Effects of jaw clenching wearing customized mouthguards on agility, power and vertical jump in male high-standard basketball players.

ABSTRACT:

Background/objective

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 = 13). A mean differences analysis and a responder analysis were conducted.

Results

Significant improvements were

SUBMITTER: Busca B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6323169 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature