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Influence of Fast and Slow Imagined Muscle Contractions on Muscle Function or Central Nervous System Properties

Kennesaw State University · NCT06627491

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Key facts

Compensation
Not posted. Ask the study team before screening.
Who can join
Ages 18–30 · All sexes
Healthy volunteers
Accepted
Study type
Interventional · Not applicable
Target enrollment
18
US sites recruiting
1
Study start
October 2024
Record last updated
October 9, 2024

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What the study is about

The goal of this randomized clinical trial is to learn if imagining fast or slow muscle contractions causes different responses for nervous system excitability and muscle function in young, healthy males and females in. The main questions are:

Does imagining fast muscle contractions cause greater nervous system excitability compared to imagining slow muscle contractions?

Does imagining fast muscle contractions increase muscle function compared to imagining slow muscle contractions?

A control condition (rest) will be compared with two intervention conditions: imagining fast and imagining slow conditions, to determine if the fast and slow increase outcomes more than control and if fast has the greatest response.

Participants will

  • Attend 4 laboratory visits
  • Perform 50 imagined contractions fast or slow, but with no physical movement
  • Physical muscle contractions and non-invasive brain stimulation would be completed before and after each condition.

Being studied: Imagined muscle contractions

Conditions: Healthy

Eligibility criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

  • Be between the ages of 18 - 30
  • Healthy (no medical conditions)
  • If female, must be taking the same monophasic oral contraceptive for the past 6 months
  • Have a body mass index between 18.5 - 30 kg/m2
  • Have not performed structured cardiovascular or resistance exercise in past 3 years
  • Be right-handed
  • Not currently taking stimulants, antipsychotic, anxiety, or depression medications
  • Have not suffered an upper extremity musculoskeletal injury within the past year

Exclusion Criteria

  • If transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) is not deemed appropriate depending on your responses to the TMS-specific questionnaire
  • Being ambidextrous
  • Although rare, you will be excluded if discernable muscle activation responses are not possible via TMS

Recruiting US locations

  • Kennesaw State University

    Kennesaw, GA 30144

    Site contact: Garrett Hester, Ph.D. · 470-578-4267 · ghester4@kennesaw.edu

Study contacts (from the official record)

  • Garrett Hester, Ph.D. · 470-578-4267 · ghester4@kennesaw.edu
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