Compex Use With Delayed Onset Muscle Soreness: A Comparison to Other Methods

Launched by MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY · Oct 17, 2013

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• Inclusion Criteria:
• • The studied population will be composed of 45 physically active college students between the ages of 18-30 years old.
• • Inclusionary criteria will be participation in a physical activity as defined by the ACSM, which can be a mixture of moderate (i.e., sufficient to raise the heart rate and begin to sweat) and vigorous (i.e., breathing hard and fast with a rapidly rising heart rate) intensity aerobic activity and muscle strengthening (i.e., weights lifted to the point where anther repetition cannot be completed without help) activities two or more time per week (ACSM, 2011.)
• Exclusion Criteria:
• • Exclusionary criteria will be surgery within the last six months requiring immobilization for more than four weeks, discomfort performing intense physical activity, diseases like muscular dystrophy that predispose muscular damage beyond reasonable levels resulting from physical activity, and current injury of the knees or hips.