NCT05220215

Resistance Band Training Versus Nordic Hamstring Exercise on Hamstring Strength Among Football Players

Compare the Effects of Resistance Band Training and Nordic Hamstring Exercise on Hamstring Strength Among Football Players

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 34 (actual)
• Sponsor: Riphah International University · Academic / Other
• Sex: Male
• Age: 18 Years – 28 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The major aim of this project to compare the effects of Resistance band training and Nordic hamstring exercise on hamstring strength among football players.

Detailed description

Hamstring strength is important in football players and plays an important role in their sprint gait cycle. Football players should develop sprinter-like musculature in order to benefit their body strength and power hence preventing from hamstring strain injuries. Professional and recreational sports like Football, hamstring muscle strength training is commonly used to increase and balance lower body strength and power.

Conditions

• Intervention
• Injury Prevention

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Nordic Hamstring Exercise	To perform Nordic Hamstring Exercise, the subject was in kneeling position on the mat, arms by the side or in front of the chest, knee in 90-degree flexion and ankles well stabilized with the help of a therapist which is positioned behind the subject. Then subject was asked to lean forward by using the hamstring muscles by extending while trying to resist the forward fall, he should lean forward from the knee and not from the hip. The only time one can put his hands in front of him is when he can't rely on his legs and then push himself back to starting position and them repeat the procedure again.
OTHER	Hamstring Curl with Resistance band	Traditional Hamstring Curl by using Resistance band. Resistance Band: Thera-band Green, 4.6 kg resistance at 100% elongation

Timeline

• Start date: 2021-06-29
• Primary completion: 2021-10-31
• Completion: 2021-11-01
• First posted: 2022-02-02
• Last updated: 2022-02-02

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Pakistan