Clinical Trial: Acute Effect of Static Stretching and Muscle Warming on the Functional Performance of College Volleyball Athletes

Study Status: Completed
Recruit Status: Completed
Study Type: Interventional

Official Title:

Brief Summary:

The purpose of this study is analyze the effects of static stretching and active warm up, isolated and associated, in functional performance of the lower limbs in college volleyball athletes.

Study hypothesis:

H0: The stretching and / or warm up, alone or in combination, do not alter the functional performance of volleyball players.

H1: The stretching and / or warm up, alone or in combination, alter the functional performance of volleyball players.


Detailed Summary: This is a cross-over study containing 11 volleyball athletes randomly divided into 5 groups: control (C), warming-up (gAQ), stretching (gAL), warming-up and stretching (gAQAL), stretching and warming-up (gALAQ). All subjects underwent the evaluation measures of functional performance that were conducted pre and post intervention.
Sponsor: Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte

Current Primary Outcome: Muscle Power [ Time Frame: Evaluation of power after fifteen minutes the application of intervention ]

Power measured by Jump System


Original Primary Outcome: Same as current

Current Secondary Outcome:

Original Secondary Outcome:

Information By: Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte

Dates:
Date Received: February 18, 2016
Date Started: December 2015
Date Completion:
Last Updated: March 26, 2016
Last Verified: March 2016