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Assessment of the Acute Effect of Cycling Practice in Lumbar and Thigh Muscles

NCT03442933 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 40

Last updated 2019-08-12

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Summary

Introduction: Cycling represents a very important level of practice, being among the most practiced sports in Spain. As in any other sport discipline, its practice is associated with the appearance of overloads and sports injuries. Specifically, the 2 most affected areas are the lumbar and knee areas, with an annual prevalence of 58% and 36%, respectively. There is no clear hypothesis to explain the low back pain associated with the practice of cycling, but several authors agree that it may be due to holding an inverted posture of the rachis and the characteristics associated with this sport: long duration, static posture, high intensities, vibrations generated by the terrain, and so forth. The project proposes to analyze the acute effect of a long-lasting bicycle trip (3 hours) on the muscles involved in low back and knee pain, see, lumbar paravertebral, quadriceps and hamstrings, by means of tensiomyography (TMG).

Objectives: the main objective of this study is to evaluate the behavior of the mechanical characteristics of the lower back and thigh muscles, by means of tensiomyography, in amateur cyclists after an acute effort on road and mountain bikes, and to study their possible relationship with low back pain (LBP).

Conditions

Interventions

OTHER

3 hours Road Cycling Time Trial

The road itinerary is a mixed route profile of 90 km, an elevation gain of 900 m, with mixed sections, flat, uphill and down over roads with little traffic.

OTHER

3 hours Mountain Biking Time Trial

The mountain itinerary, is a mixed route of 55 km, an elevation gain of 600 m, with sections of wide tracks and trails, flat, uphill and down, with a medium technical difficulty.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Universidad Europea de Madrid

    lead OTHER

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
BASIC_SCIENCE
Masking
QUADRUPLE
Model
CROSSOVER

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Max Age
55 Years
Sex
MALE
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2017-12-14
Primary Completion
2018-05-05
Completion
2018-06-13

Countries

  • Spain

Study Locations

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