Miodural Bridge Stretching in Posture Modification in Professional Footballers

Efficacy of a Physiotherapy Intervention by Stretching the Miodural Bridge in the Modification of Posture in Professional Soccer Players. A Randomized Clinical Study.

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.

Study Overview

• Status: Withdrawn
• Conditions: Hamstring Injury
• Intervention / Treatment: Other: Manual therapy

• Study Type: Interventional
• Phase: Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• Spain
  • Comunity Of Madrid
    • Madrid, Comunity Of Madrid, Spain, 28670
      • Universidad Europea de Madrid

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: 14 years to 19 years (Adult)
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No
• Genders Eligible for Study: Male

Description

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

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

• Primary Purpose: Prevention
• Allocation: Randomized
• Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
• Masking: Single

Number of Arms

2

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm	Intervention / Treatment
No Intervention: Control group; Athletes included in the control group will not perform any intervention, continuing with their usual routine.
Experimental: 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	Other: 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.

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Change from baseline posture modification after treatment and at month	An evaluation will be carried out with a pedometric platform. For the evaluation of plantar pressures, we use a plantar pressure platform (Podoprint® S10Pro model). This platform has 4,096 sensors, which allow a maximum pressure of 100 N / cm2 per sensor and has a sampling frequency of 150 Hz. All measurements will be made in accordance with international standards for anthropometric evaluation. All the evaluated players will adopt a relaxed and inert bipedal orthopedic position (arms held at the sides of the body, barefoot, with clothes that allowed to see the feet, legs and knees). With eyes open and looking at a fixed point, at a distance of 1.50 m for 20 seconds.	Screening visit, within the first seven days after treatment and after one month follow-up visit

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Change from baseline modification of the weight distribution after treatment and at month	An evaluation will be carried out with a pedometric platform, to assess the distribution of body weight after the intervention by stretching the Miodural Bridge. The unit of measure will be the percentage of weight in each of the evaluations	Screening visit, within the first seven days after treatment and after one month follow-up visit

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: Investigación en Hemofilia y Fisioterapia

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (Actual): March 2, 2020
• Primary Completion (Actual): May 20, 2020
• Study Completion (Actual): June 10, 2020

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: February 27, 2020
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: February 27, 2020
• First Posted (Actual): February 28, 2020

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Actual): September 5, 2021
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: September 1, 2021
• Last Verified: September 1, 2021

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Keywords: Soccer; Flexibility; Hip joint; Hamstring muscle; Suboccipital muscles
• Other Study ID Numbers: POST

Drug and device information, study documents

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