Prevention of Hamstring Injuries in Football Players.

Universidad Católica de Ávila

Status: Completed

Conditions: Hamstring Injuries

Treatments: Other: Passive Neurodynamics and Passive axial hip mobilisation/distraction; Other: Active therapy; Other: 2.5.3. Combined therapy

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05773404

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Details and patient eligibility

About

Introduction: The prevalence of hamstring injuries in football is high, causing an increase in the number of casualties and a high socio-economic cost. Currently there are different treatment protocols for this muscle group, but there are often no comparisons of different types of passive, active and combined therapies, and their potential efficacy, in professional football players.

Objectives: To compare the efficacy of three different interventions; passive manual therapy, active therapy based on therapeutic exercise and combined therapy, in relation to hamstring injuries in professional football players.

Methodology: A simple Randomised Clinical Trial (RCT) was conducted (NCT04935398). After applying the selection criteria, a sample of 66 professional football players was obtained. They were divided into 3 intervention groups (A, B and C) with 22 participants in each group and were given passive manual therapy, active therapy (exercise) and combined therapy (sum of the above). The corresponding tests and questionnaires were evaluated to obtain data on hamstring flexibility and hip range of movement at three time periods: pre, post and post2.

Enrollment: 66 patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 18 to 40 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Professional football athletes.
• Between 18-40 years of age.
• Female gender.
• Active in competitive season.

Exclusion criteria

• Neurological signs.
• Inability to follow the evaluator's instructions.
• Physical activity of less than 2 hours per week.
• Serious lower limb injury during the study period.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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66 participants in 3 patient groups

passive manual therapy

Experimental group

Description:

The physiotherapist performs passive techniques on the hamstring muscles of the footballers.

Treatment:

Other: Passive Neurodynamics and Passive axial hip mobilisation/distraction

active therapy (exercise)

Experimental group

Description:

The physiotherapist does not perform passive techniques and it is the player who performs active techniques on the hamstring muscles.

Treatment:

Other: Active therapy

combined therapy

Active Comparator group

Description:

The physiotherapist performs passive techniques and in addition the player performs active techniques on the hamstring muscles.

Treatment:

Other: 2.5.3. Combined therapy