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Case Reports
. 2025 Jan 17:6:1472948.
doi: 10.3389/fspor.2024.1472948. eCollection 2024.

Case Report: Potential benefits of a single functional neurology intervention in athletic rehabilitation and recovery: a case study

Jorge Rey-Mota  1 , Guillermo Escribano-Colmena  1 , Eduardo Navarro Jiménez  2 , Carmen Cecilia Laborde-Cárdenas  3 , Rodrigo Yáñez-Sepúlveda  4 , Vicente Javier Clemente-Suárez  5   6
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Case Report: Potential benefits of a single functional neurology intervention in athletic rehabilitation and recovery: a case study

Jorge Rey-Mota et al. Front Sports Act Living. .

Abstract

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 performance 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% decrease 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: fatigue; functional neurology; neuroplasticity; pain; rehabilitation; sport performance; thermography.

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Conflict of interest statement

GE-C and JR-M are affiliated with ®NeuroReEvolution. The remaining authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest.

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Thermographic modifications before and after the functional neurology treatment in the different body regions.
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Thermographic modifications before and after the functional neurology treatment in the athlete hip.
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