NCT06423196

Upper Limb Blood Flow Restriction in Handball Players

Efficacy of Upper Limb Blood Flow Restriction in Handball Players. Randomised Clinical Study

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 22 (actual)
• Sponsor: Universidad Católica San Antonio de Murcia · Academic / Other
• Sex: Male
• Age: 18 Years – 30 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

Introduction. Blood flow restriction therapy involves the use of an occlusion cuff placed over an extremity resulting in a partial reduction of arterial blood flow and total restriction of venous return. Objectives. To analyse the efficacy of a physiotherapy intervention using blood flow restriction in improving upper limb strength in adult handball players. Methods. Randomised, single-blind, clinical study. 20 athletes will be recruited and randomly assigned to the experimental and control groups. The intervention of the experimental group will consist of performing an exercise protocol after blood flow restriction. The intervention period will last 4 weeks, with a periodicity of 2 weekly sessions of 30 minutes each. The primary variable will be the strength of the triceps, epicondyle and epitrochlear musculature (pressure hand dynamometer). The secondary variable will be the muscle activation of this musculature (surface electromyography).

Conditions

• Sports Physical Therapy

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Experimental group	In the development of the exercises, the players will mobilise dumbbells of different weights that will be estimated according to the calculation of 30% of 1 RM. This workload with dumbbells is based on previous work where blood flow restriction was used in healthy athletes.

Timeline

• Start date: 2024-05-19
• Primary completion: 2024-06-15
• Completion: 2024-07-01
• First posted: 2024-05-21
• Last updated: 2025-03-25

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Spain