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Adding Core Muscle Contraction to Wrist-Ankle Rhythmical Skeletal Muscle Tension Increases Respiratory Sinus Arrhythmia and Low-Frequency Power.
Applied Psychophysiology and Biofeedback 2023 March
Paced breathing and rhythmical skeletal muscle tension (RSMT) at an individual's resonance frequency [~ 6 breaths or contractions per min (cpm)] can stimulate the arterial and vascular tone baroreflexes. Lehrer (Appl Psychophysiol Biofeedback 1-10, 2022, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10484-022-09535-5 ) has explained that the stimulation rate is important, not the modality. Early RSMT protocols differed in the muscles recruited and whether legs were crossed or uncrossed (in France et al. Clin Physiol Funct Imaging 26: 21-25, 2006, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1475-097X.2005.00642.x ; Leher et al. Biol Psychol 81: 24-30, 2009, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsycho.2009.01.003 ; Vaschillo et al. Psychophysiology, 48: 927-936, 2011, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-8986.2010.01156.x ). Whereas core muscle RSMT with crossed legs and wrist-ankle RSMT with uncrossed legs produced resonance effects, researchers have not directly compared the effect of these exercises on respiratory sinus arrhythmia (RSA) and low-frequency (LF) power. The current within-subjects experiment investigated whether crossing the legs and recruiting core muscles enhances wrist-ankle RSMT effects on RSA and LF power. We trained 35 participants to complete 6-cpm wrist-ankle RSMT (ankles uncrossed), 6-cpm wrist-core-ankle RSMT (ankles crossed), and a control condition in which participants sat quietly (ankles uncrossed) without performing RSMT. We predicted that 6-cpm wrist-core-ankle RSMT would produce greater heart rate (HR), HR Max-HR Min, and LF power than the other conditions. The experimental findings supported our predictions. Both RSMT conditions produced greater HR, HR Max-HR Min, and LF power than the control condition. Wrist-core-ankle yielded greater HR and HR Max-HR Min than wrist-ankle RSMT. Future research should compare wrist-ankle and wrist-core-ankle RSMT with legs crossed. The practical implication for HRV biofeedback training is that wrist-core-ankle RSMT with legs crossed may more powerfully stimulate the baroreflex than wrist-ankle RSMT with legs uncrossed.
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