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Rapid weight loss and combat athletes

A study on psychological resilience and mechanical hyperalgesia

Esin Çağla Çağlar, Levent Ceylan, Sermin Ağralı Ermiş, Furkan Çamiçi, Murat Eliöz, Recep Nur Uzun, Güner Çiçek, Muhammet Kusan, Mustafa Tolga Bayraktar, Fatma Neşe Şahin, Hamza Küçük. 2025. Frontiers in Psychology.

Read the full textDOI 10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1545048PubMed 39911987

The medical question

How do preparation and weight-management practices affect a fighter’s health?

This evidence helps define research questions about the medical consequences of preparation, dehydration and recovery. It connects the demands of making weight with the Fight Medicine Research Institute’s wider responsibility for a fighter’s health.

Summary

The study measured psychological-resilience scores and pressure-pain thresholds before and after a precompetition weight-loss period in elite male kickboxers.

What the abstract reports

  • 37 elite male kickboxers were measured before and after a one-month weight-loss period leading up to competition.
  • Pressure-pain thresholds in the thoracolumbar region were lower after the weight-loss period.
  • Four of six resilience subscale scores were higher after the period. Two did not change significantly.

Publication status and notices

Published in a peer-reviewed journal. Before-and-after observational study in Frontiers in Psychology. PubMed publication type: Journal Article.

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22 January 2025
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