Electrostimulation’s Enhancement of Recovery During a Rugby Preseason

2013 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 92-98 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. Martyn Beaven ◽  
Christian Cook ◽  
David Gray ◽  
Paul Downes ◽  
Ian Murphy ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Creatine Kinase ◽  
Stress State ◽  
Venous Blood ◽  
Combined Treatment ◽  
Venous Blood Flow ◽  
Recovery Stress ◽  
Compression Garment ◽  
Compression Garments ◽  
Salivary Testosterone ◽  
Rugby Players

Rugby preseason training involves high-volume strength and conditioning training, necessitating effective management of the recovery-stress state to avoid overtraining and maximize adaptive gains.Purpose:Compression garments and an electrostimulation device have been proposed to improve recovery by increasing venous blood flow. These devices were assessed using salivary testosterone and cortisol, plasma creatine kinase, and player questionnaires to determine sleep quality, energy level, mood, and enthusiasm.Methods:Twenty-five professional rugby players were assigned to 1 of 2 treatments (compression garment or a concurrent combination of electrostimulation and compression) in a crossover design over 2 × 2-wk training blocks.Results:Substantial benefits were observed in self-assessed energy levels (effect size [ES] 0.86), and enthusiasm (ES 0.80) as a result of the combined treatment when compared with compression-garment use. The combination treatment had no discernable effect on salivary hormones, with no treatment effect observed. The electrostimulation device did tend to accelerate the return of creatine kinase to baseline levels after 2 preseason rugby games when compared with the compression-garment intervention (ES 0.61; P = .08).Conclusions:Electrostimulation elicited psychometric and physiological benefits reflective of an improved recovery-stress state in professional male rugby players when combined with a lower-body compression garment.

Preconditioning Strategy in Rugby-7s Players: Beneficial or Detrimental?

2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (7) ◽  
pp. 918-926 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bruno Marrier ◽  
Alexandre Durguerian ◽  
Julien Robineau ◽  
Mounir Chennaoui ◽  
Fabien Sauvet ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Stress State ◽  
Testing Session ◽  
Recovery Stress ◽  
Match Play ◽  
Warm Up ◽  
Salivary Testosterone ◽  
Repeated Sprint ◽  
Psychophysiological State ◽  
Priming Exercise ◽  
Rugby Players

Purpose: Preconditioning strategies are considered opportunities to optimize performance on competition day. Although investigations conducted in rugby players on the effects of a morning preconditioning session have been done, additional work is warranted. The aim of this study was to monitor changes in physical and psychophysiological indicators among international Rugby-7s players after a priming exercise. Methods: In a randomized crossover design, 14 under-18 international Rugby-7s players completed, at 8:00 AM, a preconditioning session consisting of a warm-up followed by small-sided games, accelerations, and 2 × 50-m maximal sprints (Experimental), or no preloading session (Control). After a 2-h break, the players performed a set of six 30-m sprints and a Rugby-7s match. Recovery–stress state and salivary stress-marker levels were assessed before the preloading session (Pre), immediately after the preloading session (Post 1), before the testing session (Post 2), and after the testing session (Post 3). Results: Experimental–Control differences in performance across a repeated-sprint test consisting of six 30-m sprints were very likely trivial (+0.2, ±0.7%, 3/97/1%). During the match, the total distance covered and the frequency of decelerations were possibly lower (small) in Experimental compared with Control. Differences observed in the other parameters were unclear or possibly trivial. At Post 2, the perceived recovery–stress state was improved (small difference) in Experimental compared with Control. No difference in salivary cortisol response was observed, while the preconditioning session induced a higher stimulation of salivary testosterone and α-amylase. Conclusions: The players’ ability to repeat sprints and physical activity in match play did not improve, but their psychophysiological state was positively affected after the present preconditioning session.

scholarly journals Effect of combined treatment on indices of liver venous blood flow in chronic opisthorchosis patients

2008 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 76-80
Author(s):  
O. A. Poddubnaya ◽  
Ye. F. Levitsky ◽  
I. Yu. Lyapunova
Keyword(s):  
Blood Flow ◽  
Functional State ◽  
Color Doppler ◽  
Venous Blood ◽  
Combined Treatment ◽  
Venous Blood Flow ◽  
X Ray ◽  
Epigastric Region ◽  
Liver Mapping ◽  
Liver Hemodynamics

At chronic opisthorchosis, disorders of venous blood flow in liver are observed in color Doppler liver mapping. To improve venous blood flow indices and the functional state of the hepatobiliary system as a whole, combined treatment should include factors not only ensuring the antiparasitic, antiphlogistic, and cholagogic effect, but also improving liver hemodynamics. This problem can be solved by combination of measures including morning exercises, pine baths, intake of cholagogic herbs with the following transversal galvanization in the epigastric region, and background x-ray radiation.

