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NCT Number: NCT05220215

Resistance Band Training Versus Nordic Hamstring Exercise on Hamstring Strength Among Football Players

The major aim of this project to compare the effects of Resistance band training and Nordic hamstring exercise on hamstring strength among football players.

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Key information

Conditions

Intervention Injury Prevention

Age range

18 year–28 year

Sex eligibility

Male

Study type

Interventional

Phase

Not applicable

Primary location

Riphah international university

Islamabad, 44000, Pakistan

About this study

Hamstring strength is important in football players and plays an important role in their sprint gait cycle. Football players should develop sprinter-like musculature in order to benefit their body strength and power hence preventing from hamstring strain injuries. Professional and recreational sports like Football, hamstring muscle strength training is commonly used to increase and balance lower body strength and power.

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: Yes

Only the study team can determine whether someone qualifies for participation.

Inclusion criteria

  • Male
  • Age: 18-28 years
  • Football players
  • Playing should be at least for 1 year

Exclusion criteria

  • To be involved in any additional strength training program i-e: Gym Activities
  • Athletes having hamstring and Quadriceps injuries
  • History of trauma at knee, hip or back
  • Recent history of any upper and lower extremity fracture
  • Any orthopedic or neurological disorder.

Treatment and study plan

Nordic Hamstring Exercise

Other

To perform Nordic Hamstring Exercise, the subject was in kneeling position on the mat, arms by the side or in front of the chest, knee in 90-degree flexion and ankles well stabilized with the help of a therapist which is positioned behind the subject. Then subject was asked to lean forward by using the hamstring muscles by extending while trying to resist the forward fall, he should lean forward from the knee and not from the hip. The only time one can put his hands in front of him is when he can't rely on his legs and then push himself back to starting position and them repeat the procedure again.

Hamstring Curl with Resistance band

Other

Traditional Hamstring Curl by using Resistance band.

Resistance Band: Thera-band Green, 4.6 kg resistance at 100% elongation

Primary outcomes

  1. Modified sphygmomanometer Test

    Time frame: 4 weeks

    Modified sphygmomanometer is a non-invasive test and method which may provide reliable, rapid and valid measurement of assessing hamstring strength in field-based sports.

  2. Manual Muscle Test (MMT)

    Time frame: 4 weeks

    Manual muscle test (MMT) is a procedure for the evaluation of strength of individual muscle or muscles group, based upon the effective performance of a movement in relation to the forces of gravity or Manual Resistance through the available Range of motion (ROM). Manual Muscle Testing Grading System from 0=No visible or palpable contraction to 5= full range of movement against gravity, maximal resistance.

Secondary outcomes

  1. 40-yard dash Test

    Time frame: 4 weeks

    Subjects were asked to be ready in a starting position with the appropriate foot position behind the starting line without any physical movements and subjects ran up to 40-yard when the signal was given out. The stopwatch was started when the players started to run and stopped when they had reached the finishing line. The procedures were repeated for the second time. Two trial results were documented and the best result was taken.

  2. Muscle soreness rating following exercise

    Time frame: 4 weeks

    Participants used a 10-point Numeric Pain Rating scale to record the level of muscle soreness experienced after 1, 2, 4-week training sessions. Ratings of soreness intensity will be assessed consisted of a single 0-10 scale, with "0" indicating "no soreness at all" and "10" indicating the "greatest soreness they could imagine".

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

Riphah International University

Other

Registry information

Official study title

Compare the Effects of Resistance Band Training and Nordic Hamstring Exercise on Hamstring Strength Among Football Players

Important dates

Study start
2021
Primary completion
2021
Study completion
2021
First posted
Feb 2, 2022
Registry last updated
Feb 2, 2022

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