The effects of active stretching exercises on quadriceps muscle strength
Item
- Title
- The effects of active stretching exercises on quadriceps muscle strength
- Author(s)
- Younger Neil
- Abstract
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Objective: To determine whether a four-week period of active stretching exercises to the quadriceps muscles of a subject's dominant leg, had any significant effect on peak torque production of that muscle group. If a significant increase in knee extension strength is found, the use of active stretching exercises could be beneficial in the treatment, rehabilitation and prevention of knee disorders.Summary of Background Data: Previous studies into the effects of stretching on muscle strength have yielded many different results. This mainly appears to be due to the different protocols that were used. Although there is this difference in the results there seems to be a trend. Those studies that measured the effects of acute stretching of muscle resulted in a decrease in peak torque production, and those that monitored the effects of long term stretching programs resulted in an increase in peak torque production.
Design: A controlled, pre and post stretching exercise comparison.
Setting: Exercise physiology laboratory, British College of Osteopathic Medicine, Lief House, London.
Subjects: Sixteen healthy, asymptomatic osteopathic college students, five males and eleven females, ranging from 21-28 years of age.
Method: A CYBEX Isokinetic Knee flexion/extension device (CYBEX KEFunit) was used to determine muscle peak force, before and after four-weeks of active stretching exercises.
Results: Statistical analysis revealed that there was a significant increase (p>0.05) in peak torque production at 60o sec after the four-week period of active stretching exercises.
Conclusion: Results indicated that four-weeks of active stretching exercises to the quadriceps muscles of asymptomatic college students showed a significantly measurable increases in peak torque production of that muscle group. - presented at
- British College of Osteopathic Medicine
- Date Accepted
- 0
- Date Submitted
- 1.1.1970 00:00:00
- Type
- osteo_thesis
- Language
- English
- Submitted by:
- 62
- Pub-Identifier
- 13617
- Inst-Identifier
- 1076
- Recommended
- 0
- Item sets
- Thesis
Younger Neil, “The effects of active stretching exercises on quadriceps muscle strength”, Osteopathic Research Web, accessed May 4, 2025, https://www.osteopathicresearch.org/s/orw/item/1140