Norethynodrel with mestranol and venous blood flow

JAMA ◽  
1966 ◽  
Vol 198 (7) ◽  
pp. 784-785 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Neistadt
Keyword(s):  
Blood Flow ◽  
Venous Blood ◽  
Venous Blood Flow

Superior sagittal sinus thrombosis induced by thyrotoxicosis

2001 ◽  
Vol 94 (1) ◽  
pp. 130-132 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cheng-Shyuan Rau ◽  
Chun-Chung Lui ◽  
Cheng-Loong Liang ◽  
Han-Jung Chen ◽  
Yeh-Lin Kuo ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Intracranial Hemorrhage ◽  
Superior Sagittal Sinus ◽  
Sinus Thrombosis ◽  
Venous Blood ◽  
Fibrinogen Concentration ◽  
Venous Blood Flow ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Sagittal Sinus ◽  
Low Protein ◽  
Diffuse Goiter

✓ There is a wide variety of disorders associated with thrombosis of the superior sagittal sinus (SSS), including infectious disease, noninfectious conditions such as vasculitis and hypercoagulable states, and complications arising from pregnancy or use of oral contraceptive medications. Despite these well-defined associations, approximately 25% of the cases remain idiopathic. In this article the authors describe a patient who was found to have SSS thrombosis while experiencing a thyrotoxic phase of Graves disease. The patient presented with intracerebral hemorrhage, subarachnoid hemorrhage, seizure, coma, a raised fibrinogen concentration, low protein C activity, and atrial fibrillations. Thrombolysis was successfully performed despite the coexistence of thrombosis and intracranial hemorrhage. Patients with thyrotoxicosis and a diffuse goiter may be predisposed to the development of SSS thrombosis, as a result of hypercoagulation and stasis of local venous blood flow. In the present case, a patient in whom thrombosis coexisted with intracranial hemorrhage was successfully treated using thrombolytic therapy.

scholarly journals Recovery-Stress Response of Blood-Based Biomarkers

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (11) ◽  
pp. 5776
Author(s):  
Sebastian Hacker ◽  
Thomas Reichel ◽  
Anne Hecksteden ◽  
Christopher Weyh ◽  
Kristina Gebhardt ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Calcium Binding ◽  
Tissue Repair ◽  
Elite Athletes ◽  
Venous Blood ◽  
Soccer Players ◽  
Recovery Stress ◽  
Blood Samples ◽  
Time Points ◽  
S100 Calcium Binding Protein ◽  
Stress States

The purpose of this study was to investigate blood-based biomarkers and their regulation with regard to different recovery-stress states. A total of 35 male elite athletes (13 badminton, 22 soccer players) were recruited, and two venous blood samples were taken: one in a ‘recovered’ state (REC) after a minimum of one-day rest from exercise and another one in a ‘non-recovered’ state (NOR) after a habitual loading microcycle. Overall, 23 blood-based biomarkers of different physiologic domains, which address inflammation, muscle damage, and tissue repair, were analyzed by Luminex assays. Across all athletes, only creatine kinase (CK), interleukin (IL-) 6, and IL-17A showed higher concentrations at NOR compared to REC time points. In badminton players, higher levels of CK and IL-17A at NOR were found. In contrast, a higher value for S100 calcium-binding protein A8 (S100A8) at REC was found in badminton players. Similar differences were found for BDNF in soccer players. Soccer players also showed increased levels of CK, and IL-6 at NOR compared to REC state. Several molecular markers were shown to be responsive to differing recovery-stress states, but their suitability as biomarkers in training must be further validated.

scholarly journals Relationship between tissue factor expression and deposition of fibrin, platelets, and leukocytes on cultured endothelial cells under venous blood flow conditions

Blood ◽  
1993 ◽  
Vol 81 (8) ◽  
pp. 2050-2058 ◽  
Author(s):  
D Kirchhofer ◽  
KS Sakariassen ◽  
M Clozel ◽  
TB Tschopp ◽  
P Hadvary ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Endothelial Cells ◽  
Tissue Factor ◽  
Cross Section ◽  
Leukocyte Adhesion ◽  
Venous Blood ◽  
Cell Contact ◽  
Venous Blood Flow ◽  
Necrosis Factor Alpha ◽  
Endothelial Surface ◽  
Platelet Aggregates

Abstract Endothelial cell-mediated coagulation and leukocyte adhesion are processes that might be connected by the generation of thrombin. To examine the interaction of procoagulant and proadhesive activity, cultures of endothelial cells were stimulated with tumor necrosis factor-alpha, which resulted in the surface expression of tissue factor. Subsequent exposure to human nonanticoagulated blood at a shear rate of 100 s-1 in a parallel plate perfusion device led to the deposition of polymerized fibrin, which covered 63% of the endothelial surface. In addition, numerous platelet aggregates (71 per 10 mm cross- section) and leukocytes (53 +/- 6/mm2) were deposited on stimulated endothelial cells, whereas no fibrin and only a few platelet aggregates (4 +/- 1 per 10 mm cross-section) and leukocytes (6 +/- 1/mm2) were detected on control cells. A significant portion of the adherent leukocytes bound to fibrin and platelets. However, when the deposition of fibrin and platelet aggregates was inhibited with the anti-tissue factor antibody HTFI-7B8 by 100% and 86%, respectively, leukocyte adherence remained unchanged (68 +/- 6/mm2). This indicated that leukocytes could efficiently adhere to endothelial cells through direct cell-cell contact independent of both thrombin and deposited fibrin. Moreover, this direct adhesion of leukocytes to the endothelial surface was reduced twofold to threefold when fibrin deposition occurred. These data suggest a relationship between endothelial procoagulant and proadhesive properties in that tissue factor-initiated coagulation may contribute to leukocyte adhesion through the formation of an adhesive fibrin/platelet meshwork but concurrently prevents the adhesive endothelial surface to bind leukocytes at its full capacity.

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