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Non-invasive Assessments of Subjective and Objective Recovery Characteristics Following an Exhaustive Jump Protocol

DOI: 10.3791/55612-v
What you'll learn
  • ✓ Perform countermovement jump protocols to induce controlled muscular fatigue
  • ✓ Apply and compare cold-cuff versus thermoneutral-cuff recovery modalities
  • ✓ Conduct non-invasive recovery assessments over 72-hour period
  • ✓ Interpret subjective and objective recovery characteristic trends
Protocol

This protocol describes the procedure for non-invasive recovery assessments during a 72 h recovery period. This protocol induces muscular exhaustion of the frontal thighs using countermovement jumps and uses either local cold-cuff or thermoneutral-cuff application as a recovery modality.

Difficulty
intermediate
Total time
~72 hours (including 3-day recovery monitoring; active protocol ~2 hours)

Steps

1
Select participants and familiarize with countermovement jumps

Recruit eligible participants and conduct baseline familiarization sessions with countermovement jump (CMJ) testing to ensure proper technique and establish baseline performance measures.

▶ 01:02
2
Collect baseline physiological and performance measures

Establish pre-protocol baseline data including muscular function, subjective well-being, and other recovery-related objective markers before exhaustive jump induction.

▶ 02:10
3
Execute exhaustive jump protocol with recovery application

Perform exhaustive countermovement jumps targeting frontal thigh muscle fatigue, immediately followed by randomized application of either cold-cuff or thermoneutral-cuff recovery modality.

▶ 03:57
4
Conduct non-invasive recovery assessments across 72 hours

Perform repeated non-invasive measurements of subjective (soreness, fatigue perception) and objective (jump performance, muscle function) recovery markers at designated time points over the 72-hour recovery window.

▶ 05:34
5
Analyze and interpret recovery characteristic trends

Examine data trends in both subjective and objective recovery measures to compare efficacy of cold-cuff versus thermoneutral-cuff modalities and characterize recovery trajectories.

▶ 06:38
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