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ReviewSports (Basel, Switzerland)2026

Anodal Motor-Cortex Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation and Explosive Lower-Limb Power in Healthy Active Adults: A Sham-Controlled Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.

Taeseok Choi, Hanshin Jeong, Yohan Uhm

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Review in Sports (Basel, Switzerland), 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Taeseok ChoiDepartment of Physical Therapy, Kunjang University, Gunsan 54045, Republic of Korea.
Hanshin JeongDepartment of Physical Therapy, Kunjang University, Gunsan 54045, Republic of Korea.
Yohan UhmDepartment of Physical Therapy, Kunjang University, Gunsan 54045, Republic of Korea.

Funding

Kunjang RISE Center R25-T2-S1-KJ-01
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Anodal transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) over the primary motor cortex (M1) has been proposed as an ergogenic aid. Prior reviews pooled heterogeneous outcomes, and none isolated explosive lower-limb power or separated jump output from force-time kinetics. We asked whether anodal M1 tDCS versus sham improves explosive lower-limb power in healthy active adults, analysing these two outcome categories separately. Following PRISMA 2020 (PROSPERO CRD420261438841), four databases were searched up to 3 July 2026 for randomised and crossover trials. Random-effects meta-analyses (REML with Hartung-Knapp) pooled Hedges'

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explosive powermeta-analysismotor cortexneuromodulationrate of force developmenttranscranial direct current stimulationvertical jump

Identifiers

PMID42784397
PMCPMC13611768

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