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Active recovery affects the recovery of the corticospinal system but not of muscle contractile properties

PURPOSE: Active recovery is often used by athletes after strenuous exercise or competition but its underlying mechanisms are not well understood. We hypothesized that active recovery speeds-up recovery processes within the muscle and the central nervous system (CNS). METHODS: We assessed muscular an...

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Autores principales: Giboin, Louis-Solal, Amiri, Ehsan, Bertschinger, Raphael, Gruber, Markus
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5951565/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29758055
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0197339
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author Giboin, Louis-Solal
Amiri, Ehsan
Bertschinger, Raphael
Gruber, Markus
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description PURPOSE: Active recovery is often used by athletes after strenuous exercise or competition but its underlying mechanisms are not well understood. We hypothesized that active recovery speeds-up recovery processes within the muscle and the central nervous system (CNS). METHODS: We assessed muscular and CNS recovery by measuring the voluntary activation (VA) in the vastus lateralis muscle with transcranial magnetic stimulation (VA(TMS)) and peripheral nerve stimulation (VA(PNS)) during maximal voluntary contractions (MVC) of the knee extensors in 11 subjects. Measurements were performed before and after a fatiguing cycling time-trial, after an active and a passive recovery treatment and after another fatiguing task (1 min MVC). The measurements were performed a second time 24 h after the time-trial. RESULTS: We observed a time × group interaction effect for VA(TMS) (p = 0.013). Post-hoc corrected T-tests demonstrated an increased VA(TMS) after active recovery when measured after the 1 min MVC performed 24 h after the time-trial (mean ± SD; 95.2 ± 4.1% vs. 89.2 ± 6.6%, p = 0.026). No significant effects were observed for all other variables. CONCLUSIONS: Active recovery increased aspects of central, rather than muscle recovery. However, no effect on MVC was seen, implying that even if active recovery speeds up CNS recovery, without affecting the recovery of muscle contractile properties, this doesn´t translate into increases in overall performance.
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spelling pubmed-59515652018-05-25 Active recovery affects the recovery of the corticospinal system but not of muscle contractile properties Giboin, Louis-Solal Amiri, Ehsan Bertschinger, Raphael Gruber, Markus PLoS One Research Article PURPOSE: Active recovery is often used by athletes after strenuous exercise or competition but its underlying mechanisms are not well understood. We hypothesized that active recovery speeds-up recovery processes within the muscle and the central nervous system (CNS). METHODS: We assessed muscular and CNS recovery by measuring the voluntary activation (VA) in the vastus lateralis muscle with transcranial magnetic stimulation (VA(TMS)) and peripheral nerve stimulation (VA(PNS)) during maximal voluntary contractions (MVC) of the knee extensors in 11 subjects. Measurements were performed before and after a fatiguing cycling time-trial, after an active and a passive recovery treatment and after another fatiguing task (1 min MVC). The measurements were performed a second time 24 h after the time-trial. RESULTS: We observed a time × group interaction effect for VA(TMS) (p = 0.013). Post-hoc corrected T-tests demonstrated an increased VA(TMS) after active recovery when measured after the 1 min MVC performed 24 h after the time-trial (mean ± SD; 95.2 ± 4.1% vs. 89.2 ± 6.6%, p = 0.026). No significant effects were observed for all other variables. CONCLUSIONS: Active recovery increased aspects of central, rather than muscle recovery. However, no effect on MVC was seen, implying that even if active recovery speeds up CNS recovery, without affecting the recovery of muscle contractile properties, this doesn´t translate into increases in overall performance. Public Library of Science 2018-05-14 /pmc/articles/PMC5951565/ /pubmed/29758055 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0197339 Text en © 2018 Giboin et al http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Active recovery affects the recovery of the corticospinal system but not of muscle contractile properties
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title_full Active recovery affects the recovery of the corticospinal system but not of muscle contractile properties
title_fullStr Active recovery affects the recovery of the corticospinal system but not of muscle contractile properties
title_full_unstemmed Active recovery affects the recovery of the corticospinal system but not of muscle contractile properties
title_short Active recovery affects the recovery of the corticospinal system but not of muscle contractile properties
title_sort active recovery affects the recovery of the corticospinal system but not of muscle contractile properties
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5951565/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29758055
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0197339
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