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JOURNAL OF STRENGTH AND CONDITIONING RESEARCH
卷 35, 期 2, 页码 347-352出版社
LIPPINCOTT WILLIAMS & WILKINS
DOI: 10.1519/JSC.0000000000003876
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RPE; fatigue; afferent; DCS; tsDCS
The study found that transspinal direct current stimulation in the thoracic spine did not significantly affect cycling performance or perception of effort. Further research is needed to investigate the efficacy of different stimulation methods in enhancing human performance.
Ciccone, AB, Fry, AC, Emerson, DM, Gallagher, PM, Herda, TJ, and Weir, JP. Effects of transspinal direct current stimulation on cycling perception of effort and time to exhaustion. J Strength Cond Res 35(2): 347-352, 2021-In the past decade, researchers have investigated the efficacy of transspinal direct current stimulation (tsDCS) on the central nervous system and afferent neuron function in humans. Recently, data have suggested it may be possible for such tsDCS-induced changes in neuromuscular function to enhance performance. This study used noninvasive thoracic spine tsDCS to determine if cycling performance and perception of effort could be modulated by tsDCS. In 3 different stimulation conditions, anodal, cathodal, and sham, subjects cycled at 80% of their maximal aerobic capacity until exhaustion and reported their rating of perceived exertion (RPE) every minute. From this period, we compared the RPE responses over the first 3 minutes and time to exhaustion. There was no significant difference in time to exhaustion between anodal (408 +/- 121 seconds), cathodal (413 +/- 168 seconds), and sham (440 +/- 189 seconds) conditions (p = 0.58). There was no significant difference in RPE from minutes 1-3 (collapsed across time) between anodal (12.9 +/- 2.4 arbitrary units (AUs)), cathodal (13.3 +/- 2.2 AUs), and sham (12.9 +/- 2.1 AUs) conditions (p = 0.51). These data suggest tsDCS condition did not influence cycling performance or perception of effort during high-intensity cycling. Therefore, thoracic spine and lower abdominal montage delivering a current density of 0.071 mA center dot cm(-2) for 20 minutes likely does not substantially improve high-intensity cycling work capacity. Therefore, more research is needed to investigate the efficacy of tsDCS and which stimulation methods may and may not enhance human performance.
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