Full Body Photobiomodulation Therapy to Induce Faster Muscle Recovery in Water Polo Athletes: Preliminary Results

Zagatto, Alessandro Moura; Dutra, Yago Medeiros; Lira, Fábio Santos; Antunes, Bárbara de Moura Mello; Faustini, Júlia Bombini; Malta, Elvis de Souza; Lopes, Vithor Hugo Fialho; Poli, Rodrigo Araújo Bonetti de; Brisola, Gabriel Motta Pinheiro; Santos, Giovanny Viegas dos; Rodrigues, Fabio M; Ferraresi, Cleber

doi:10.1089/photob.2020.4803

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“…In terms of results carried out with whole-body PBM devices, these did not produce positive outcomes, as reported by Ghigiarelli et al [56], or other researchers in a very recent study [68].…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 55%

“…In another randomized, parallel, and double-blind study in 13 young male athletes, Zagatto et al applied whole-body photobiomodulation therapy or placebo after official water polo matches and investigated the markers of inflammation, hormonal responses (testosterone and cortisol), heart rate variability, maximal voluntary contraction, squat jump, and the muscular damage. Whole-body PBMT had no effect in improving hormonal and cardiac responses or recovery from the inflammatory muscle damage, except a decrease in LDH, but only after one match [68].…”

Section: Studies With No Effects Of Pbmmentioning

confidence: 78%

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Photobiomodulation and Sports: Results of a Narrative Review

Ailioaie

Litscher

2021

Life

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Benefits of photobiomodulation (PBM) have been known for several decades. More recently, PBM applied in sports offers a special chance to support the modeling of the performance and recovery. Increasingly complex physical activities and fierce competition in the world of sports generate a state of psycho-emotional and physical stress that can induce chronic fatigue syndrome, failure in physical training, predisposition to muscle damage, physical and emotional exhaustion etc., for which PBM could be an excellent solution. To evaluate and identify all risk factors and the influence of PBM on health and performance in sport and for a better understanding of its effects, we did a search for “Photobiomodulation and Sports” on PubMed, to update the PBM science applied in sports, and we retained for analysis the articles published from 2014 to date. The term “PBM” is recent, and we did not include previous studies with “low level laser therapy” or “LLLT” before 2014. In the present research, PBM has been shown to have valuable protective and ergogenic effects in 25 human studies, being the key to success for high performance and recovery, facts supported also by 22 animal studies. PBM applied creatively and targeted depending on sport and size of the level of physical effort could perfectly modulate the mitochondrial activity and thus lead to remarkable improvements in performance. PBM with no conclusive results or without effects from this review (14 studies from a total of 39 on humans) was analyzed and we found the motivations of the authors from the perspective of multiple causes related to technological limitations, participants, the protocols for physical activity, the devices, techniques and PBM parameters. In the near future, dose–response experiments on physical activity should be designed and correlated with PBM dose–response studies, so that quantification of PBM parameters to allow the energy, metabolic, immune, and neuro-endocrine modulation, perfectly coupled with the level of training. There is an urgent need to continuously improve PBM devices, delivery methods, and protocols in new ingenious future sports trials. Latest innovations and nanotechnologies applied to perform intracellular signaling analysis, while examining extracellular targets, coupled with 3D and 4D sports motion analysis and other high-tech devices, can be a challenge to learn how to maximize PBM efficiency while achieving unprecedented sports performance and thus fulfilling the dream of millions of elite athletes.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 55%

Section: Studies With No Effects Of Pbmmentioning

confidence: 78%

Photobiomodulation and Sports: Results of a Narrative Review

Ailioaie

Litscher

2021

Life

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“…This lack of effects of laser PBM on RPE and muscle performance in our study and others involving biceps brachii muscle (Higashi et al, 2013) in contrast to the positive effects observed on the quadriceps muscle (Toma et al, 2018) raises the possibility that laser PBM may have different effects on small and large muscles. However, this supposition is not supported by recent studies that have found no positive effect on physical performance and markers of muscle recovery and damage following the PBM irradiation by light-emitting diodes (LEDs) or laser to the larger muscles or the whole body in young adult men (Zagatto et al, 2016(Zagatto et al, , 2020Malta et al, 2018;Peserico et al, 2019;Dutra et al, 2020;Ghigiarelli et al, 2020). Therefore, in light of our findings and that of others, its seems that the lack of positive effect of PBM is more associated with the inherent ineffectiveness of the therapy itself than with other factors, such as the type of irradiation (laser or LED), sex, and irradiated muscle.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 95%

