Massage as Recovery Strategy After Resistance Training

NCT05597423 | Completed

• 1 other identifier: ECM_22
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 58
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

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.

Conditions

Resistance Training

Keywords

Massage; Physical activity; Perception; Recovery

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (5)

• Perceptual parameters

  Post-Exercise Perception Questionnaire (topic before training). The questionnaire will assess the following perceptual parameters: well-being, physically prepared for training, mentally prepared for training, perception of mental fatigue, lower limb fatigue, lower limb muscle pain, sensation of lower limb muscle tension, lower limb muscle discomfort and perception of recovery. All parameters will be evaluated by a 5-point Likert scale (1=nothing; 2= a little; 3=moderate; 4=a lot; 5=extremely)

  Up to 4 weeks before all lower limb training

• Perceptual parameters

  Post-Exercise Perception Questionnaire (topic during training). The questionnaire will assess the following perceptual parameters: lower limb fatigue, lower limb muscle pain, sensation of lower limb muscle tension and lower limb muscle discomfort. All parameters will be evaluated by a 5-point Likert scale (1=nothing; 2= a little; 3=moderate; 4=a lot; 5=extremely)

  Up to 4 weeks during all lower limb training

• Perceptual parameters

  Post-Exercise Perception Questionnaire (topic after training). The questionnaire will assess the following perceptual parameters: well-being, perception of mental fatigue, lower limb fatigue, lower limb muscle pain, sensation of lower limb muscle tension, lower limb muscle discomfort and perception of recovery. All parameters will be evaluated by a 5-point Likert scale (1=nothing; 2= a little; 3=moderate; 4=a lot; 5=extremely)

  Up to 4 weeks after all lower limb training

• Perceptual parameters

  Post-Exercise Perception Questionnaire (topic after training). The questionnaire will assess the following perceptual parameters: well-being, perception of mental fatigue, lower limb fatigue, lower limb muscle pain, sensation of lower limb muscle tension, lower limb muscle discomfort and perception of recovery. All parameters will be evaluated by a 5-point Likert scale (1=nothing; 2= a little; 3=moderate; 4=a lot; 5=extremely)

  Up to 4 weeks after the application of intervention in all lower limb training

• Perceptual parameters

  Post-Exercise Perception Questionnaire (topic between trainings). The questionnaire will assess the following perceptual parameters: well-being, lower limb fatigue, lower limb muscle pain, sensation of lower limb muscle tension, lower limb muscle discomfort and perception of recovery. All parameters will be evaluated by a 5-point Likert scale (1=nothing; 2= a little; 3=moderate; 4=a lot; 5=extremely)

  5 minutes, 15 minutes, 30 minutes, 45 minutes, 1, 2, 4, 8, 12, 16, 20, 24, 48, 72 and 96 hours after the application of intervention in all lower limb training up to 4 weeks

Secondary Outcomes (18)

• Inferior limb power

  Change from baseline to 4 weeks

• Inferior limb power

  Up to 4 weeks change from baseline to after lower limb training

• Inferior limb power

  Up to 4 weeks change from baseline to after the application of intervention in lower limb training

• Lower limb strength

  Change from baseline to 4 weeks

• Muscle tone

  Up to 4 weeks change from baseline to after all lower limb training

Study Arms (3)

Massage

EXPERIMENTAL

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

Other: Massage

Placebo

PLACEBO COMPARATOR

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

Other: Placebo

Control

NO INTERVENTION

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

Interventions

Massage OTHER

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

Massage

Placebo 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.

Placebo

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 18 Years - 35 Years
• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Age Groups: Adult (18-64)

You may qualify if:

• 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.

You may not qualify if:

• 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.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• São Paulo State University: lead

Study Sites (1)

Sao Paulo State University

Presidente Prudente, São Paulo, 19060-900, Brazil

Location

MeSH Terms

Conditions

Motor Activity

Interventions

Massage

Condition Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Behavior

Intervention Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Therapy, Soft Tissue; Musculoskeletal Manipulations; Complementary Therapies; Therapeutics; Physical Therapy Modalities; Rehabilitation

Study Officials

• Carlos M Pastre, PhD

  São Paulo State University

  STUDY DIRECTOR

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: RANDOMIZED
• Masking: SINGLE
• Who Masked: OUTCOMES ASSESSOR
• Purpose: OTHER
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
• PI Title: Principal investigator

Model Details: All interventions will take place 10 minutes after the end of resistance training focused on the lower limbs (twice a week for four weeks). The intervention group will receive the massage for 16 minutes in 4 muscle groups bilaterally: i) quadriceps ii) calf iii) hamstrings iv) lower back. The techniques used will be the superficial effleurage followed by the deep effleurage, petrissage and tapotement. In the placebo group, the same cream used to perform the massage will be spread over the quadriceps, calf, hamstrings and lower back with three superficial slides on each musculature to spread the cream. This process will be carried out bilaterally and the participant will be asked to remain in the supine position for 16 minutes. In the control group, participants will be asked to rest for 16 minutes and the participants can be seated, standing or walking through the space during this period.

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: October 15, 2022
• First Posted: October 28, 2022
• Study Start: November 7, 2022
• Primary Completion: February 28, 2023
• Study Completion: February 28, 2023
• Last Updated: July 17, 2023

Record last verified: 2023-07

Data Sharing

• IPD Sharing: Will not share

Locations

BR (1)