training for at least 2 months;
• train at least 5 times a week;
• not having suffered an injury in the last 6 months in the lower limbs;
• not being a smoker.

Exclusion Criteria

• use anti-inflammatory and/or analgesic medication during the study period;
• present an inflammatory process during the study period;
• not reaching 80% frequency in lower limb training during the study period.

• Minimum Eligible Age: 18 Years
• Maximum Eligible Age: 35 Years
• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes

Sponsors

São Paulo State University

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Flávia Carvalho

Principal investigator

Responsibility Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Principal Investigators

Carlos M Pastre, PhD

Role: STUDY_DIRECTOR

São Paulo State University

Locations

Sao Paulo State University

Presidente Prudente, São Paulo, Brazil

Countries

Brazil

Other Identifiers

ECM_22

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id