Effects of Warm up in Athletes With Previous Hamstring Injury

University of Extremadura

Status: Completed

Conditions: Previous Hamstring Injury

Treatments: Other: Hot Pack; Other: Warm Up

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03444285

19731973

Details and patient eligibility

About

The objectives of this study is to determine the immediate and 10 minutes follow-up effects of a warm-up based on a continous run on a treadmill or the application of a hot-pack in athletes with previous hamstring injury. The investigators have as an hypothesis that the subjects, after one of this interventions show statistically significant improvements in the measurements of pain, flexibility, proprioception and postural control

Enrollment: 62 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 27 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• To be 18-27 years old
• To do sports as a minimum of 5 hours per week.
• To have done sport in the last 2 years
• Have a hamstring flexibility of ≤80º on Kendall test
• Diagnosed hamstring injury the last year

Exclusion criteria

• To take drugs that alter the motor o postural control
• To do a program of stretching of the hamstring
• To have lumbar pain
• Recent abdominal or spinal surgery intervention

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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62 participants in 2 patient groups

Warm Up

Active Comparator group

Treatment:

Other: Warm Up

Hot Pack

Active Comparator group

Treatment:

Other: Hot Pack