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Effects of pre-exercise acupuncture stimulation on heart rate response during short-duration exercise

BACKGROUND: The purpose of the present study was to investigate the effects of bradycardia induced by pre-exercise acupuncture on heart rate responses during short-duration exercise. METHODS: A total of 29 healthy subjects underwent two protocols: protocol 1 assessed the effects of manual acupunctur...

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Autores principales: Nakahara, Hidehiro, Ueda, Shin-ya, Kawai, Eriko, Higashiura, Rui, Miyamoto, Tadayoshi
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8520193/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34656165
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13102-021-00358-1
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author Nakahara, Hidehiro
Ueda, Shin-ya
Kawai, Eriko
Higashiura, Rui
Miyamoto, Tadayoshi
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Ueda, Shin-ya
Kawai, Eriko
Higashiura, Rui
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description BACKGROUND: The purpose of the present study was to investigate the effects of bradycardia induced by pre-exercise acupuncture on heart rate responses during short-duration exercise. METHODS: A total of 29 healthy subjects underwent two protocols: protocol 1 assessed the effects of manual acupuncture on heart rate response during rest, and protocol 2 tested the hypothesis that the bradycardic effects induced by pre-exercise acupuncture continue during low- and high-intensity exercise. Their average age, height, weight, and body mass index were 21.2 ± 2.0 years, 167.2 ± 8.8 cm, 63.8 ± 12.8 kg, and 22.7 ± 3.5 kg/m(2), respectively. In acupuncture stimulations for protocols 1 and 2, an acupuncture needle was inserted into the lower leg and manual acupuncture stimulation was performed at 1 Hz. RESULTS: In protocol 1 (resting condition), acupuncture stimulation induced a bradycardic response, which continued for 4 min after the cessation of acupuncture stimulation (p < 0.05). In protocol 2, the bradycardic response induced by pre-exercise acupuncture stimulation remained during low-intensity exercise and in the beginning of high-intensity exercise performed immediately after the cessation of acupuncture stimulation (p < 0.05). However, the effects disappeared when post-acupuncture exercise was performed when the heart rate was approximately 140 beats/min during high-intensity exercise. The rating of perceived exertion after exercise differed significantly between the acupuncture stimulation task (7.9 ± 1.6) and no-stimulation task (8.5 ± 2.0) (p = 0.03) only in the low intensity group. CONCLUSION: This study may provide new insights into the effect of acupuncture stimulation on psycho-physiological conditions during exercise.
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spelling pubmed-85201932021-10-20 Effects of pre-exercise acupuncture stimulation on heart rate response during short-duration exercise Nakahara, Hidehiro Ueda, Shin-ya Kawai, Eriko Higashiura, Rui Miyamoto, Tadayoshi BMC Sports Sci Med Rehabil Research BACKGROUND: The purpose of the present study was to investigate the effects of bradycardia induced by pre-exercise acupuncture on heart rate responses during short-duration exercise. METHODS: A total of 29 healthy subjects underwent two protocols: protocol 1 assessed the effects of manual acupuncture on heart rate response during rest, and protocol 2 tested the hypothesis that the bradycardic effects induced by pre-exercise acupuncture continue during low- and high-intensity exercise. Their average age, height, weight, and body mass index were 21.2 ± 2.0 years, 167.2 ± 8.8 cm, 63.8 ± 12.8 kg, and 22.7 ± 3.5 kg/m(2), respectively. In acupuncture stimulations for protocols 1 and 2, an acupuncture needle was inserted into the lower leg and manual acupuncture stimulation was performed at 1 Hz. RESULTS: In protocol 1 (resting condition), acupuncture stimulation induced a bradycardic response, which continued for 4 min after the cessation of acupuncture stimulation (p < 0.05). In protocol 2, the bradycardic response induced by pre-exercise acupuncture stimulation remained during low-intensity exercise and in the beginning of high-intensity exercise performed immediately after the cessation of acupuncture stimulation (p < 0.05). However, the effects disappeared when post-acupuncture exercise was performed when the heart rate was approximately 140 beats/min during high-intensity exercise. The rating of perceived exertion after exercise differed significantly between the acupuncture stimulation task (7.9 ± 1.6) and no-stimulation task (8.5 ± 2.0) (p = 0.03) only in the low intensity group. CONCLUSION: This study may provide new insights into the effect of acupuncture stimulation on psycho-physiological conditions during exercise. BioMed Central 2021-10-16 /pmc/articles/PMC8520193/ /pubmed/34656165 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13102-021-00358-1 Text en © The Author(s) 2021 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) ) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data.
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Nakahara, Hidehiro
Ueda, Shin-ya
Kawai, Eriko
Higashiura, Rui
Miyamoto, Tadayoshi
Effects of pre-exercise acupuncture stimulation on heart rate response during short-duration exercise
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title_full Effects of pre-exercise acupuncture stimulation on heart rate response during short-duration exercise
title_fullStr Effects of pre-exercise acupuncture stimulation on heart rate response during short-duration exercise
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title_short Effects of pre-exercise acupuncture stimulation on heart rate response during short-duration exercise
title_sort effects of pre-exercise acupuncture stimulation on heart rate response during short-duration exercise
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8520193/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34656165
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13102-021-00358-1
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