Hamstring tightness is a feeling that often felt by futsal players, which can interfere with performance during playing. Previous studies suggest stretching solve it. However, hamstring associated weakness, so strengthening exercises are required to treat Strengthening consist of concentric and eccentric exercises, differ in the direction muscle contraction. This study aimed observe effect conc...

Objectives: A functional helpful exercise that tends to correct postural unevenness and endeavours to re-establish lumbo-pelvic mechanics would appear to be beneficial for patients with postural impairment. This study evaluated the effects of right sidelying respiratory left adductor pull back exercise on improving hip biomechanics in participants with a tendency to stand on right side. Method...

[Purpose] This study investigated the effects of resistance exercise using Thera-band on balance of elderly adults. [Methods] Subjects (age range, 60-70 years) were randomly assigned to an experimental (n=12) or control group (n=12). The experimental group performed stretching and resistance exercises, and the control group performed stretching exercises only. Before and after the 5-week interv...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Warm-up prior to static stretching enhances muscle extensibility. The relative effectiveness of different modes of warm-up, however, is unknown. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of superficial heat, deep heat, and active exercise warm-up prior to stretching compared with stretching alone on the extensibility of the plantar-flexor muscles. SUBJ...

BACKGROUND The restless legs syndrome is a sensorimotor disorder that is very common in patients on hemodialysis. Due to pharmacological treatments which have their own side effects, nowadays, studies have turned to non-pharmacological treatments. OBJECTIVES The present study aims to assess the effect of stretching exercises on the severity of restless legs syndrome in patients on hemodialysi...

The objective of this study was to verify if there have been changes in the indices of injury of corridors of State military police of Rio de Janeiro, crowded in, which combined sessions 7Bpm undertake dynamic stretching. The sample consists of 92 officers, aged 23 and 45 years. Measure the anthropometric data regarding (weight and height) time in practicing physical activity, food and sex. Eac...

The aim of this study was to examine the acute effects of pre- performance lower limb massage after warm-up on explosive and high-speed motor capacities and flexibility. Twenty-four physically active healthy Caucasian male subjects volunteered to participate in this study. All subjects were from a Physical Education and Sport Department in a large university in Turkey. The study had a counterba...

Surya Namaskar (SN), a group of Yogic exercise consists of a set of twelve postures which is practiced by some of the yoga practitioners. The present study was undertaken to observe critically the energy cost and different cardiorespiratory changes during the practice of SN. Twenty-one male volunteers from the Indian Army practiced selected Yogic exercises for six days in a week for three month...