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- Title
Reliability of resting intramuscular fiber conduction velocity evaluation.
- Authors
Methenitis, S.; Karandreas, N.; Terzis, G.
- Abstract
Characterization of the least number of muscle fibers analyzed for a quick and reliable, evaluation of intramuscular fiber conduction velocity (MFCV) is of importance for sport scientists. The aim of this study was to evaluate the reliability of vastus lateralis' intramuscular MFCV measuring either 25 or 50 different muscle fibers per participant, as well as to compare intramuscular MFCV measured in 25 (C25), 50 (C50), or 140 (C140) muscle fibers. Resting vastus lateralis' MFCV was measured in 21 young healthy males (age 22.1±2.4 years) using intramuscular microelectrodes in different days. Test‐retest reliability of MFCV's parameters was calculated for C25 and C50, while MFCV was compared among C25, C50, and C140. Significant differences of MFCV parameters were observed between C25 condition and those of C50 and C140. The differences in MFCV values between conditions C50 and C140 were non‐significant. A close correlation was found for MFCV between C50 and C140 (<italic>r</italic>=0.884‐0.988, <italic>P</italic>=.000). All reliability measures of MFCV measured with 50 fibers were high (eg, ICC=0.813‐0.980, <italic>P</italic>=.000), in contrast to C25 (eg, ICC=0.023‐0.580 <italic>P</italic>>.05). In conclusion, an average of 50 different fibers per subject is sufficient to provide a quick and reliable intramuscular evaluation of vastus lateralis MFCV.
- Subjects
MUSCLE physiology; QUADRICEPS muscle physiology; CONFIDENCE intervals; STATISTICAL correlation; ELECTRODES; GOODNESS-of-fit tests; RESEARCH methodology; NEURAL conduction; PROBABILITY theory; RESEARCH evaluation; STATISTICS; STATISTICAL power analysis; DATA analysis; STATISTICAL reliability; STATISTICAL significance; RESEARCH methodology evaluation; DATA analysis software; DESCRIPTIVE statistics; ONE-way analysis of variance; INTRACLASS correlation
- Publication
Scandinavian Journal of Medicine & Science in Sports, 2018, Vol 28, Issue 1, p48
- ISSN
0905-7188
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/sms.12908