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Title:
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Effects of jaw clenching wearing customized mouthguards on agility, power and vertical jump in male high-standard basketball players
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Author:
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Buscà Safont-Tria, Bernat; Moreno-Doutres, Daniel; Peña López, Javier; Morales, José; Solana-Tramunt, Mònica; Aguilera-Castells, Joan
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Other authors:
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Universitat de Vic - Universitat Central de Catalunya. Facultat d'Educació, Traducció i Ciències Humanes; Universitat de Vic - Universitat Central de Catalunya. Grup de Recerca en Esport i Activitat Física |
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Background: Basketball players commonly use mouthguards for protecting their mouths from collisions
with other players. Besides, literature reports that specific types of mouthguards may become an ergogenic
device that facilitates a powerful jaw clenching, and a subsequent concurrent activation
potentiation through this remote voluntary contraction of the mandible muscles.
Methods: A randomized within-subjects design was used to study the effects of this mechanism on
muscular performance (vertical jump, agility, bench press power and leg press power) into two different
conditions (mouthguard and no mouthguard) in high-standard basketball players (n ¼ 13). A mean
differences analysis and a responder analysis were conducted.
Results: Significant improvements were found (p < 0.05) in all vertical jump protocols using the
mouthguard when compared to the no mouthguard conditions. However, no significant differences were
found between the two conditions in agility and power (except in one load of bench press). Nevertheless,
p-values were closer to statistical significance when analyzing the total time for the agility T-Test than
when the first split time was under consideration (p ¼ 0.111 and p ¼ 0.944, respectively).
Conclusion: This study demonstrated that the use of custom-made, bite-aligning mouthguard had an
ergogenic effect on jump outcomes and inconclusive results in agility T-Test in professional basketball
players. From the results obtained in the present study, the use of this type of mouthguards seems to be
more justified in power actions on the court than in the strength and conditioning sessions at the gym in
well-trained players. |
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-Motricitat
-Maxil·lars
-Rendiment (Esports) |
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Aquest document està subjecte a aquesta llicència Creative Commons
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/es/
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Document type:
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Article
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Elsevier
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