Acute Effect of Static Stretching and Muscle Warming on the Functional Performance of College Volleyball Athletes

Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte

Status: Completed

Conditions: Neuromuscular Manifestations

Treatments: Other: static stretching + warm up; Other: warm up; Other: warm up+static stretching; Other: Static Stretching; Other: Control

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02724124

1.378.698

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is analyze the effects of static stretching and active warm up, isolated and associated, in functional performance of the lower limbs in college volleyball athletes.

Study hypothesis:

H0: The stretching and / or warm up, alone or in combination, do not alter the functional performance of volleyball players.

H1: The stretching and / or warm up, alone or in combination, alter the functional performance of volleyball players.

Full description

This is a cross-over study containing 11 volleyball athletes randomly divided into 5 groups: control (C), warming-up (gAQ), stretching (gAL), warming-up and stretching (gAQAL), stretching and warming-up (gALAQ). All subjects underwent the evaluation measures of functional performance that were conducted pre and post intervention.

Enrollment: 55 patients

Sex: Male

Ages: 18 to 28 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

1. being male;
2. were aged between 18 and 28 years of age;
3. no previous history of orthopedic disorders, rheumatic disorders, cardiovascular, metabolic and / or vestibular and neurological disorders that prevent them from participating in the study dysfunctions;
4. no history of injury, trauma or disease in the lower limbs in the last six months, without surgery;
5. participate in the University Selection UFRN;
6. training time display mode in the above two years with a frequency of at least three times a week.

Exclusion criteria

1. presence of injury during the survey period;
2. not conduct evaluative and intervention procedures;
3. waiver to participate.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Crossover Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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55 participants in 5 patient groups

static stretching

Experimental group

Description:

group of 11 volunteers (gSS)

Treatment:

Other: Static Stretching

warm up -

Experimental group

Description:

group of 11 volunteers (gWU)

Treatment:

Other: warm up

static stretching + warm up

Experimental group

Description:

(group of 11 volunteers - SS+WU)

Treatment:

Other: static stretching + warm up

warm up+static stretching

Experimental group

Description:

(group of 11 volunteers - WU+SS)

Treatment:

Other: warm up+static stretching

Control Group

Other group

Description:

No intervention - athletes rested

Treatment:

Other: Control