Static Stretching of the Hamstring Muscle for Injury Prevention in Football Codes: a Systematic Review

Rogan, Slavko; Wüst, Dirk; Schwitter, Thomas; Schmidtbleicher, Dietmar

doi:10.5812/asjsm.34519

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“…Thigh injuries are similarly thought to be caused by decreased flexibility and muscle weakness of the thighs. It has been reported that static stretching and improvement in flexibility are effective in preventing thigh injuries 25‐27 . The intervention in this study improved the HBD and SLR angle, which we consider as related to the reduced incidence of thigh injuries.…”

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“…The study intervention improved the flexibility of the lower limbs, leading to a reduction in the overall injury rate. It has been previously reported that decreased flexibility and muscle weakness can cause injuries, and stretching and improvement in flexibility are effective for injury prevention 23‐29 . Lumbar/lower back injuries are thought to be caused by decreased flexibility around the hip joint and muscle weakness of the trunk muscles.…”

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Injury prevention effects of stretching exercise intervention by physical therapists in male high school soccer players

Azuma

Someya

2020

Scandinavian Med Sci Sports

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Soccer is one of the most popular team sports in the world, with the number of players reaching 260 million. 1 Recent epidemiological studies in soccer have shown that the incidence of sports injuries (ie, traumas and disorders) of the lower limbs is high (accounting for 67.3% of match injuries, 70.7% of training injuries), and the trauma injury rate clearly increases with the soccer competition level, with physical and environmental factors also involved. 2 The incidence of injuries is higher

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Injury prevention effects of stretching exercise intervention by physical therapists in male high school soccer players

Azuma

Someya

2020

Scandinavian Med Sci Sports

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“…This situation means that evaluative clinical processes must constantly be fine-tuned, along with the application of specific tests (Brukner et al, 2014). On the other hand, Rogan, Wust, Schwitter and Schmidtbleicher (2013) promote the need to systematically perform flexibility evaluations as one of the alternatives to prevent injuries in sport.…”

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Confiabilidad de pruebas para flexibilidad en futbolistas jóvenes de un club profesional [Reliability of Flexibility Tests in Young Soccer Players From a Professional Club]

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“…muscles showing the greater tendency to shorten [2,4]. The hamstring are the group of muscles that have a tendency to shorten even among young, healthy individuals and in recreational athletes [5].…”

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Comparison of Immediate Effect on Hamstring Flexibility Using Non Ballistic Active Knee Extension in Neural Slump Position and Static Stretch Technique

Pratiksha¹,

Bharati²

2017

IJPR

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Background: Amongst all of the biarticular muscles of the human body hamstring have a greater tendency to shorten. Increased tension in the neural structures has also been shown to be one of the most important causative factor for the hamstring tightness for which mobilisation of the nervous system has emerged as a significant adjunct apart from routine stretching techniques. There are lots of studies available which has proven the effect of stretching on the hamstring flexibility, but only after giving the multiple sessions. Thus the aim of this study was to determine whether a single session of hamstring stretching by neural slump and static stretch technique improves hamstring flexibility or not.Materials and Methods: 60 healthy individuals between the age groups of 18-30 as per the inclusion and exclusion criterion were enrolled for the study. Hamstring tightness was measured using knee flexion angle. Subjects were asked to actively extend their knee from 90-90 hip knee flexion in supine position, individuals having knee flexion angle more than 15 degrees were assumed to have hamstring tightness and were randomly allocated and divided into 2 groups, group A was given static stretch in modified Hurdler's position and group B was given neural slump stretch, having 30 subjects in each group.Result: Data was collected and statistically analyzed using the appropriate statistical tests. Results showed significant reduction in hamstring tightness in both the groups and on comparison, group B (Neural slump stretch) was found to be more effective than group A (Static stretch).Conclusion: Neural slump stretch was found to be more effective in immediately improving the hamstring flexibility as compared to static stretch.

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Static Stretching of the Hamstring Muscle for Injury Prevention in Football Codes: a Systematic Review

Cited by 17 publications

References 41 publications

Injury prevention effects of stretching exercise intervention by physical therapists in male high school soccer players

Injury prevention effects of stretching exercise intervention by physical therapists in male high school soccer players

Confiabilidad de pruebas para flexibilidad en futbolistas jóvenes de un club profesional [Reliability of Flexibility Tests in Young Soccer Players From a Professional Club]

Comparison of Immediate Effect on Hamstring Flexibility Using Non Ballistic Active Knee Extension in Neural Slump Position and Static Stretch Technique

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