Female Football Players Stretching Training and Performance on the Dynamic Balance

NCT ID: NCT04234256

Last Updated: 2020-08-11

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: COMPLETED
• Clinical Phase: NA
• Total Enrollment: 36 participants
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2020-01-18
• Study Completion Date: 2020-08-10

Brief Summary

This research shows the effect of stretching exercises on dynamic balance. football players divided into 2 groups do different stretching exercises, dynamic and static. The control group does not do stretching exercises. The study should show which stretching exercises have a greater effect on the Y balance test than the dynamic balance test.

Detailed Description

Injury prevention in sports is very important, and a lot of investigative time and effort is spent in this realm. Many different tools have been created that are designed to pinpoint the athlete's predisposition to or risk for injuries. Also, health professionals and coaches should work with athletes to attempt to reduce the number of injuries as much as possible. The objective of the prevention process is not to eliminate injuries, but rather to reduce them and keep them at an acceptable level. Many authors have shown that interventions that include balance exercises are very efficient in injury risk reduction as well as performance improvement after an injury. Poor balance, altered motor control, or lack of neuromuscular control have all been described as predictors of injury risk in the lower limbs of athletes. The Y-Balance Test (YBT), a validated derivation of the Star Excursion Balance Test (SEBT), is a functional screening tool that can be reliably administered for a variety of purposes: to assess lower extremity stability, monitor rehabilitation progress, understand deficits after injury, and identify athletes at high risk for lower extremity injury. For these reasons, we have decided to research whether stretching exercises can improve the Y Balance Test. The research was conducted on football players in the first league of Bosnia and Hercegovina. Comparisons were made between static and dynamic stretching and their effects on Y Balance Test performance while no stretching exercises were performed in the control group. Stretching improves body posture, achieves good muscular and joint mobility, has a positive effect on preventing injury, and reduces muscle pain, also regular stretching improves body balance. The aim is to explore which stretching exercises will increase the results on the Y Balance Test and whether this will happen at all.

This study aimed to investigate the effects of stretching exercises on the Y-Balance Test (YBT, as a test for dynamic balance) performance and postural control in female football players.

Conditions

Stretch

Study Design

• Allocation Method: RANDOMIZED
• Intervention Model: FACTORIAL
• Primary Study Purpose: PREVENTION
• Blinding Strategy: SINGLE

Study Groups

Static exercise

The experimental group doing static exercises, three times with five repetitions for a period of three months lasting 15 to 20 minutes at the end of the training.

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

Static stretching exercise

Intervention Type: OTHER

Standing quadriceps stretch, Gastrocnemius stretch, Standing split, Adductor stretch, Half kneeling groin stretch, Hamstring stretch on the bench, Prayer squat, Seated adductor and hamstring stretch, Hurdle seat, Seated glute stretch, Lying glute stretch, Seated groin abduction, Soleus stretch, Half kneeling quad stretch, Split hamstring stretch

Dynamic exercise

This group doing dynamic exercises, three times with five repetitions for a period of three months lasting 15 to 20 minutes at the end of the training.

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

Dynamic stretching exercise

Intervention Type: OTHER

Downward dog to runner's lunge, Dynamic squat stretch, Crescent to hamstring stretch, Half kneeling hamstring stretch, Side to side lunge with reach, Standing calf and hamstring stretch, Hurdles, Side to side lunge with step, IT band stretch, Walking quad stretch, Swing the leg forward and back, Swing the leg cross, Knee pull, Standing quat stretch, Standing gluteus stretch

Control group

Control group doing not the stretching exercise

Group Type: NO_INTERVENTION

No interventions assigned to this group

Interventions

Static stretching exercise

Standing quadriceps stretch, Gastrocnemius stretch, Standing split, Adductor stretch, Half kneeling groin stretch, Hamstring stretch on the bench, Prayer squat, Seated adductor and hamstring stretch, Hurdle seat, Seated glute stretch, Lying glute stretch, Seated groin abduction, Soleus stretch, Half kneeling quad stretch, Split hamstring stretch

Intervention Type: OTHER

Dynamic stretching exercise

Downward dog to runner's lunge, Dynamic squat stretch, Crescent to hamstring stretch, Half kneeling hamstring stretch, Side to side lunge with reach, Standing calf and hamstring stretch, Hurdles, Side to side lunge with step, IT band stretch, Walking quad stretch, Swing the leg forward and back, Swing the leg cross, Knee pull, Standing quat stretch, Standing gluteus stretch

Intervention Type: OTHER

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

• No musculoskeletal injury within 10 days of the start of the study,
• Age over 14 years (The Official Gazette of the Football Federation of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Women's Football League of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, article 15. states that female players who have reached the age of 14 and who have a specialist medical examination can play for the first team, a maximum of 5 player's on the field in the same game)
• Voluntary participation in the study.

Exclusion Criteria

• Age below 14 years,
• Refusal to take the examination,
• Errors in keeping records of injuries by responsible persons,
• Lower legs injuries in the last 10 days,
• Vestibular disorders.

• Minimum Eligible Age: 14 Years
• Maximum Eligible Age: 35 Years
• Eligible Sex: FEMALE
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No

Sponsors

Dragan Mijatović

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Dragan Mijatović

Master of Physiotherapy, Postgraduate Study in Health Sciences

Responsibility Role: SPONSOR_INVESTIGATOR

Principal Investigators

Dragan mijatović, MPT

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

WFC Siroki Brijeg

Locations

ŽNK Široki Brijeg

Široki Brijeg, , Bosnia and Herzegovina

Countries

Bosnia and Herzegovina

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Other Identifiers

Study 3

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id