Upper body compression wear improves muscle oxygenation following intense video game training: a randomized cross-over study among competitive gamers.

"Declarations Ethics approval and consent to participateThis study was approved by the New York Institute of Technology Institutional Review Board (BHS-1674) and was performed in accordance with the ethical standards as laid down in the 1964 Declaration of Helsinki and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards. All participants signed written informed consent. Consent for publicationN/A. Competing interestsIn the interest of full disclosure, we would like to specify that the authors, JD, AR, MKJ, HZ and WW, during the course of this research, were provided gaming keyboards and mouse controllers by Fntic Ltd™ to incentivize the subjects’ participation. Competing interests In the interest of full disclosure, we would like to specify that the authors, JD, AR, MKJ, HZ and WW, during the course of this research, were provided gaming keyboards and mouse controllers by Fntic Ltd™ to incentivize the subjects’ participation."

"Funding The primary Investigator Joanne DiFrancisco-Donoghue has received corporate support for this project from Fnatic Ltd™. For the remaining authors, no conflict of interest was declared."

"Trial registration Clinicaltrials.gov identifier NCT05037071. Registered 08/09/2021. URL: Arm Compression on Muscle Oxygen Saturation - Full Text View - ClinicalTrials.gov"