Effect of Thrower's Ten Exercises on Flick Movement Kinematics in Underwater Hockey

Underwater hockey is a team game which is played at the bottom of the swimming pool with palettes, a mask, a snorkel, earmuffs, a stick, and a puck. The aim of the game is for one of the teams to try to score goals to the goalpost of the other by using a flicking movement. The players can drag the puck, being a kind of ball, or pass it to a teammate to reach the opponent's goalpost. The puck is passed by way of pushing or flicking.

The Thrower's Ten exercises are used for such sports branches, which involve the upper extremity and particularly the overhead activity and throwing, in order to ensure coordination, proprioception, balance and symmetry in the double upper extremity. The Thrower's Ten exercises are comprised of special exercises selected for the improvement of the flexibility, strength and endurance of the major muscles that are frequently used for throwing and overhead activity such as deltoid muscles, supraspinatus muscles, latissimus dorsi, biceps, triceps and wrist extensors. The Thrower's Ten exercises are an exercise program that focuses on the scapular muscles, particularly on posterior rotator cuff muscles in order to ensure the balance of the anterior and the posterior shoulder muscles.

The aim of this study is to evaluate the effects of The Thrower's Ten exercise program on the flicking movements in underwater hockey players.

Study Overview

• Status: Completed
• Conditions: Hockey
• Intervention / Treatment: Other: Thrower's Ten Exercise Group

Detailed Description

Underwater hockey is a team game which is played at the bottom of the swimming pool with palettes, a mask, a snorkel, earmuffs, a stick, and a puck. The aim of the game is for one of the teams to try to score goals to the goalpost of the other by using a flicking movement. The players can drag the puck, being a kind of ball, or pass it to a teammate to reach the opponent's goalpost. The puck is passed by way of pushing or flicking.

The Thrower's Ten exercises are used for such sports branches, which involve the upper extremity and particularly the overhead activity and throwing, in order to ensure coordination, proprioception, balance and symmetry in the double upper extremity. The Thrower's Ten exercises are comprised of special exercises selected for the improvement of the flexibility, strength and endurance of the major muscles that are frequently used for throwing and overhead activity such as deltoid muscles, supraspinatus muscles, latissimus dorsi, biceps, triceps and wrist extensors. The Thrower's Ten exercises are an exercise program that focuses on the scapular muscles, particularly on posterior rotator cuff muscles in order to ensure the balance of the anterior and the posterior shoulder muscles.

The aim of this study is to evaluate the effects of The Thrower's Ten exercise program on the flicking movements in underwater hockey players.

• Study Type: Interventional
• Enrollment (Actual): 17
• Phase: Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• Turkey
  • Ankara, Turkey, 06100
    • Hacettepe University, Faculty of Health Sciences, Dept. of Physiotherapy and Rehabilitation

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: Adult
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

• 1st league healthy underwater hockey players

Exclusion Criteria:

• Previous shoulder injury

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

• Primary Purpose: Treatment
• Allocation: N/A
• Interventional Model: Single Group Assignment
• Masking: None (Open Label)

Number of Arms

1

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm

Intervention / Treatment

Experimental: Thrower's Ten Exercise Group; the athletes were subjected to "Thrower's Ten" exercise program under the supervision of the same physiotherapist 3 days a week for a period of 6 weeks in addition to the routine practice programs thereof. Each session started with a 10-minute warm-up program and ended with a 10-minute cool-down program. The warm-up program included low-intensity aerobic activities and short stretching exercises. Stretching exercises for anterior-posterior-inferior capsule, right and left trapezoid muscles, chintug as well as posterior-lateral neck and latissimus dorsi muscles were given. Following the exercises, the athletes were made to perform low-intensity jogging and static stretching exercises. All athletes, who were included in the study sample, continued attending their 2-hour routine pool practice on 4 days a week in addition to the "Thrower's Ten" exercises for 6 weeks.

Other: Thrower's Ten Exercise Group; the athletes were subjected to "Thrower's Ten" exercise program under the supervision of the same physiotherapist 3 days a week for a period of 6 weeks in addition to their routine practice programs.

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Flicking Distance Measurement	Flicking Distance will be measured by using video cameras. Assessment will be recorded at baseline and the end of the six weeks treatment sessions	from baseline to six weeks after treatment sessions

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: Hacettepe University

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (Actual): June 1, 2023
• Primary Completion (Actual): July 15, 2023
• Study Completion (Actual): August 30, 2023

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: May 29, 2023
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: June 7, 2023
• First Posted (Actual): June 8, 2023

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Actual): September 25, 2023
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: September 21, 2023
• Last Verified: September 1, 2023

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Keywords: kinematics; underwater hockey; throwers ten exercise
• Other Study ID Numbers: GO 13/307

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

• Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?: UNDECIDED
• IPD Plan Description: We will share IPD when we recruiting the patients

Drug and device information, study documents

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