Abstract
Background: Stretching is widely used for various therapeutic purposes, fitness programs, & athletic events. Quondam research shows that stretching may have the pernicious result on performance, therefore precise knowledge of its effects on performance is important to take adequate stretching techniques into consideration for sports training and therapeutic interventions. Need of study: The purpose of our study was to inspect the changes resulting in agility performance from various stretching techniques (static stretching & muscle energy technique) descriptor for the quadriceps muscle group. Method: 60 female cricket players of age 13-15 years were selected to perform the stretching techniques (no stretch, static stretch & muscle energy technique for quadriceps) on three successive days & completed the agility T-test after the three stretching techniques were executed. Result: The mean of agility t-test time were: control group (no stretch) =16.93 seconds, static stretch group=16.3 seconds, muscle energy technique group=16.18 seconds. The test of significance ANOVA shows no statistical significant difference, F=2.8, p=0.05, for the control group (no stretch), static stretching, and muscle energy technique in agility T-test times. Statistical T-test analysis reveals that there is a significant difference between no stretch (control group) and MET group, p-value 0.02 & non-significant difference between no stretch (control group) & static stretch group, p-value 0.057 & static stretch & MET group, p-value 0.72. Conclusion: To conclude, results of our study evince that there is no significant effect on agility after receiving the different stretching techniques with respect to quadriceps muscle.
Highlights
Stretching is a therapeutic activity done to increase the extensile properties of soft tissue structures &, thereby enhance the flexibility by elongating contractures or hypomobile structures.[1, 2, 3] Static stretching is a technique in which the contracted or hypomobile structure is held in a lengthened position beyond the point of resistance for a specific period of time
Group A: 20 subjects performed no stretch on the first day of the data collection, after 24 hours static stretching was done on the second day, & after 24 hours muscle energy technique (MET) was done on the third day
The test of significance ANOVA was done: Analysis of the results showed p=0.05 which reveals there is no significant difference among the three treatment protocols on agility performance
Summary
Stretching is a therapeutic activity done to increase the extensile properties of soft tissue structures &, thereby enhance the flexibility by elongating contractures or hypomobile structures.[1, 2, 3] Static stretching is a technique in which the contracted or hypomobile structure is held in a lengthened position beyond the point of resistance for a specific period of time. Need of study: The purpose of our study was to inspect the changes resulting in agility performance from various stretching techniques (static stretching & muscle energy technique) descriptor for the quadriceps muscle group. Method: 60 female cricket players of age 13-15 years were selected to perform the stretching techniques (no stretch, static stretch & muscle energy technique for quadriceps) on three successive days & completed the agility T-test after the three stretching techniques were executed. Result: The mean of agility t-test time were: control group (no stretch) =16.93 seconds, static stretch group=16.3 seconds, muscle energy technique group=16.18 seconds. The test of significance ANOVA shows no statistical significant difference, F=2.8, p=0.05, for the control group (no stretch), static stretching, and muscle energy technique in agility T-test times. Conclusion: To conclude, results of our study evince that there is no significant effect on agility after receiving the different stretching techniques with respect to quadriceps muscle.
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