NCT03160937

Neurodynamic Mobilization and Foam Rolling

Neurodynamic Mobilization and Foam Rolling in Delayed-onset Muscle Soreness in a Healthy Adult Population: a Randomized Controlled Clinical Trial

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 32 (actual)
• Sponsor: Centro Universitario La Salle · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 40 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The purpose of this study was to assess the acute effects of a single NM treatment session on DOMS and to compare them with those of one foam roller (FR) session. Following the damaging plyometric exercise bout, the participants were randomly assigned in a counter-balanced fashion to either a FR or NM treatment group; treatments were administered 48-h post-exercise. The dependent variables were recorded before the exercise, 48-h post-exercise before treatment, and immediately post-treatment.

Detailed description

Currently, the foam-rolling massage is often used by athletes from many sports. However, there are a few studies on the effects of foam-rolling massage and they have conflicting results regarding the improvements in ROM and muscular performance. In contrast, neurodynamic mobilization (NM) is a manual therapy method used to assess and treat neuromuscular disorders. It includes gliding techniques and tensile techniques. Gliding techniques or "sliders" are intended to produce a sliding movement between neural structures and adjacent nonneural tissues. NM has been shown to reduce pain and soreness and improve ROM. However, no studies have investigated its effects after exercise-induced muscle soreness or DOMS.

Conditions

• Exercise-induced Muscle Damage
• Movement Disorders
• Nerve Pain

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Manual therapy	The subjects repeated this motion for 1 min, rested for 30 s, and then repeated it again for 5 sets.

Timeline

• Start date: 2017-01-10
• Primary completion: 2017-03-10
• Completion: 2017-04-10
• First posted: 2017-05-19
• Last updated: 2017-05-19