Immediate effects and one-week follow-up after neuromuscular electric stimulation alone or combined with stretching on hamstrings extensibility in healthy football players with hamstring shortening

• Author(s): Espejo-Antúnez, Luis ; Carracedo-Rodríguez, María ; Ribeiro, Fernando ; Venâncio, João ; De la Cruz-Torres, Blanca ; Albornoz-Cabello, Manuel
• Date: 2019
• Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/10773/37273
• Origin: RIA - Repositório Institucional da Universidade de Aveiro
• Subject(s): Muscle stretching; Electric current; Technique; Range of movement; Sport
• Document Type: Journal article
• Language: English

Description

To assess the immediate and mid-term (after 7 days) effects of electric current combined with simultaneous muscle stretching (EME technique) per comparison to the isolated use of the same current (without applying simultaneous muscle stretching), over the hamstring extensibility in football players with hamstring shortening, and to estimate the clinical benefit of the interventions according to the muscular extensibility.