Neural Glide Technique on the Sciatic Nerve and the Passive Stretching Technique in the Short Hamstring Muscles

Universidad de Murcia

Status: Completed

Conditions: Flexibility; Sciatic Nerve; Hamstring Muscles

Treatments: Other: Passive upper limb mobilisations.; Other: Neural slippage of the sciatic nerve.; Other: Stretching of the hamstring muscles.

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05301426

FJ-2022-01

Details and patient eligibility

About

The project consists of studying the differences between neural gliding techniques of the sciatic nerve and passive stretching of the hamstring muscles in football players.

Full description

Study of hamstring shortening in football players through passive muscle stretching and the use of the neurodynamic technique of longitudinal sliding of the sciatic nerve.

Enrollment: 50 patients

Sex: Male

Ages: 16 to 18 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Footballers with shortening of the hamstring musculature.
• Age between 16 and 18 years.
• Subjects who agree to participate in the study.

Exclusion criteria

• Subjects with significant nerve involvement.
• Subjects with scars or wounds affecting the assessment.
• Subjects with muscle injuries in the lower limb.
• Subjects with herniated discs or chronic acute low back pain.
• Subjects with pain or paresthesia in the lower limbs.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Double Blind

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50 participants in 3 patient groups

Passive hamstring stretch.

Experimental group

Description:

Manual stretching of the hamstring muscles using the technique proposed by Henri Neiger.

Treatment:

Other: Stretching of the hamstring muscles.

Longitudinal slippage of the sciatic nerve.

Experimental group

Description:

Neurodynamic technique described by David Butler and Michael Shacklock.

Treatment:

Other: Neural slippage of the sciatic nerve.

Passive upper limb mobilisations.

Active Comparator group

Description:

Control group. Passive mobilisation of the upper limbs.

Treatment:

Other: Passive upper limb mobilisations.