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This study systematically reviews the literature on transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) interventions for lower-limb endurance performance in healthy adults and provides a summary of the effects and underlying mechanisms of tDCS on lower-limb endurance performance. Systematic searches were performed in PubMed, Web of Science, EBSCO, and ScienceDirect. The risk of bias was assessed using the Cochrane risk of bias assessment tool. The electronic search totaled 341 studies. Twenty-one studies were included in the review after screening. The results show that tDCS effectively improved time to task failure (TTF), increased blood lactate accumulation, and reduced the rating of perceived exertion during cycling. However, the tDCS failed to significantly improve the TTF, relieve muscle pain, and reduce fatigue indices during single-joint fatigue tasks in the knee. Moreover, tDCS intervention caused the effective improvement of the overall lower-limb endurance performance but exerted no uniformly conclusive effect on knee endurance performance. This finding can be partly attributed to varying stimulation protocols across studies. Future studies may focus on the effects of the application of stimulation protocols, such as multitarget stimulation and personalized dosage, to develop targeted stimulation protocols.
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