Can relaxation or visualisation affect muscle elasticity more than static hamstring stretching? A crossover study.
Item
- Title
- Can relaxation or visualisation affect muscle elasticity more than static hamstring stretching? A crossover study.
- Author(s)
- Madeley, E
- Abstract
- Background: Hamstring injury/tightness can be a problem from a clinical point of view, and can lead to a very common complaint that presents to osteopaths: lower back pain. There are questions raised that go into whether muscle relaxation techniques are more effective by doing relaxation techniques or influencing peripheral neryous system (pNS) via static stretching (SS) Objectives: This experiment assessed the hamstring extensibility (HE) in asymptomatic individuals after a SS, a visualisation technique (W) and a five minute deep relaxation technique (DRT) to see which held the most substantial changes. Design: A crossover design study (asymptomatic pre test/post test). Methods: All participants were subjected to deep relaxation on day one, passive hamstring stretch on day two and a W of the hamstring stretch on day 3 (all event days were spread apart by 3 days). The participants then were measured again to test if the SRT results changed within three minutes of the intervention procedure and another three scores were written with again an average calculated. Approval from the ethics board was gained from the ESO research ethics board (REC). Equipment used were a sit and reach test (sRT), cassette player with a DRT tape (five minutes long), treatment couch for the relaxation phase and a laptop with Excel and Analyse-it software. The strategy was to calculate the scores using Excel and ANOVA for analysis approach from pre and post intervention in order to measure any changes. Results: For all 6 groups ANOVA was used as the data conformed to assumptions of parametric testing. ANOVA was used to test these differences. Discussion: Fourteen participants took part and completed the study, nine being female and five male Conclusion: ln conclusion there is a low correlation between DR, vr and ss on HE immediately after intervention in healthy individuals from a wide age and BMI range. Reliability of the interventions was questionable as it was difficult to quantify the subject's ability in the w and DR techniques. SS was easier to assess visually.
- presented at
- European School of Osteopathy
- Date Accepted
- 2017
- Date Submitted
- 4.12.2017 17:06:21
- Type
- osteo_thesis
- Language
- English
- Submitted by:
- 62
- Pub-Identifier
- 16048
- Inst-Identifier
- 1229
- Keywords
- Deep relaxation therapy, sit and reach test, stretching and visualisation.
- Recommended
- 0
- Item sets
- Thesis
Madeley, E, “Can relaxation or visualisation affect muscle elasticity more than static hamstring stretching? A crossover study.”, Osteopathic Research Web, accessed April 23, 2025, https://library.wso.at/s/orw/item/488