Effects of Warm up in Athletes With Previous Hamstring Injury

Analysis on the Effects of Two Types of Warm up in Athletes With a Previous Hamstring Injury

The objectives of this study is to determine the immediate and 10 minutes follow-up effects of a warm-up based on a continous run on a treadmill or the application of a hot-pack in athletes with previous hamstring injury. The investigators have as an hypothesis that the subjects, after one of this interventions show statistically significant improvements in the measurements of pain, flexibility, proprioception and postural control

Study Overview

• Status: Completed
• Conditions: Previous Hamstring Injury
• Intervention / Treatment: Other: Warm Up; Other: Hot Pack

• Study Type: Interventional
• Enrollment (Actual): 62
• Phase: Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• Spain
  • Badajoz, Spain, 06071
    • Universidad de Extremadura

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: 18 years to 27 years (Adult)
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No
• Genders Eligible for Study: All

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

• To be 18-27 years old
• To do sports as a minimum of 5 hours per week.
• To have done sport in the last 2 years
• Have a hamstring flexibility of ≤80º on Kendall test
• Diagnosed hamstring injury the last year

Exclusion Criteria:

• To take drugs that alter the motor o postural control
• To do a program of stretching of the hamstring
• To have lumbar pain
• Recent abdominal or spinal surgery intervention

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

• Primary Purpose: Prevention
• Allocation: Randomized
• Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
• Masking: None (Open Label)

Number of Arms

2

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm	Intervention / Treatment
Active Comparator: Warm Up	Other: Warm Up; Run on a treadmill during 10 minutes without fatigue of the participant after this time.
Active Comparator: Hot Pack	Other: Hot Pack; 20 minutes of hot-pack on both hamstring

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Range of movement	degrees	Changes from baseline at immediately after and at 10 minutes after the intervention
Pain	Visual Analogue Scale. From 0 (not pain) to 10 (maximum pain in the world)	Changes from baseline at immediately after and at 10 minutes after the intervention

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Pressure pain threshold (PPT)	Measurement of the pressure (kg/cm2) with an algometer	Changes from baseline at immediately after and at 10 minutes after the intervention
Joint Position Sense	Degrees	Changes from baseline at immediately after and at 10 minutes after the intervention

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: University of Extremadura
• Collaborators: Luis Espejo Antúnez
• Investigators: Study Director: Javier Gutiérrez Coronado, Physioterapist

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (Actual): November 13, 2017
• Primary Completion (Actual): December 4, 2017
• Study Completion (Actual): July 23, 2019

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: February 2, 2018
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: February 18, 2018
• First Posted (Actual): February 23, 2018

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Actual): September 30, 2020
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: September 27, 2020
• Last Verified: September 1, 2020

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Keywords: pain; athletes; warm-up; Thermotherapy; extensibility
• Additional Relevant MeSH Terms: Wounds and Injuries
• Other Study ID Numbers: 19731973

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

• Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?: NO

Drug and device information, study documents

• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product: No
• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product: No