1. ACUTE EFFECTS OF SELF-MYOFASCIAL RELEASE USING A FOAM ROLLER ON ARTERIAL FUNCTION.
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TAKANOBU OKAMOTO, MITSUHIKO MASUHARA, and KOMEI IKURA
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MYOFASCIAL release , *ARTERIAL physiology , *BLOOD-vessel physiology , *ENDOTHELIUM physiology , *PHYSICAL therapy equipment , *PHYSICAL therapy , *ANALYSIS of variance , *ANTHROPOMETRY , *BLOOD pressure measurement , *CLINICAL trials , *EXERCISE physiology , *HEART rate monitoring , *NITRIC oxide , *RESEARCH funding , *STATISTICAL sampling , *STATISTICS , *T-test (Statistics) , *DATA analysis , *EFFECT sizes (Statistics) , *RANDOMIZED controlled trials , *PRE-tests & post-tests , *REPEATED measures design , *ANKLE brachial index , *DATA analysis software , *DESCRIPTIVE statistics ,FASCIAE diseases - Abstract
The article focuses on a study concerning the acute effects of self-myofascial release utilizing foam rollers has on arterial function and stiffness. It states that a randomized controlled crossover fashion was used on ten young adults performing self-myofascial release and control trials on separate days, with blood pressure, heart rate, plasma nitric oxide concentrations, and Brachial-ankle pulse wave velocity measured.
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- 2014
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