Photobiomodulation Therapy at 808 nm Does Not Improve Biceps Brachii Performance to Exhaustion and Delayed-Onset Muscle Soreness in Young Adult Women: A Randomized, Controlled, Crossover Trial

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ObjectiveThis study aims to investigate the effects of laser photobiomodulation (PBM) at 808 nm on biceps brachii performance to exhaustion, rating of perceived exertion (RPE), and delayed onset muscle soreness (DOMS) in untrained young women.MethodsThirteen young women (20.1 ± 2.9 years) participated in a crossover study in which they received, in a counterbalanced manner, active and placebo laser PBM on two occasions (T1 and T2), separated by a 7-day washout period. During T1 and T2, participants received active (100 mW output power, irradiance of 35.7 W cm–2, and total energy of 28 J/arm) or placebo laser irradiation on the biceps brachii muscle at 20 min before the repetitions-to-failure test [six sets at 60% of one-repetition maximum (1RM) until failure] for elbow flexion exercise. The number of repetitions performed and RPE over the six sets, as well as DOMS from basal up to 72 h after the repetitions-to-failure test, were recorded.ResultsThere was a significant (time, p < 0.05) reduction in the number of repetitions performed and an increase in RPE over six sets, with no statistical differences between placebo and active laser conditions (treatment × time, p > 0.05). DOMS increased at 24 h postexercise and progressively returned to baseline after 72 h in both conditions (time, p < 0.05; treatment × time, p > 0.05).ConclusionOur results indicate that acute laser PBM at 808 nm does not improve biceps brachii performance to exhaustion, RPE, and DOMS in untrained women.

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“…A total of five studies ( Tables 1 , 2 ), were detected from the scientific literature and included ( Botonis et al, 2021a ; Botonis et al, 2021c ; Botonis et al, 2022 ; McCormick et al, 2016 ; Zagatto et al, 2020 ). Two studies were published in 2021 ( Botonis et al, 2021a ; Botonis et al, 2021c ), two in 2020 ( Botonis et al, 2022 ; Zagatto et al, 2020 ) and one in 2016 ( McCormick et al, 2016 ), which means that they were published in the last 5 years, being current. Besides, a total of 49 athletes participated in the review.…”

Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Among evaluated studies, one proposed an intervention with the intake of supplemental tart cherry juice ( McCormick et al, 2016 ) and another with the full-body photobiomodulation therapy (PMBT) ( Zagatto et al, 2020 ). Moreover, three studies were published in a journal with index factor Q1 ( Botonis et al, 2021a , 2022 ; McCormick et al, 2016 ) and one in Q3 ( Zagatto et al, 2020 ).…”

Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Recovery in water polo: how much do we have to know? A systematic review

Barrenetxea-Garcia¹,

Murua-Ruiz²,

Nuell³

et al. 2022

J Exerc Rehabil

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Water polo (WP) is a high-intensity intermittent aquatic sport, with a predominance of swimming skills and nonswimming activities and incomplete recovery periods. Consequently, recovery after exercise is a fundamental part of sports performance. The main purpose of this systematic review was to evaluate the effects of different recovery strategies in WP performance. The studies were found by searching in the databases of PubMed, Web of Science, and Scopus. Methodological quality and risk of bias were assessed in accordance with the Cochrane Collaboration Guidelines samples. A summary of results including five studies was followed. The results show that supplementation with cherry juice before training does not imply improvements in recovery; the full-body photobiomodulation therapy reduces muscle damage; reducing training load during the season increased the natural logarithm of the root mean square of successive differences and perceived state of recovery, and the heart rate variability stabilizes and could progressively increase at the end of a tournament; and when an increase in internal training load is less than 60%–70% autonomic cardiac disturbances during preseason training do not occur. Recovery in WP is a very limited field of study that needs future research in active recovery, hydrotherapy, massage, rest and sleep to help coaches formulate recommendations.

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Full Body Photobiomodulation Therapy to Induce Faster Muscle Recovery in Water Polo Athletes: Preliminary Results

Cited by 11 publications

References 20 publications

Photobiomodulation and Sports: Results of a Narrative Review

Photobiomodulation and Sports: Results of a Narrative Review

Photobiomodulation Therapy at 808 nm Does Not Improve Biceps Brachii Performance to Exhaustion and Delayed-Onset Muscle Soreness in Young Adult Women: A Randomized, Controlled, Crossover Trial

Recovery in water polo: how much do we have to know? A systematic review

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