Kabat Training Program With Elastic Bands for Shoulder in Amateur Swimmers

Universidad Europea de Madrid50 enrolled

Overview

It has been shown that 90% of swimmers experience shoulder pain at some point in their career. During the macrocycle, swimmers present significant alterations in the muscular balance between external and internal rotators of the shoulder: the IR assumes much prominence in strength levels and RE goes progressively weaker. furthermore, all overhead athletes (such as swimmers) present a glenohumeral Internal Rotation Deficit and an increase in External Rotation. The objective of this study is to propose an exercise with an elastic band aimed to strengthening the RE of the shoulder to analyze the effects on the muscular balance between IR and RE. In addition, the effect caused in the limitation of internal rotation is going to be studied

Study Type

INTERVENTIONAL

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

PREVENTION

Masking

DOUBLE

Enrollment

Conditions

Healthy

Interventions

Resistance training with elastic bands in diagonals of PNF

Eligibility

Sex: MALEMin age: 18 YearsMax age: 40 YearsHealthy volunteers:

Medical Language ↔ Plain English

Inclusion Criteria: * Healthy volunteers * Swimmers minimum 2 times per week Exclusion Criteria: * Acute infection * Shoulder pathology * Neer and Hawkins-Kennedy test positive

Locations (1)

Universidad Europea de Madrid

Villaviciosa de Odón, Madrid, Spain

Outcomes

Primary Outcomes

change in ROM external rotation of the shoulder in degrees

Range of motion in external rotation of the shoulder in 90º of abduction measured with goniometry in degrees