POST ISOMETRIC HAMSTRING STRETCHING;

Abstract

Objectives: Muscles and skeleton work together if any human being wants toroam around. If muscles and joint move to their full range then a free and purposeful action isachieved and goal is met for which movement was performed. If movement abnormality is seenthen its underlying cause can be tight muscle especially the hamstring in the lower extremity.Tight hamstring is quite common in normal individuals. This tightness is not desirable andneeds to be treated particularly when somebody needs to perform full range of motion withoutany difficulty. There are numerous choices to achieve this purpose. Different researchers usedifferent choices according to their own thinking. The main theme underlying this researchis to find out evidence based treatment option to treat the tight hamstring group. StudyDesign: randomized controlled trial. Place and Duration: different football clubs of Lahorefrom March 2015 to June 2015. Methodology: For this research two groups of football playerswere utilized. One group was selected for post isometric relaxation technique alone whileother group received a combination therapy containing post isometric relaxation and crossfrictional massage. Result: the p-value for the group 1 was 0.51 while for group 2 was 0.000.Conclusion: After conducting this research a conclusion was drawn that a combination ofpost isometric relaxation and cross frictional massage showed better results in releasing thetightness of hamstring than alone therapy. So a combination therapy comprising post isometricrelaxation and cross frictional massage was a better choice to treat tight hamstring.