Short-term Effects of Active Post-training Slider Neural Mobilization

University of Brasilia

Status: Completed

Conditions: Healthy Adults

Treatments: Other: Neural mobilization

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04146597

Slider NM

Details and patient eligibility

About

Jiu Jitsu is a martial art that consists of various techniques that aim to place the opponent in submission. It is essentially a ground fight that requires large movement variety, among which flexibility is a substantial physical aptitude, required to perform specific positions of attack or defence, especially flexibility of the thoracolumbar spine and hamstrings. The literature reports that abnormal posterior lower limb neurodynamics may influence hamstring extensibility and muscle length, and lead to changes in perception of stretch and pain. The objective of the present study is to evaluate the effect of NM, using sliding techniques of the sciatic nerve, immediately after Jiu Jitsu training, on HM flexibility of Jiu Jitsu practitioners. The hypothesis is that NM sliders applied immediately after training would be as effective as an isolated intervention, as demonstrated in soccer players.

Enrollment: 22 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 59 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Healthy adults of regular practitioners of Jiu Jitsu;
• Aged between 18 and 59 years;
• Both sexes.

Exclusion criteria

• Straight Leg Raise (SLR) test > 75º;
• Hamstrings injury in the previous three months;
• History of any neurological disorder (such as sensory deficits and irradiated pain) or orthopaedics (such as soft tissue or bone injuries) that affected a lower extremity;
• Positive neural tension test (uni or bilateral);
• Fracture in a lower extremity with surgical treatment history in the previous12 months and with conservative treatment in the previous 6 months;
• Herniated lumbar disc diagnosis.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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22 participants in 1 patient group

Neural mobilization

Experimental group

Description:

The intervention is always performed after Jiu Jitsu practice and at the training site itself. Neural mobilization consisted of the execution of a sciatic nerve sliding technique in three sets of one minute for each lower limb with an interval of one minute between sets, twice a week, for five consecutive weeks, totaling 10 interventions (Garber et al., 2011). The order of the first lower limb to be submitted to the intervention is not standardized, being at the discretion of the subjects.

Treatment:

Other: Neural mobilization