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Imagined Muscle Contractions and Muscle Function Study

This study is looking at how imagining fast or slow muscle contractions affects your nervous system and muscle function. Researchers want to see if imagining fast contractions makes your nervous system more excited or improves muscle function compared to imagining slow contractions or just resting. You might be able to join if you are a healthy person between 18 and 30 years old, have not exercised much in the past three years, and meet other specific health criteria. The study aims to enroll 18 participants, but its current status is unclear.

Study design
This is an interventional study planning to enroll 18 healthy participants. It compares imagining fast muscle contractions, imagining slow muscle contractions, and a rest condition.
What's involved
You would complete 4 lab visits in a randomized order, including a familiarization session and sessions involving imaginary muscle contractions. During these sessions, you will complete sets of imagined muscle contractions, and researchers will measure your nervous system and muscle responses before and after.
Compensation
Not stated in the trial record.
Follow-up
Measurements are taken at Baseline and at minute 20 during each condition, indicating a short follow-up period within each visit.

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NCT06627491

Influence of Fast and Slow Imagined Muscle Contractions on Muscle Function or Central Nervous System Properties

Recruiting
NAAges 18–30InterventionalBasic science
Kennesaw State University
~18 participants
Updated 2024-10-09 on ClinicalTrials.gov
What's tested:Imagined muscle contractions

At a glance

Recruiting sites
1 of 1 listed site is recruiting right now
RecruitingSuspended, closed, or not yet open
What they're measuring
Change in rate of torque development as measured by newton-meters per second
Measured over Baseline, minute 20
+1 more outcome measured

Conditions

Healthy

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Where it's being run

1 sites across 1 states
Georgia1

Who to contact

Garrett Hester, Ph.D.
[email protected]
470-578-4267
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Eligibility criteria

Inclusion

Be between the ages of 18 - 30
Healthy (no medical conditions)
If female, must be taking the same monophasic oral contraceptive for the past 6 months
Have a body mass index between 18.5 - 30 kg/m2
Have not performed structured cardiovascular or resistance exercise in past 3 years
Be right-handed
Not currently taking stimulants, antipsychotic, anxiety, or depression medications
Have not suffered an upper extremity musculoskeletal injury within the past year

Exclusion

If transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) is not deemed appropriate depending on your responses to the TMS-specific questionnaire
Being ambidextrous
Although rare, you will be excluded if discernable muscle activation responses are not possible via TMS

What this trial measures

  • Change in rate of torque development as measured by newton-meters per secondBaseline, minute 20

    A measure of the capacity to increase muscle torque rapidly as determined by the slope of the torque-time curve

  • Change in nervous system excitability as measured by electromyographic waveform aplitude following motor cortex stimulationBaseline, minute 20

    A measure of excitability for the corticospinal tract