Miodural Bridge Stretching in Posture Modification in Professional Footballers

NCT ID: NCT04290065

Last Updated: 2021-09-05

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: WITHDRAWN
• Clinical Phase: NA
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2020-03-02
• Study Completion Date: 2020-06-10

Brief Summary

Fatigue influences the kinematics of the knee. Decreasing the tone of the suboccipital musculature may decrease the tone of the knee flexors. Inhibition of the suboccipital musculature is used to improve ischiosural muscle tension.

The main objective of the study is to evaluate the effectiveness of the stretching of the miodural bridge in the modification of the posture in professional soccer players of 3rd division.

Randomized clinical trial. 30 players will be randomized to the two study groups: experimental (technique of stretching technique of the miodural bridge) and control (without intervention). A blinded evaluator will perform three evaluations: pretreatment, post-treatment and follow-up. The study variables will be: modification of posture and weight distribution (plantar pressure platform). The sample distribution will be calculated using a Kolmogórov-Smirnov analysis. The changes after each evaluation will be analyzed with the t-student test of related samples and through an ANOVA of repeated measures the intra and intersubject effect will be observed. The effect size will be calculated using Cohen's formula.

After stretching the miodural bridge, it is expected to see improvement in posture changes.

Conditions

Hamstring Injury

Study Design

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

Study Groups

Experimental group

The intervention will take place over a period of 4 weeks, with 2 weekly sessions, with an estimated execution time of 1.50 to 3 minutes each. A manual therapy technique of inhibition of the suboccipital musculature and an axial traction of the upper hemiarchy will be performed

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

Manual therapy

Intervention Type: OTHER

The patient will be lying supine, relaxed. The physiotherapist, located at the patient's head, will cover the occipital bone with one hand while the palm of the hand will rest on the lambdoid suture, and the fingers will be introduced into the suboccipital space. The other hand, with a glove, will be inserted into the patient's oral cavity, resting respectively the index and middle fingers, each in an upper dental hemiarchy, on the chewing face of the tooth. An axial traction will be carried out until the three tension barriers of equal size between them are overcome, in an estimated time between 1.50 and 3 minutes. All manual therapy sessions will be performed by the same physiotherapist, following the same protocol and under the same conditions.

Control group

Athletes included in the control group will not perform any intervention, continuing with their usual routine.

Group Type: NO_INTERVENTION

No interventions assigned to this group

Interventions

Manual therapy

The patient will be lying supine, relaxed. The physiotherapist, located at the patient's head, will cover the occipital bone with one hand while the palm of the hand will rest on the lambdoid suture, and the fingers will be introduced into the suboccipital space. The other hand, with a glove, will be inserted into the patient's oral cavity, resting respectively the index and middle fingers, each in an upper dental hemiarchy, on the chewing face of the tooth. An axial traction will be carried out until the three tension barriers of equal size between them are overcome, in an estimated time between 1.50 and 3 minutes. All manual therapy sessions will be performed by the same physiotherapist, following the same protocol and under the same conditions.

Intervention Type: OTHER

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

• Football players
• Male
• From 18 to 23 years old
• That have a federation file in 3rd division in the Region of Murcia
• That you don't have any acute lesions at the time of the study.

Exclusion Criteria

• Subjects that: present some relevant subacute or chronic pathology that may have a direct impact on the processes or structures related to the study who have neurological problems or related to the vestibular system
• That receive a specific Physiotherapy training on any of the study regions
• Not sign the informed consent document

• Minimum Eligible Age: 18 Years
• Maximum Eligible Age: 23 Years
• Eligible Sex: MALE
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes

Sponsors

Investigación en Hemofilia y Fisioterapia

NETWORK

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Responsibility Role: SPONSOR

Locations

Universidad Europea de Madrid

Madrid, Comunity of Madrid, Spain

Countries

Spain

Other Identifiers

POST

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id