The Effects of Hamstring Stretching With and Without Neural Load on Flexibility, Maximum Isometric Strength and Tibial Nerve Pressure Pain Threshold

University of Jaén

Status: Completed

Conditions: Healthy

Treatments: Other: Hamstring stretching program with neural load; Other: Hamstring stretching program without neural load

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05344586

CEIM/HU/2019/36

Details and patient eligibility

About

The study will be carried out at the Faculty of Nursing and Physiotherapy of the University of Alcala. The study has been approved by the Animal Research and Experimentation Ethics Committee of the University of Alcalá. Healthy subjects will be recruited and divided into two groups randomly to perform a hamstring stretching program for two months.

One group will perform a stretch with neural load and the other without neural load, although both groups will stretch for the same amount of time, repetitions and subjective sensation.

Participants will be measured before and after performing their assigned stretch. Then, a new post-stretch measurement will be taken after two months, period during which the subjects will perform the stretching program on their own. Finally, subjects will be asked to quit the stretching program to take a final evaluation measurement after one month of follow-up.

The objective will be to evaluate the effects of stretching with and without neural load on hamstring flexibility (main variable), maximum isometric strength and tibial nerve pressure pain threshold.

Enrollment: 80 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 50 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Healthy subjects who do not perform hamstring stretches with neural load in their daily training routine

Exclusion criteria

• Elite athletes competing or preparing for competition
• Lower limb surgery
• Hamstring injury in the last year
• Neurological, rheumatologic and/or orthopedic pathological history of lower limbs.
• Other comorbidities

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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80 participants in 2 patient groups

Intervention group

Experimental group

Description:

Hamstring stretching program with neural load

Treatment:

Other: Hamstring stretching program with neural load

Control group

Experimental group

Description:

Hamstring stretching program without neural load

Treatment:

Other: Hamstring stretching program without neural load