Pectoralis Minor Shorthening and Swimming Performance

Summary

Swimming is one of the sports branches that includes many factors such as aerobic and anaerobic endurance, strength, flexibility, speed, quickness, rhythm, coordination as well as sportive performance and technical skills.

Athletes must have a high level of fitness, strength, coordination, agility, speed and motor control to perform at an elite level with minimal injury risk.

Repetitive upper extremity movements imposed by freestyle swimming may lead to changes in muscle length and tension by paving the way for postural misalignment in adolescent swimmers.

As can be seen in the studies, young swimmers who are preparing for the competition have postural disorders and injuries related to use, such as decreased posture, shoulder joint range of motion and subacromial distance.

Pectoralis minor stretching exercise to be performed in swimmers is aimed to improve swimming performance and prevent possible postural disorders by contributing to the increase of maximal shoulder muscle strength as well as correcting the incorrectly developed posture in children.

Conditions

• The Study Will Not be Based on Any Disease
• Ability to Swim 100m Independent Freestyle
• Be Between the Ages of 9-16
• Continuing Running as Part of a Sports Club

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

pektoralis minor shortnes

One factor that is effective in acceleration during swimming is the force of the arm pulling the water. While the pectoralis minor muscle pulls the crocoid process forward, it pulls its posterolateral corner down, which helps the latismus dorsi to make an extension movement and the lower trapezius to depress the scapula. When the pectoralis minor muscle is short, it prevents maximum reach in the arm because its full function cannot be revealed. It is thought that depression of the scapula will directly affect acceleration in swimming, as it increases the backward thrust of the arm.

BEHAVIORAL

Group in which the Pectoralis Minor stretching exercise was performed in a sham manner

In most cases, exercise practices also affect the person psychologically. In order to ignore the psychological effects of the exercises, they were made to perform exercises that were similar to pectoralis minor stretching exercises but did not activate the muscle

BEHAVIORAL

The group in which Pectoralis Minor stretching exercise was not applied

The Control Group was not given any exercise and they continued to do their own training.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Istinye University

  lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

• Habibe Serap İnal, PhD · İstinye Univercity

Study Design

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH

Masking

NONE

Model

PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age

9 Years

Max Age

16 Years

Sex

ALL

Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start

2022-12-29

Primary Completion

2023-08-30

Completion

2023-10-30

Countries

• Turkey (Türkiye)

Study Locations