Mental Fatigue Clinical Trial
Official title:
Examining the Influence of Fatigue on Anticipatory Postural Adjustments of the Trunk Muscles and Movement-related Cortical Potentials in Healthy Subjects During a Rapid Arm Task Perturbation
Verified date | December 2023 |
Source | University Ghent |
Contact | n/a |
Is FDA regulated | No |
Health authority | |
Study type | Interventional |
This study aims at examining the influence of both physically and cognitively induced fatigue on trunk motor control on the one hand and brain activity related to movement preparation on the other hand, in healthy adult subjects. Furthermore, a comparison between the effects of both types of fatigue will be made. For this purpose a motor control task will be performed and compared before and after 3 specific interventions: i.e. a control intervention, a physical task and a cognitive task. Muscle and brain activity will be measured during each motor control task. It is hypothesised that motor control will not be altered after a control task, i.e. seated rest for 45 minutes. With regards to the physical fatigue condition, it is expected that trunk muscles will contract earlier after this task than before due to altered motor control. Cognitive fatigue is hypothesised to have similar underlying processes as physical fatigue, thus a similar earlier muscle contraction is also expected after cognitive fatigue. Lastly, as both types of fatigue are expected to induce a similar effect on motor control no significant differences between cognitive and physical fatigue are hypothesised. However, it is possible that the magnitude of this effect differs between types of fatigue, i.e. that 1 of both types has a bigger effect on motor control than the other. With regards to brain activity in preparation of a motor control task similar hypotheses are formulated: no effect of the control task on brain activity, earlier and possibly increased brain activity after both fatiguing tasks, and no differences between both types of fatigue besides a possible difference in magnitude of effect.
Status | Completed |
Enrollment | 22 |
Est. completion date | February 24, 2018 |
Est. primary completion date | February 24, 2018 |
Accepts healthy volunteers | Accepts Healthy Volunteers |
Gender | All |
Age group | 18 Years to 45 Years |
Eligibility | Inclusion Criteria: - Healthy adult subjects. Exclusion Criteria: - People with a history of pain or current pain - severe pathologies - traumata - cardiorespiratory disorders - neurological disorders - vestibular disorders - endocrinologic disorders - psychiatric and cognitive disorders - colour blindness - sleeping disorders - psychological disorders or major depressions - major surgery to the spine or upper limbs - clinically relevant malalignments and deformities - malignancies - substance abuse of alcohol or drugs - consumption of analgesics without prescription 24 hours or with prescription two weeks before testing - use of psychotropic medication - extreme physical activities two days before testing - professional athletes - pregnant women or women < 1 year postnatally |
Country | Name | City | State |
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Belgium | Vakgroep REVAKI (Ghent University - Ghent University Hospital) | Ghent |
Lead Sponsor | Collaborator |
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University Ghent |
Belgium,
Type | Measure | Description | Time frame | Safety issue |
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Primary | Trunk muscle EMG latency | Latency of the activation onset of the trunk muscles on EMG compared to prime mover onset (Anterior Deltoid) in milliseconds. | 2 hours | |
Primary | Contingent Negative Variation | A cortical EEG-potential that reflects movement preparation in the timeframe between a warning cue and a go cue in Volt. | 2 hours | |
Secondary | Visual Analogue Scale for Fatigue | A self-reported rating by participants for experienced general fatigue, which was assessed at baseline, after every RAM and after the condition-specific interventions. Participants had to indicate on a horizontal axis of 10 cm how fatigued they were with at the left side of the axis (0) 'not fatigued at all' and on the right side of the axis (10) 'maximally fatigued/worst fatigue ever experienced'. The numeric score (0-10) was calculated by the researcher and was not visible for participants. | 10 seconds for every measurement | |
Secondary | Rating of Perceived Exertion/Borg | A self-reported rating by participants for assessing how fatiguing a specific task/intervention was. This was assessed after every RAM task and after the physical and cognitive fatigue tasks. This is a vertical scale ranging from 6 at the top (no exertion) to 20 at the bottom ('maximal exertion') of the scale. Participants saw both incremental numbers from 6-20 and descriptions at numbers 7 ('very very light'), 9 ('very light'), 11 ('reasonably light'), 13 ('quite heavy'), 15 ('heavy'), 17 ('very heavy'), 19 ('very very heavy'), 20 ('maximal exertion'). | 5 seconds for every measurement | |
Secondary | Checklist Individual Strength | For this study the CIS-fatigue subscale scores were used in order to quantify the subjective amount of fatigue subjects were experiencing at the onset of each test session. | 5 minutes at the beginning of each test day | |
Secondary | Profile Of Mood States-Short Form | The POMS-Short Form questionnaire required subjects to rate 32 words on a five-point, Likert-type scale ranging from 0-4 (0 = not at all, 4 = extremely) in accordance with their state of mood at that moment. These thirty-two items were divided into four negative subscales and one positive subscale, the total score of a subject consists of the difference of the sum of the negative scales and the positive scale. This means the lower the total score, the higher the positive mood of the subject. | 5 minutes at the beginning of each test day | |
Secondary | International Physical Activities Questionnaire | The IPAQ was administered before each test session to question participants about the physical activities they performed during the last 7 days. This in order to control for week-to-week differences in physical exertion levels and in order to compare physical activity between subjects. Based on these scores 3 levels of physical activity could be determined with level 1 (low), 2 (moderate) and 3 (high) physical activity. These levels are calculated based on the amount of hours low, moderate and high exerting activities had been performed the last 7 days. | 15 minutes at the beginning of each test day | |
Secondary | General questionnaire | Demographical and physical characteristics were questioned in a self-developed general questionnaire as well as educational/occupational levels, substance and medication use, general physical and mental health, and sleep quality and quantity of the week and night at the beginning of test day 1. | 10 minutes at the beginning of test day 1 | |
Secondary | General questionnaire-Short | Only a short part of the General Questionnaire was repeated at the start of test day two. Demographic, physical and educational/occupational information would not alter between 2 test days, so these sections were unnecessary to question again at test day 2. Therefore a shorter version with only questions about substance and medication use since the previous test day, general physical and mental health, and sleep quality and quantity of the week and night before the test session was administered on test day 2. | 10 minutes at the beginning of test day 2 |
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