Physiological and Biochemical Evaluation of Different Types of Recovery in National Level Paralympic Powerlifting
, Dihogo Gama de Matos 3,5, Roland Van den Tillaar 6, Anderson Carlos Marçal 1,3, Lázaro Fernandes Lobo 7, Lucas Soares Marcucci-Barbosa 7, Saulo da Cunha Machado 8, Paulo Francisco de Almeida-Neto 9, Nuno Domingos Garrido 10, Victor Machado Reis 10, Érica Leandro Marciano Vieira 11, Breno Guilherme de Araújo Tinoco Cabral 9, José Vilaça-Alves 10, Albená Nunes-Silva 7 and Walderi Monteiro da Silva Júnior 1,12Round 1
Reviewer 1 Report
- The authors examined Physiological and biochemical evaluation of different types of 2 recovery in national level Paralympic powerlifting.
- There are some grammatical issues throughout the text that need to be fixed.
Abstract
- Lines 39-40: Participants’ gender needs to be specified in the abstract.
- Line 44: The acronym “IL-2” needs to be used in its complete form first.
Introduction
- Lines 80-81: You need to provide a reference(s) to support the following sentence:
“In addition, the use of dry needling (DN) in recovery has been proposed to reduce muscle pain.”
Methods
- Day-to-day test reliability, CV range, and intraclass correlation coefficients for the assessments need to be included for ALL the assessments.
Discussion
- Lines 317-318: More references are needed to support the following sentence:
“Some studies have assessed the effectiveness of CWI on muscle stiffness after strenuous exercise [33].”
Author Response
We thank you for your notes and the proposed adaptations are attached
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Reviewer 2 Report
The article ijerph-1211730 entitled "Physiological and biochemical evaluation of different types of recovery in national level Paralympic powerlifting", seems to me an interesting and novel article and I congratulate the authors for it.
However, I think that some minimal modifications should be taken care of:
- Authors should indicate whether the study subjects are male or female.
- They should clearly indicate what the inclusion and exclusion criteria were in the choice of subjects.
- In relation to the dry puncture method, indicate how they sterilized the surface where they were punctured and in which parts of the muscle they were punctured.
- In the Blood biochemical indicators section, it should be included how the serum was obtained.
- In line 206 of the text it indicates 200 rpm, they are sure, because I think there are few revolutions for a phase separation.
For the rest, confirm my congratulations on the article made and on the group made.
Author Response
We thank you for your notes and the proposed adaptations are attached
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