Dynamic versus static stretching in the sports warm-up
Completed
- Conditions
- Hamstring flexibility/hip flexion range of motionSigns and SymptomsHamstring flexibility
- Registration Number
- ISRCTN92190114
- Lead Sponsor
- Individual Sponsor (Australia)
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Completed
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 12
Inclusion Criteria
1. Drawn from a variety of sporting backgrounds which predominantly involved the lower body
2. Trained lightly for a minimum of three times a week
3. Did not use any routine muscle flexibility training in their regular training program of their specific sport
4. Free of any bony or soft tissue injury to the spine and lower limbs, and no history of the same in the past one year
5. Adults (aged 18 years and over), either sex
Exclusion Criteria
1. Those who had an designated period of stretching in daily warm-up routine
2. History of lower limb/lumbosacral spine injury in the last year
3. Inability to be present for testing sessions every week
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Change in hamstring flexibility (hip ROM in degrees) after each intervention (Treatment 1, 2 , 3) from pre-test to post-test
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method o secondary outcome measures