NCT02530190

Investigation of Popular Recovery Techniques for Ultramarathon Recovery

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 108 (actual)
• Sponsor: Western States Endurance Run Research Foundation · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The study is a randomized clinical trial examining the effectiveness of massage and intermittent pneumatic compression on recovery from a 161-km ultramarathon.

Detailed description

The study is a randomized clinical trial examining the effectiveness of massage and intermittent pneumatic compression on recovery from a 161-km ultramarathon. Participants of the 2015 161-km Western States Endurance Run were randomized to a 20-minute post-race intervention of massage, intermittent pneumatic compression or supine rest. Each subject completed two 400 m runs at maximum speed before the race, and on days 3 and 5 after the race, and also provided muscle pain and soreness ratings and overall muscular fatigue scores before and for 7 days after the race.

Conditions

• Musculoskeletal Pain

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DEVICE	intermittent pneumatic compression	20 minutes of intermittent pneumatic compression to lower extremities
PROCEDURE	massage	20 minutes of massage to lower extremities

Timeline

• Start date: 2015-05-01
• Primary completion: 2015-07-01
• Completion: 2015-07-01
• First posted: 2015-08-20
• Last updated: 2015-08-20

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States