Trial reportJournal of athletic training2015
Short-Wave Diathermy Pretreatment and Inflammatory Myokine Response After High-Intensity Eccentric Exercise.
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- Effects of Post-Exercise Heat Exposure on Acute Recovery and Training-Induced Performance Adaptations: A Systematic Review.Sports medicine - open · 2025Pooled it
- Astragalosides Supplementation Enhances Intrinsic Muscle Repair Capacity Following Eccentric Exercise-Induced Injury.Nutrients · 2022Trial
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- Isolated and Combined Effects of Cold, Heat and Hypoxia Therapies on Muscle Recovery Following Exercise-Induced Muscle Damage.Sports medicine (Auckland, N.Z.) · 2025Review
- Combined exercise-induced modulation of Notch pathway and muscle quality in senescence-accelerated mice.Pflugers Archiv : European journal of physiology · 2025Article
- Effects of repeated use of post-exercise infrared sauna on neuromuscular performance and muscle hypertrophy.Frontiers in sports and active living · 2025Article
- Targeted Therapy for Skeletal Muscle Fibrosis: Regulation of Myostatin, TGF-β, MMP, and TIMP to Maintain Extracellular Matrix Homeostasis.Biologics : targets & therapy · 2025Review
- Effectiveness of Microwave Therapy Combined with Berberine /GelMA via COX-2/IL-1β Pathway to Treat Skeletal Muscle Injury: An in vivo Study in Rats.International journal of nanomedicine · 2025Article
- Efficacy and safety of ultra-short wave diathermy on COVID-19 pneumonia: a pioneering study.Frontiers in medicine · 2023Article
- Notch, Numb and Numb-like responses to exercise-induced muscle damage in human skeletal muscle.Experimental physiology · 2022Article
- Muscle temperature kinetics and thermoregulatory responses to 42 °C hot-water immersion in healthy males and females.European journal of applied physiology · 2020Article
- Turning Up the Heat: An Evaluation of the Evidence for Heating to Promote Exercise Recovery, Muscle Rehabilitation and Adaptation.Sports medicine (Auckland, N.Z.) · 2018Review
- Does high muscle temperature accentuate skeletal muscle injury from eccentric exercise?Physiological reports · 2016Article
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6 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
contextVarious modalities have been used to pretreat skeletal muscle to attenuate inflammation.
objectiveTo determine the effects of short-wave diathermy (SWD) preheating treatment on inflammation and stress markers after eccentric exercise.
designControlled laboratory study.
settingUniversity laboratory setting. PATIENTS OR OTHER
participantsFifteen male (age = 22 ± 4.9 years, height = 179.75 ± 9.56 cm, mass = 82.22 ± 12.67 kg) college-aged students. INTERVENTION(S): Seven participants were selected randomly to receive 40 minutes of SWD heat treatment (HT), and 8 participants served as the control (CON) group and rested without SWD. Both groups completed 7 sets of 10 repetitions of a high-intensity eccentric exercise protocol (EEP) at 120% of the 1-repetition maximum (1-RM) leg extension. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURE(S): We biopsied muscles on days 1, 3 (24 hours post-EEP), and 4 (48 hours post-EEP) and collected blood samples on days 1, 2 (4 hours post-EEP), 3, and 4. We determined 1-RM on day 2 (24 hours post-SWD) and measured 1-RM on days 3 and 4. We analyzed the muscle samples for interleukin 6 (IL-6), tumor necrosis factor α, and heat shock protein 70 and the blood for serum creatine kinase.
resultsWe found a group × time interaction for intramuscular IL-6 levels after SWD (F2,26 = 7.13, P = .003). The IL-6 decreased in HT (F1,6 = 17.8, P = .006), whereas CON showed no change (P > .05). We found a group × time interaction for tumor necrosis factor α levels (F2,26 = 3.71, P = .04), which increased in CON (F2,14 = 7.16, P = .007), but saw no changes for HT (P > .05). No group × time interactions were noted for 1-RM, heat shock protein 70, or creatine kinase (P > .05).
conclusionsThe SWD preheating treatment provided a treatment effect for intramuscular inflammatory myokines induced through high-intensity eccentric exercise but did not affect other factors associated with intense exercise and inflammation.
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