Assessment of Thigh Muscle After a Stretching Program

Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro

Status: Completed

Conditions: Assessment of Muscle Architecture and Tendon After Chronic Stretching Program

Treatments: Other: static stretching exercise on 3 times a week during 8 weeks. Sets number: three of 30 seconds with intervals of equal duration

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01820351

Ethics Committee 023/11 (Other Identifier)

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to establish, through ultrasound, measurements of the thigh muscles (Biceps Femoris and Vastus Lateralis)and the chronic effects of a static stretching program on the muscle-tendon unit these muscles.

Sex: Male

Ages: 17 to 25 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• physically active male volunteers
• soldiers of the Army School of Physical Education of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
• young men

Exclusion criteria

• any musculoskeletal disorder in the lower limbs
• neurological or cardiovascular disease experienced previous to or reported during the study.