Repeated Passive Stretching: Acute Effect on the Passive Muscle Moment and Extensibility of Short Hamstrings

Overview

Journal Arch Phys Med Rehabil

Specialty Rehabilitation Medicine

Date 1999 Apr 17

PMID 10206602

Citations 14

Authors

J P Halbertsma

I Mulder

L N Goeken

W H Eisma

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Abstract

Objective: To examine the response of short hamstring muscles to repeated passive stretching.

Design: A repeated measures design.

Setting: A university laboratory for human movement analysis in a department of rehabilitation.

Subjects: Students (7 men, 10 women) from the Department of Human Movement Sciences.

Main Outcome Measures: The lift force, range of motion, pelvic-femoral angle, first sensation of pain, and electromyogram of the hamstrings were measured.

Results: Comparison of the data of the test group (n = 17) after five successive passive stretch tests by means of an instrumental straight-leg raising test showed no significant change of the variables passive muscle stiffness and extensibility (p>.05).

Conclusion: The acute effect of repeated passive stretching of short hamstring muscles is negligible. With an instrumental straight-leg raising test, the relevant muscle variables can be examined noninvasively.

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