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Prevention of Hamstring Injuries in Football Players.

NCT05773404 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 66

Last updated 2025-09-03

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Summary

Introduction: The prevalence of hamstring injuries in football is high, causing an increase in the number of casualties and a high socio-economic cost. Currently there are different treatment protocols for this muscle group, but there are often no comparisons of different types of passive, active and combined therapies, and their potential efficacy, in professional football players.

Objectives: To compare the efficacy of three different interventions; passive manual therapy, active therapy based on therapeutic exercise and combined therapy, in relation to hamstring injuries in professional football players.

Methodology: A simple Randomised Clinical Trial (RCT) was conducted (NCT04935398). After applying the selection criteria, a sample of 66 professional football players was obtained. They were divided into 3 intervention groups (A, B and C) with 22 participants in each group and were given passive manual therapy, active therapy (exercise) and combined therapy (sum of the above). The corresponding tests and questionnaires were evaluated to obtain data on hamstring flexibility and hip range of movement at three time periods: pre, post and post2.

Conditions

  • Hamstring Injuries

Interventions

OTHER

Passive Neurodynamics and Passive axial hip mobilisation/distraction

The physiotherapist performs passive techniques on the hamstring muscles and the nerve that innervates the hamstring muscles.

OTHER

Active therapy

Active lumbopelvic CORE control exercises and active stretching of the ischiopelvic nerves

OTHER

2.5.3. Combined therapy

The physiotherapist performs passive techniques on the hamstring muscles and the nerve that innervates the hamstring muscles and active lumbopelvic CORE control exercises and active stretching of the ischiopelvic nerves.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Universidad Católica de Ávila

    lead OTHER

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Max Age
40 Years
Sex
FEMALE
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2023-03-01
Primary Completion
2023-12-21
Completion
2024-04-28

Countries

  • Spain

Study Locations

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