Dynamic and Static Stretching on Postural Stability, Reaction Time and Countermovement Jump of Sprinters

Universidad Católica San Antonio de Murcia

Status: Completed

Conditions: Postural Stability

Treatments: Procedure: Dynamic Stretching; Procedure: Static Stretching

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02392962

CEIH 201014-2

Details and patient eligibility

About

All the athletes should perform a warm-up consisting of five minutes of jogging and static stretching (Experimental Group 1) or dynamic stretching (Experimental Group 2). Before the beginning of the study and right after performing the stretching protocol, the investigators evaluated the unipedal postural stability, the acustic reaction time, the joint position sense of the knee and the countermovement jump of the athletes.

Enrollment: 24 patients

Sex: Male

Ages: 18 to 26 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• National level Sprinters
• Two years or more of experience

Exclusion criteria

• Free of injuries in the last six months

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Double Blind

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24 participants in 2 patient groups

Experimental I

Experimental group

Description:

This group performed static stretching

Treatment:

Procedure: Static Stretching

Experimental II

Active Comparator group

Description:

This group performed dynamic stretching

Treatment:

Procedure: Dynamic Stretching