NCT03893604

Effects of tDCS on High Level and Recreational Athletes

Comparing the Effects of tDCS on Endurance Parameters Between High Level and Recreational Athletes

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 60 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Liege · Academic / Other
• Sex: Male
• Age: 18 Years – 30 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

Healthy recreational and high level athletes will undergo 2 randomized, cross-over counterbalanced sessions of anodal tDCS or sham tDCS. The primary outcome is an isokinetic evaluation of their hamstrings' and quadriceps' endurance after each session

Detailed description

Recruitment : Healthy recreational and high level athletes will be recruited through social media and advertisements. Each subject came twice to the Liege University Hospitals' isokinetic lab. Each session began with strapping the subjet into the isokinetic machine, making sure that all the settings were adapted to the subject. Then, each subject received either anodal tDCS, of sham tDCS. Neither the evaluator or the subject knew which they were receiving. Immediately following tDCS, there was a warmup consisting of stationary bike, and an isokinetic warmup. Then, subjects' endurance was using a maximal isokinetic tests, at 30 maximal concentric and eccentric contractions at a speed of 180°/s.

Conditions

• Healthy
• Athlete

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DEVICE	tDCS	20 minutes of anodal tDCS (C3/FP2) 2mA or sham

Timeline

• Start date: 2019-03-31
• Primary completion: 2019-06-30
• Completion: 2019-06-30
• First posted: 2019-03-28
• Last updated: 2020-03-31

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Belgium