Erschienen in:
25.04.2019 | Brief Report
Are the ergogenic effects of photobiomodulation therapy age-dependent? A randomized double-blinded placebo-controlled trial
verfasst von:
Carolina Gassen Fritsch, Laura Ayang Folgiarini, Natália Sgarioni Gomes, Marco Aurélio Vaz, Bruno Manfredini Baroni
Erschienen in:
Lasers in Medical Science
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In 2006, Lopes-Martins et al. [
1] demonstrated, for the first time, that specific doses of photobiomodulation therapy (PBMT) were capable of decreasing the muscular fatigue process in rats. Two years later, Leal-Junior et al. [
2] reported performance enhancement in humans with PBMT applied before exercise with free weights until exhaustion. Thenceforth, several studies have been published with PBMT before different exercise protocols [
3‐
5]. In sight of the growing number of research papers in the field, the most recent meta-analysis concluded that PBMT may reduce muscle fatigue and improve exercise performance [
6], while possible mechanisms have been hypothesized in the literature [
7]. …