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Results: The stretching intervention did not significantly change any of the 3 parameters describing the torque-angle curves of the ankle in either knee position.
To complete preliminary analysis regarding the effects joint mobilization timing during a 4-week calf stretching intervention on clinician-oriented and patient-oriented outcomes in individuals with chronic ankle instability (CAI).
To compare the effects of an acute stretching intervention on knee extension range of motion, passive resistive torque and stiffness in subjects with osteoarthritis of the knee, and to compare these variables with subjects without osteoarthritis.
Participants then performed their allocated stretching intervention.
Three studies that performed a stretching intervention were included in the last meta-analysis [ 17, 18, 46].
Beckett et al. (2009) indicated that the repeated sprint ability was negatively affected by an interim static stretching intervention with a total duration of ~4 min.
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Neither the subjects nor investigator were blinded to the stretching interventions performed.
13 Reid and McNair found that elderly people with and without arthritis of the knee were able to show sustained improvements in joint range of motion with stretching interventions.
Two hundred and one elderly participants with very mild to mild dementia will be screened and randomized into the following groups: (i) dance movement based intervention, (ii) stretching and exercise intervention and (iii) no intervention waitlist-control group.
Insulin sensitization may also be beneficial, with both pioglitazone and rosiglitazone suggesting benefit, and a 6-month intensive aerobic (versus stretching) exercise intervention enhanced cognition.
However, in this study even the non-stretching control group showed a significant decrease in CMJ height, indicating that the stretch intervention might not be the causal reason for the decrease.
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