NCT02674919

Nordic Hamstring and Repeated-sprint Ability in Football (Soccer) Players

The Efficacy of a 10-week Intervention, Using the Nordic Hamstring Exercise, on Repeated-sprint Ability in Football (Soccer) Players - a Randomized Controlled Trial

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 35 (actual)
• Sponsor: Hvidovre University Hospital · Academic / Other
• Sex: Male
• Age: 17 Years – 35 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The purpose of the study is to investigate the efficacy of a 10-week intervention, using the Nordic Hamstring exercise, on repeated-sprint ability in male sub-elite football players. The primary outcome measure is total sprint time during 4x6 sprint of 10 meters measured using dual-beam photoelectric cells. Additionally, eccentric knee flexor strength is measured using the Nordbord hamstring strength measure. The hypothesis is that strength training of the knee flexor muscles elicited by the Nordic Hamstring exercise will result in enhanced repetitive sprint-ability expressed as a decrease in total sprint time. Furthermore, baseline data is used to assess to correlation between eccentric hamstring strength and active hamstring flexibility AND sprint performance.

Conditions

• Repeated-sprint Ability

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Nordic Hamstring
OTHER	Control

Timeline

• Start date: 2016-02-01
• Primary completion: 2016-06-01
• Completion: 2016-06-01
• First posted: 2016-02-05
• Last updated: 2018-06-14

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Denmark