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Quadriceps femoris performance after resistance training with and without photobiomodulation in elderly women: a randomized clinical trial

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The study assessed if quadriceps femoris muscle performance of older women can be improved by applying photobiomodulation therapy after a resistance training program. This study is a randomized, controlled trial with concealed allocation, intention-to-treat analysis, and blinded outcome evaluators. Forty-five healthy sedentary older women classified as active or insufficiently active were randomized to groups receiving 8 weeks of quadriceps femoris resistance training plus active group or placebo group, or a control group (no training or photobiomodulation). Surface electromyographic fatigue indexes of vastus medialis, rectus femoris, and vastus lateralis; one-maximum repetition (1-MR); and analysis of inflammatory biomarkers (IL-6, IL-8, and TNF-α cytokines, plus CK and LDH enzymes) were measured at baseline and twice in a 24 h-period after 8 weeks. No differences among the three groups were found in fatigue indexes for all three muscles, although in general, the active group presented improved fatigue indexes from baseline to 8-week outcome, while the other groups did not. Both training groups improved in 1-MR over the 8-week period. Inflammatory biomarkers were not different at long- or short-term among the three groups, except differences in groups for long-term IL-8 changes, differences in time for long-term LDH and short-term TNF-α changes, and interactions of time by group for short-term LDH changes. Quadriceps femoris performance of older women was not improved when photobiomodulation was associated to the proposed quadriceps femoris resistance training, when compared to training without photobiomodulation and a sedentary group.

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The authors would like to thank the participants, and the São Paulo Research Foundation—FAPESP for the financial support (process number 2012/12472-1).

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  1. Department of Human Movement Science, Universidade Federal de São Paulo, Santos, Brazil

    Helga Tatiana Tucci, Danielle S. Figueiredo & Raquel de Paula Carvalho

  2. Santos, Brazil

    Helga Tatiana Tucci

  3. Department of Biosciences, Universidade Federal de São Paulo, Santos, Brazil

    Ana C. F. Souza, Patricia G. Vassão & Ana C. M. Renno

  4. Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA

    Marcia A. Ciol

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Tucci, H.T., Figueiredo, D.S., de Paula Carvalho, R. et al. Quadriceps femoris performance after resistance training with and without photobiomodulation in elderly women: a randomized clinical trial. Lasers Med Sci 34, 1583–1594 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10103-019-02748-x

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