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Effects of jaw clenching wearing customized mouthguards on agility, power and vertical jump in male high-standard basketball players

BACKGROUND/OBJECTIVE: Basketball players commonly use mouthguards for protecting their mouths from collisions with other players. Besides, literature reports that specific types of mouthguards may become an ergogenic device that facilitates a powerful jaw clenching, and a subsequent concurrent activ...

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Autores principales: Buscà, Bernat, Moreno-Doutres, Daniel, Peña, Javier, Morales, Jose, Solana-Tramunt, Mònica, Aguilera-Castells, Joan
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Publicado: The Society of Chinese Scholars on Exercise Physiology and Fitness 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6323169/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30662485
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jesf.2017.11.001
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author Buscà, Bernat
Moreno-Doutres, Daniel
Peña, Javier
Morales, Jose
Solana-Tramunt, Mònica
Aguilera-Castells, Joan
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Moreno-Doutres, Daniel
Peña, Javier
Morales, Jose
Solana-Tramunt, Mònica
Aguilera-Castells, Joan
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description BACKGROUND/OBJECTIVE: Basketball players commonly use mouthguards for protecting their mouths from collisions with other players. Besides, literature reports that specific types of mouthguards may become an ergogenic device that facilitates a powerful jaw clenching, and a subsequent concurrent activation potentiation through this remote voluntary contraction of the mandible muscles. METHODS: A randomized within-subjects design was used to study the effects of this mechanism on muscular performance (vertical jump, agility, bench press power and leg press power) into two different conditions (mouthguard and no mouthguard) in high-standard basketball players (n = 13). A mean differences analysis and a responder analysis were conducted. RESULTS: Significant improvements were found (p < 0.05) in all vertical jump protocols using the mouthguard when compared to the no mouthguard conditions. However, no significant differences were found between the two conditions in agility and power (except in one load of bench press). Nevertheless, p-values were closer to statistical significance when analyzing the total time for the agility T-Test than when the first split time was under consideration (p = 0.111 and p = 0.944, respectively). CONCLUSION: This study demonstrated that the use of custom-made, bite-aligning mouthguard had an ergogenic effect on jump outcomes and inconclusive results in agility T-Test in professional basketball players. From the results obtained in the present study, the use of this type of mouthguards seems to be more justified in power actions on the court than in the strength and conditioning sessions at the gym in well-trained players.
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spelling pubmed-63231692019-01-18 Effects of jaw clenching wearing customized mouthguards on agility, power and vertical jump in male high-standard basketball players Buscà, Bernat Moreno-Doutres, Daniel Peña, Javier Morales, Jose Solana-Tramunt, Mònica Aguilera-Castells, Joan J Exerc Sci Fit Original Article BACKGROUND/OBJECTIVE: Basketball players commonly use mouthguards for protecting their mouths from collisions with other players. Besides, literature reports that specific types of mouthguards may become an ergogenic device that facilitates a powerful jaw clenching, and a subsequent concurrent activation potentiation through this remote voluntary contraction of the mandible muscles. METHODS: A randomized within-subjects design was used to study the effects of this mechanism on muscular performance (vertical jump, agility, bench press power and leg press power) into two different conditions (mouthguard and no mouthguard) in high-standard basketball players (n = 13). A mean differences analysis and a responder analysis were conducted. RESULTS: Significant improvements were found (p < 0.05) in all vertical jump protocols using the mouthguard when compared to the no mouthguard conditions. However, no significant differences were found between the two conditions in agility and power (except in one load of bench press). Nevertheless, p-values were closer to statistical significance when analyzing the total time for the agility T-Test than when the first split time was under consideration (p = 0.111 and p = 0.944, respectively). CONCLUSION: This study demonstrated that the use of custom-made, bite-aligning mouthguard had an ergogenic effect on jump outcomes and inconclusive results in agility T-Test in professional basketball players. From the results obtained in the present study, the use of this type of mouthguards seems to be more justified in power actions on the court than in the strength and conditioning sessions at the gym in well-trained players. The Society of Chinese Scholars on Exercise Physiology and Fitness 2018-04 2017-12-01 /pmc/articles/PMC6323169/ /pubmed/30662485 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jesf.2017.11.001 Text en © 2017 The Society of Chinese Scholars on Exercise Physiology and Fitness. Published by Elsevier (Singapore) Pte Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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Buscà, Bernat
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Morales, Jose
Solana-Tramunt, Mònica
Aguilera-Castells, Joan
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title Effects of jaw clenching wearing customized mouthguards on agility, power and vertical jump in male high-standard basketball players
title_full Effects of jaw clenching wearing customized mouthguards on agility, power and vertical jump in male high-standard basketball players
title_fullStr Effects of jaw clenching wearing customized mouthguards on agility, power and vertical jump in male high-standard basketball players
title_full_unstemmed Effects of jaw clenching wearing customized mouthguards on agility, power and vertical jump in male high-standard basketball players
title_short Effects of jaw clenching wearing customized mouthguards on agility, power and vertical jump in male high-standard basketball players
title_sort effects of jaw clenching wearing customized mouthguards on agility, power and vertical jump in male high-standard basketball players
topic Original Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6323169/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30662485
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jesf.2017.11.001
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