Eccentric Strength Training of Ankle Joint Muscles in Swimming

Istinye University

Status

Completed

Conditions

Resistance Training

Treatments

Other: Eccentric exercise

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT05393687

DolphiKick

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study was conducted to investigate the effectiveness of ankle muscle strengthening program of 8 weeks on the underwater dolphin kick performance in young swimmers. This study was a randomized controlled trial. Swimmers was divided in two groups; eccentric ankle muscle-strengthening exercises and control group. The outcome measures were strength of plantar flexors, dorsal flexors, internal rotators, external rotators and 5-meter underwater dolphin kick time.

Full description

There is limited information on the effectiveness of ankle joint muscles in respect to the knee, hip, back and upper extremity muscles creating the propulsive forces for the feet to transfer the moment force towards water. Therefore, it is aimed to observe the effects of eccentric ankle muscle-strengthening exercises given by means of elastic bands on the Underwater Dolphin Kick performance of young swimmers.

Enrollment

26 patients

Sex

All

Ages

84 to 155 months old

Volunteers

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Having swimming training at least three times per week for the last year and using the proper UDK technique, which was assessed by the swimming trainer of the participants.

Exclusion criteria