Instrument-assisted Soft Tissue Mobilization and Stretching in CrossFitters
Overview
- Phase
- Not Applicable
- Intervention
- Not specified
- Conditions
- Sports Physical Therapy
- Sponsor
- Real Fundación Victoria Eugenia
- Enrollment
- 21
- Locations
- 1
- Primary Endpoint
- Change from baseline internal rotation and horizontal adduction of the shoulder after treatment and at 1 month
- Last Updated
- 7 years ago
Overview
Brief Summary
Objective. To determine the effectiveness of instrument assisted soft tissue mobilization and horizontal adduction stretch in CrossFit practitioners' shoulders.
Setting: Acero CrossFit center, city of Toledo (Spain) Design: Randomized, single-blind pilot study, with follow-up period. Participants: Twenty-one subjects of both sexes, being regular CrossFitters and in the age range of 18 to 40 years.
Intervention: The experimental group (n = 11) received 30 seconds of stretching with isometric contraction of 5 seconds and instrument assisted soft tissue mobilization. The control group (n = 10) received only 40 seconds of instrument assisted soft tissue mobilization. Each session lasted 2 to 5 minutes, 2 days a week, over a period of 4 weeks, prior to each workout.
Main Outcome measures: Shoulder internal rotation and horizontal adduction (digital inclinometer), and posterior shoulder stretch perception (Park scale) were evaluated.
Investigators
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria
- •Subjects of both sexes
- •Being regular CrossFitters (workouts at least two days a week)
- •In the age range of 18 to 40 years
Exclusion Criteria
- •Had suffered a shoulder injury in the 3 months prior to the study
- •Had undergone shoulder surgery in the previous six months
- •Had a non-attendance rate of over 15% of the intervention sessions (2 sessions)
- •Had not signed the informed consent document
Outcomes
Primary Outcomes
Change from baseline internal rotation and horizontal adduction of the shoulder after treatment and at 1 month
Time Frame: Screening visit, within the first seven days after treatment and after one month follow-up visit
The patient was placed in the supine position at 90º shoulder abduction, 90º elbow flexion. By stabilizing the scapula at the acromion, the shoulder was taken at a maximum range of internal rotation. The range of motion was measured with a digital inclinometer, model Tacklife MDP01, the angle of the edge of the ulna coinciding with a line perpendicular to the stretcher. For horizontal adduction, the arm was placed in the same initial position in neutral rotation and while stabilizing the lateral edge of the scapula, the arm was adducted to its maximum range of motion. The angle between the line of the ventral edge of the humerus and a line perpendicular to the stretcher was measured with the inclinometer. The range of movement in internal rotation is 0-70º and the range in horizontal adduction is 0-30º (higher degrees, greater mobility in horizontal adduction of the shoulder).
Secondary Outcomes
- Change from baseline perception of stretch after treatment and at 1 month(Screening visit, within the first seven days after treatment and after one month follow-up visit)