Immediate Effect of Dynamic Stretching With and Without Floss Band on Flexibility of Hamstrings in Futsal Players

Riphah International University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Sports Physical Therapy

Treatments: Other: Dynamic Stretching with Floss Band; Other: Dynamic Stretching without Floss Band

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06101602

REC/01382 Shiza Fatima Zaidi

Details and patient eligibility

About

To compare the immediate effect of dynamic stretching with and without floss band on the hamstring flexibility in futsal players.

Full description

Futsal is a soccer-like indoor sport that has been gaining popularity worldwide.To increase the flexibility and ROM of involved muscle group a new method has been introduced named Flossing of tissue by using a floss band.

This research study will be helpful to enable therapists to broaden their treatment plans or choose better treatment tools for improving hamstrings flexibility in futsal players. Thus, this study has been designed with the purpose to examine the effect of dynamic stretching with and without floss band on the flexibility of the hamstring.

Enrollment: 54 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 17 to 40 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• National level futsal players.
• Active for past 3 months.

Exclusion criteria

• Players with any systemic disease/disorder.
• Players with any recent ligamentous or musculoskeletal injury that isn't healed yet.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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54 participants in 2 patient groups

With Floss Band

Experimental group

Description:

Floss band made of natural rubber, black in color and 4" in width will be wrapped around the thigh, starting from the distally to superiorly with an overlap of 50%. Perform exercises: • Multi-directional leg swing

Treatment:

Other: Dynamic Stretching with Floss Band

Without floss Band

Active Comparator group

Description:

Perform exercises without floss band. • Multi-directional leg swing

Treatment:

Other: Dynamic Stretching without Floss Band