8-stage Model and Its Implications in National Pakistani Tennis Players

Riphah International University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Sports Physical Therapy

Treatments: Other: Conventional exercise program; Other: 8-stage model based exercise program

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05515380

REC/01024 Ali Zubair

Details and patient eligibility

About

The aim of this study is to determine the effectiveness of structured exercises for tennis serve performance by using 8-stage model.

Full description

Tennis serve stroke is the most crucial component of tennis. 8-stage model like other training programs has proven to be effective in improving performance. This exercise program has yet not been implemented in Pakistani tennis players and remain to be tested in local population.

This randomized controlled trial has been designed to assess the effectiveness of 8-stage model based exercise program in Pakistani national tennis players. The present study has hypothesized that there will be a significant difference between the effects of 8-stage model and conventional training program. There are two arms of intervention in this study: experimental and control group. Experimental group would follow the 8-stage model based exercise training program while control group would follow their conventional exercise training program. Outcome measurements (speed, flexibility, strength) has been carried out at baseline and after 12 weeks.

Enrollment: 12 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 30 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• National level tennis players
• Players who are playing tennis from last one year continuously

Exclusion criteria

• Players with any MSK injury
• Any systemic disease affecting players performance
• Any inflammatory conditions.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Other

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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12 participants in 2 patient groups

8-stage model based exercise training

Experimental group

Description:

8-stage model based exercise training

Treatment:

Other: 8-stage model based exercise program

Conventional exercise training

Active Comparator group

Description:

Conventional exercise training

Treatment:

Other: Conventional exercise program