Static Stretching Exercises and Ultrasound Elastography Evaluation

Suleyman Demirel University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Hamstring Muscle; Elastography; Muscle Stretching Exercise

Treatments: Other: Static stretching exercise; Other: Mulligan bent leg raise technique

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05981027

SuleymanDUtahirkeskin03

Details and patient eligibility

About

The aim of thid study was to compare two methods applied to increase the flexibility of the hamstring muscles and objectively evaluate changes in muscle stiffness using the two-dimensional shear wave ultrasound elastography (2D SWE) method. Thirty asymptomatic young individuals with hamstring shortness were divided into two groups by simple randomization. The Mulligan bent leg raise (BLR) technique was applied to the first group, and passive static stretching exercises to the second group. Hamstring flexibility was evaluated with the sit-and-reach test, and muscle stiffness with the 2D SWE method.

Enrollment: 30 patients

Sex: Male

Ages: 20 to 25 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion and exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• Having a limitation of more than 25° in the active knee extension test
• Only engaged in recreational sports during the study period

Inclusion Criteria:

• Having a history of lower extremity injury within the last two years
• Not volunteering to participate in the study.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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30 participants in 2 patient groups

Mulligan bent leg raise technique

Experimental group

Description:

A single session of 3 repetitions of Mulligan bent leg raise was applied to the participants.

Treatment:

Other: Mulligan bent leg raise technique

Static stretching exercise

Experimental group

Description:

A single session of 5 repetitive stretching exercises was performed on the participants.

Treatment:

Other: Static stretching exercise