POST ISOMETRIC HAMSTRING STRETCHING;

EFFICACY OF POST ISOMETRIC HAMSTRING STRETCHING WITH AND WITHOUT CROSS FRICTIONAL MASSAGE FOOTBALL PLAYERS

Abstract

Objectives: Muscles and skeleton work together if any human being wants to
roam around. If muscles and joint move to their full range then a free and purposeful action is
achieved and goal is met for which movement was performed. If movement abnormality is seen
then 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 and
needs to be treated particularly when somebody needs to perform full range of motion without
any difficulty. There are numerous choices to achieve this purpose. Different researchers use
different choices according to their own thinking. The main theme underlying this research
is to find out evidence based treatment option to treat the tight hamstring group. Study
Design: randomized controlled trial. Place and Duration: different football clubs of Lahore
from March 2015 to June 2015. Methodology: For this research two groups of football players
were utilized. One group was selected for post isometric relaxation technique alone while
other group received a combination therapy containing post isometric relaxation and cross
frictional 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 of
post isometric relaxation and cross frictional massage showed better results in releasing the
tightness of hamstring than alone therapy. So a combination therapy comprising post isometric
relaxation and cross frictional massage was a better choice to treat tight hamstring.