Immediate Impact of Lumbar Fascia Stretching on Hamstring Flexibility

Universidad Católica San Antonio de Murcia

Status

Completed

Conditions

Hamstring Injury

Treatments

Other: Treatment of the lumbar fasciae

Other: Placebo intervention

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT04345055

CONSORT

Details and patient eligibility

About

Introduction: the hamstring muscles has a great tendency to decrease its extensibility, originating a pathology with a own clinical entity, the Short Hamstring Syndrome (SHS), in addition to other problems on adjacent structures. All this present a great socioeconomic impact in the investigator's society. Various techniques have been demostrated to prduce an increase in flexibility, among which are the fascial techniques.

Objective: to evaluate the immediate efficacy of the treatment of the lumbar fascia in the flexibility of the hamstring musculature.

Methods: 41 women between 18 and 39 years old, in two groups. The experimental group received a technique of fascial stretching in the lumbar area while the control group participated in an off magnetotherapy machine. The hamstring flexibility in both lower limbs was measured by the Straight Leg Raising Test (SLR) and the Passive Popliteal Angle Test (PKE).

Full description

The hamstring muscles has a great tendency to decrease its extensibility, originating a pathology with a own clinical entity, the Short Hamstring Syndrome (SHS), in addition to other problems on adjacent structures. This study aims to help improve treatment for the problem mentioned before, which can be included within a therapeutic framework to combat SHS. In recent years, investigations have been carried out that include different techniques for stretching the hamstring muscles, as well as the treatment of other structures belonging to the posterior superficial chain. Within this last section, myofascial stretching techniques have been shown to be effective both in the short and medium term. Different techniques for stretching the hamstring muscles have been carried out with the aim of increasing the flexibility of the lower back in general.

he objective is to evaluate the immediate efficacy of the treatment of the lumbar fascia in the flexibility of the hamstring musculature.

The participants are 41 women between 18 and 39 years old, in two groups. The experimental group received a technique of fascial stretching in the lumbar area while the control group participated in an off magnetotherapy machine. The hamstring flexibility in both lower limbs was measured by the Straight Leg Raising Test (SLR) and the Passive Popliteal Angle Test (PKE).

Enrollment

41 patients

Sex

Female

Ages

18 to 39 years old

Volunteers

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Female between 18 and 39 years old.
Signed informed consent

Exclusion criteria

Any alteration that prevents the normal communication between the patient and the therapist at the time of the study.
Have an injury in the hamstring muscles.
Have a chronic or acute lumbar pain in the moment of the realization.
Neurological or orthopedic desease.
Any important estructural alteration in the lower members that may be likely to alter the results under study.