The Effect of Dynamic Stretching and Static Stretching to Muscle performance

Teacher: Rommel Cabasur Thesis Prepared by: Paulo Abrajano Noel Palabrica Dereik Po

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Introduction In todays generation everyone desires to be excellent, and having even the slightest advantage in terms of having better muscle performance means being better than most. Our study is about increasing ones muscle performance simply by apply a certain kind of stretch before performing the exercise. Stretching in itself is very crucial in every sport, it is common knowledge that stretching increases flexibility and range of motion; Static stretching increases range of motion (ROM) and can also decrease musculotendinous stiffness, even during short-duration (530 s) stretches(bandy WD, Irion JM, Briggler M., Phys. Ther. 1997;77:1090-6); Stretching is also effective in enhancing muscle performance and in
preventing and treating injuries (Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise 30: 975-91, 1998)

Background of our study

The hopes for our study is that it can prove that stretching not only prevents injuries or increases flexibility but done correctly it can also increase the muscle performance of a person. A study suggests
that regular stretching improves hamstring power in initially inflexible subjects; however, this study lacked a control group and failed to achieve a statistically significant improvement in subject flexibility (Worrell et al., Journal of Orthopedics and Sports Physical Therapy 20: 154-60, 1994) Stretching is traditionally used as part of a warm-up to increase flexibility or pain-free range of motion (ROM) about a joint in an attempt to promote better performances (Shellock FG, Prentice WE. Sports Med. 1985;2:267278). Warm-up prior to physical activity is a common practice believed to reduce the risk of injury and enhance performance (Safran MR, Garrett WE, Seaber AV, Glisson RR, Ribbeck BM. The role of warm up in muscular injury prevention. Am 1 Sports Med 1988;16: 123-8. ) As students our teachers can only teach us so much about stretching, but when it comes to something very specific such as the effects of stretching on muscle performance we arent really taught much about that, now our study aims to shed some light on this matter very simply put we want to prove how stretching can be a method to better muscle performance.

Significance of the study The significance of our studies may affect the following people: For the researchers Researchers will not only gain new insights on the topic at hand but they will also learn new ways in improving their patients over all performances, as well as specific knowledge on proper stretching. This research will also develop their understanding when it comes to increase muscle performance when performing stretching exercises. For the Physical Therapists students and patients/ clients This study will help PT students decide which form of stretching is best suited when they trying to achieve better muscle performance, this will also help them better understand the concept of warming up and stretching. For patients this will help them better understand the concept of stretching, that it is not just to warm up or increase flexibility but increases muscular performance as well To the future researches This study will help the future researchers gain the knowledge they need to become better health care providers, become better athletes or just increase your knowledge in this field of exercise, they will learn the advantage and disadvantages of using the kind of stretching on specific exercises. Statement of Problem This study aims to determine the best kind of stretching to increase muscle performance during a specific movement (jumping) with 3 specific muscles being tested( stretched) the sub problems are as followed: 1. Which stretch is better for increasing vertical jumping, dynamic or static stretching? 1.1. If dynamic is better how long should we stretch the muscle to have increase muscle performance? 1.2 If static is the better form of stretching how long should we maintain the stretch? 2. How big of a difference is made when dynamic stretch, static stretch and no stretching is done 2.1 How much higher can we jump when we do dynamic stretching? 2.2 do static stretching increase jump height more than dynamic stretching?

2.3 How much is the persons jump height if they do not stretch. Would it be close to the value of static stretching or dynamic stretching?

Hypothesis of the study 1. Dynamic stretching is the most suited form of stretching to increase muscle performance. 2. Static stretching at a certain amount of time will yield the same results as that of dynamic stretching, and will not decrease muscle performance 3. Will not stretching yield result close to or equal to that of static or dynamic stretching 4. Static stretching held for certain amount of time will decrease muscular performance greatly. 5. Can stretching increase or better muscle performance?

Scope and limitation of study We will be performing these tests on one specific area of the body namely the lower extremity; with only one action, vertical jump, we will be stretching 3 specific muscles the quads, iliopsoas and gastrocnemius. We will be acquiring 8 patients from athletes to non athlete they will surveyed the same way; we will be using tape measures, rules and other measuring devices. We will let the patient perform dynamic stretching patient will perform stretching exercises for an amount of time and on each time their jump height will be measured after patient has rested for an amount of time they will perform static stretching for 30, 60 and 90 seconds, and on each time the jump height will be measured lastly patient will perform no stretching than jump height will be taken.