Hip-Flexion Strength Training: Can Elastic Bands Induce a Relevant Effect?

Hip Flexion Strength Clinical Trial

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT01319175
• Other study ID #: H-3-2010-062
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• First received: March 18, 2011
• Last updated: March 18, 2011

Study information

• Verified date: July 2010
• Source: Amager Hospital
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Health authority: Denmark: Ethics CommitteeDenmark: Danish Dataprotection Agency
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

Strength training of the hip flexors using elastic bands can induce an effect on isometric hip strength of at least 15 %.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 0
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: Both
• Age group: 18 Years and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Physically active (more than 2.5 h/week) individuals

Exclusion Criteria:

• Injury in the lower back or legs within the last 6 months.

• Systematic strength training of the hip flexors more than once a week within the last 6 months before the study was initiated.

Study Design

Allocation: Randomized, Masking: Single Blind (Outcomes Assessor)

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Hip Flexion Strength

Intervention

Other:
• Hip flexion strength training

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Denmark	Metropol, Campus Raadmandsmarken	Copenhagen

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Amager Hospital

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Denmark, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Isometric hip flexion strength		6 weeks	No