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<< Tillbaka| Överskrift | Efficacy of moist heat pack application over static stretching on hamstring flexibility |
|---|---|
| Upplaga | 15(1) |
| Sidor | 123-6 |
| Överskrift | Efficacy of moist heat pack application over static stretching on hamstring flexibility |
| Beskrivning | Inadequate flexibility is a contributing factor to muscle injury, especially with respect to the hamstring muscle group. Simple therapeutic regimens capable of increasing hamstring flexibility may reduce the injury potential of athletes with below-average hamstring flexibility or history of injury. This study compared 30 seconds of static stretching with 20 minutes of heat application on hamstring flexibility. A secondary purpose was to determine the relationship between the subjects attitude toward each treatment and the efficacy of treatment. Thirty undergraduate student athletes who were current members of a Midwestern collegiate football team participated in a 2 (treatment: heat vs. stretching) by 2 (coun-terbalanced order: heat first vs. stretching first) repeated-measures design. Results indicated that significant benefits to increase hamstring flexibility could be gained by using moist heat packs in comparison with static stretching despite a perceived attitudinal bias in favor of stretching. These findings may have implications for orthopedic fitness as well as injury prevention for an athlete with prior hamstring injury or inadequate flexibility. |
| Källa | J Strength Cond Res |
| Publicerad | 2001 |
| Författare | Adams KJ, Agren G, Funk D, Kurosawa M, Lekman M, Lund I, Lundeberg T., Rosen A, Swank AM, Treolo D, Uvnas-Moberg K, Wang J, Yu C, Yu LC |