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- Title
Cerebellar Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation Improves Maximum Isometric Force Production during Isometric Barbell Squats.
- Authors
Kenville, Rouven; Maudrich, Tom; Maudrich, Dennis; Villringer, Arno; Ragert, Patrick
- Abstract
Maximum voluntary contraction force (MVC) is an important predictor of athletic performance as well as physical fitness throughout life. Many everyday life activities involve multi-joint or whole-body movements that are determined in part through optimized muscle strength. Transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) has been reported to enhance muscle strength parameters in single-joint movements after its application to motor cortical areas, although tDCS effects on maximum isometric voluntary contraction force (MIVC) in compound movements remain to be investigated. Here, we tested whether anodal tDCS and/or sham stimulation over primary motor cortex (M1) and cerebellum (CB) improves MIVC during isometric barbell squats (iBS). Our results provide novel evidence that CB stimulation enhances MIVC during iBS. Although this indicates that parameters relating to muscle strength can be modulated through anodal tDCS of the cerebellum, our results serve as an initial reference point and need to be extended. Therefore, further studies are necessary to expand knowledge in this area of research through the inclusion of different tDCS paradigms, for example investigating dynamic barbell squats, as well as testing other whole-body movements.
- Subjects
TRANSCRANIAL direct current stimulation; BARBELLS; MUSCLE strength; MOTOR cortex; PHYSICAL fitness; PREMOTOR cortex
- Publication
Brain Sciences (2076-3425), 2020, Vol 10, Issue 4, p235
- ISSN
2076-3425
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/brainsci10040235