Commentary: Tensiomyographic Markers Are Not Sensitive for Monitoring Muscle Fatigue in Elite Youth Athletes: A Pilot Study

摘要

With great interest, we read the article by Wiewelhove et al. (2017). This article contributes to the on-going debate regarding the usefulness of tensiomyography (TMG) in the detection of peripheral muscle fatigue (Wiewelhove et al., 2015; de Paula Simola et al., 2016; Macgregor et al., 2016). In this article, the main conclusion was that TMG was not sensitive to detect significant muscular performance changes and consequently, any muscle fatigue induced by a high intensity interval training (HIT) protocol. Although the authors used appropriate statistics' descriptors to analyze the diagnostic accuracy of the TMG measures for the assessment of muscle fatigue, we suggest that some issues within the manuscript need to be considered before adopting these conclusions and such a resounding title. In this regard, we acknowledge the transparency of the authors when reporting the study's limitations, but we feel that such limitations drastically compromised their results.