1st International Sport Science Tourism and Recreation-Student Congress, Antalya, Türkiye, 21 - 23 Mayıs 2014, ss.155
Extensive line of evidence suggest that pain threshold
and tolerance alters following exercise, although the
mechanisms have not been elucidated yet. In this study,
we investigated the role of sport massage on pressure
pain threshold and tolerance in athletes under eccentric
exercise. Ten male athletes aged 23 ± 1 years with 9.67 ±
3.04 years of athletic training were recruited for this
study. Following baseline measurements of pressure
pain threshold and tolerance from m. biceps brachii and
m. triceps brachii muscle and myofascial regions of the
dominant upper extremity by using a digital algometer,
subjects were underwent an acute bout of eccentric
exercise. Participants were completed 4 sets of eccentric
exercise each comprising 20 repetitions of lifting 80% of
their 1 RM by using a dumbbell. Pressure pain threshold
and tolerance tests were repeated 10, 20 and 30
minutes, and 24 and 48 hours following exercise. One
week after eccentric exercise, sport massage protocol
for 10 minutes was manually administered to the
dominant arm of the participants, and all measurements
were repeated at the same timeline as eccentric
exercise. Results are presented as mean + standarts
deviation. Data of the same timeline were analyzed by
using t test. A level of p<0.05 was accepted statistical
significant. Eccentric exercise resulted to increase the
pain tolerance from muscle and myofascia regions of m.
biceps and triceps brachii, and sport massage was found
to decrease the pain tolerance at 10 minutes from
muscle regions of m. biceps and triceps brachii, 10, 20
and 30 minutes from m. myofascial region of biceps
brachii, and 20 minutes, 24 and 36 hours from
myofascial region of m. triceps brachii following acute
bout of eccentric exercise in athletes. We concluded that
sport massage reduces the hypoalgesic response during
acute and delayed period of recovery after eccentric
exercise.Keywords: eccentric exercise, exercise-induced
hypoalgesia, sport massage, pain tolerance