Stretching Exercises and Hamstring Muscle

Flexibility Clinical Trial

Official title:

Effect of Adding Different Stretching Techniques to Passive Hamstring Stretching on Patient With Short Hamstring Syndrome

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Recruiting

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT04932707
• Other study ID #: Hamstring muscle shortening
• Status: Recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: June 16, 2021
• Est. completion date: December 20, 2021

Study information

• Verified date: November 2021
• Source: Cairo University
• Contact: Olfat I Ali, PhD
• Phone: +201061404168
• Email: olfat_ib[@]yahoo.com
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

The hamstrings muscles are examples of muscle groups that have a tendency to shorten.

Limited flexibility has been shown to predispose a person to several musculoskeletal overuse injuries and significantly affect a person's function.

Description:

, the objective of this study will be to investigate the effect of adding these two different methods of stretching techniques on the flexibility of hamstring muscle in subjects with short hamstring syndrome.

HYPOTHESES:

There will be no effect of adding sub-occipital muscle inhibition technique or neuro-dynamic slump stretch to passive hamstring stretch on hamstring flexibility in subjects with short hamstring syndrome.

RESEARCH QUESTION:

Is there is any effect of adding suboccipital muscle inhibition technique or neurodynamic slump stretch on hamstring flexibility in patients with short hamstring syndrome?

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Recruiting
• Enrollment: 60
• Est. completion date: December 20, 2021
• Est. primary completion date: November 15, 2021
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: Female
• Age group: 18 Years to 25 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• undergraduate female students

• body mass index 18-25 kg/cm square.

• All subjects will be free from injury or disease expected to affect hamstring length or ability to perform the exercises.

Exclusion Criteria:

• Hamstring injury within the past year.

• Verbal report of performing regular lower extremity.

• Current Muscle stretching exercises.

• History of neck trauma (whiplash).

• History of recent fracture in any part of the body.

• History of neurological or orthopedic disorders

• Diagnosis of a herniated disk

• Low back pain in the last 6 months

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Flexibility

Intervention

Other:
• sub-occipital muscle inhibition technique
this technique will be conducted from a supine lying position. The therapist stretches the suboccipital, placing the hands beneath the patient head applying pressure up and backward, pressure was maintained till tissue relaxation was occurred flexes the head of the patient to get the chin to the manibiurim sternii, plus the passive stretch exercise
• Neural slump sliding stretch
Patient in a comfortable short sitting position at the edge of the bed with the trunk in an military straight position then ask the patient to slump; flex her neck and street the knee joint in complete extension the at the end of the procedure do active dorsiflexion at the tested foot plus the passive stretch exercise
• control (passive stretch exercises)
The patient in a comfortable supine lying position, the patient was asked to flex his hip joint with complete knee extension and ankle in neutral position. The therapist stretches the hamstring of the dominant side

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Egypt	Olfat Ibrahim Ali	Giza	Dokki

Sponsors (2)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Cairo University	Batterjee Medical College

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Egypt, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Active knee extension test	Measure the knee extension knee joint from a supine lying position with hip and knee joints flexed to 90 degree.	Immediately after the procedure
Primary	Active knee extension test	Measure the knee extension knee joint from a supine lying position with hip and knee joints flexed to 90 degree.	4 weeks
Secondary	Straight leg raising test	Patient asked to raise her leg with extended knee and measure the hip joint jt flexion angle	Immediately after the procedure
Secondary	Straight leg raising test	Patient asked to raise her leg with extended knee and measure the hip joint jt flexion angle	4 weeks
Secondary	Forward flexion test	subjects were asked to flex her trunk with his hands facing forward, maintaining the knee in extended position and measure the distance between hand ground	Immediately after the procedure
Secondary	Forward flexion test	subjects were asked to flex her trunk with his hands facing forward, maintaining the knee in extended position and measure the distance between hand ground	4 weeks