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CASE REPORT article

Front. Sports Act. Living
Sec. Elite Sports and Performance Enhancement
Volume 6 - 2024 | doi: 10.3389/fspor.2024.1472948
This article is part of the Research Topic Towards a Psychophysiological Approach in Physical Activity, Exercise, and Sports-Volume IV View all 7 articles

Potential Benefits of a Single Functional Neurology Intervention in Athletic Rehabilitation and Recovery: A Case Study

Provisionally accepted
Jorge Rey-Mota Jorge Rey-Mota 1Guillermo Escribano-Colmena Guillermo Escribano-Colmena 1Eduardo Navarro-Jiménez Eduardo Navarro-Jiménez 2Carmen Cecilia Laborde Carmen Cecilia Laborde 2Rodrigo Yáñez-Sepúlveda Rodrigo Yáñez-Sepúlveda 3Vicente Javier Clemente-Suárez Vicente Javier Clemente-Suárez 1*
  • 1 European University of Madrid, Villaviciosa de Odón, Spain
  • 2 Simón Bolívar University, Barranquilla, Colombia
  • 3 Andres Bello University, Santiago, Santiago Metropolitan Region (RM), Chile

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    This study analyze the effect of a single functional neurology session on sports performance, pain perception, fatigue perception and thermographic muscular response in an international female weightlifting athlete with incapacity to tolerate weight. Functional neurology is a discipline leveraging neuroplasticity for non-invasive recovery and per-formance optimization. We found how a single session of functional neurology improved load tolerance, enabling her to lift weights at pre-injury levels after just a single session of functional neurology and reduced pain perception from 80 to 0 and fatigue perception from 90 to 20 on a 100-point scale while thermographic data showed up to a 15% de-crease in body temperature indicating reduced inflammation and improved muscle recovery. Then, we found how a single functional neurology intervention produced an improve in sports performance, pain and fatigue perceptions, and peripheral vascular response in an inter-national female weightlifting athlete with an initial incapacity to tolerate weight. This supports the incorporation of functional neurology into sports rehabilitation, under-scoring its potential in optimizing athletes' health and performance.

    Keywords: Functional Neurology, neuroplasticity, Pain, sport performance, Rehabilitation, Thermography, Fatigue

    Received: 30 Jul 2024; Accepted: 30 Dec 2024.

    Copyright: © 2024 Rey-Mota, Escribano-Colmena, Navarro-Jiménez, Laborde, Yáñez-Sepúlveda and Clemente-Suárez. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

    * Correspondence: Vicente Javier Clemente-Suárez, European University of Madrid, Villaviciosa de Odón, Spain

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