Key result
Six weeks of single-leg Roman chair hold training improved single-leg hamstring bridge performance in the previously injured leg by 23.7% compared to 0.3% with the Nordic hamstring curl.
Why the study?
Does single-leg Roman chair hold training improve single-leg hamstring bridge performance compared to Nordic hamstring curl training in Gaelic footballers with previous hamstring injury?
RCT (n=12)
randomized
Does single-leg Roman chair hold training improve single-leg hamstring bridge performance compared to Nordic hamstring curl training in Gaelic footballers with previous hamstring injury?
Single-leg Roman chair hold training is more effective than Nordic hamstring curls for improving hamstring strength-endurance in athletes with prior hamstring injuries.
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Single-leg Roman chair hold may improve post-injury hamstring endurance more than Nordic curl; hypothesis-generating, larger trials needed before practice change.
Macdonald, B, O'Neill, J, Pollock, N, and Van Hooren, B. Single-leg Roman chair hold is more effective than the Nordic hamstring curl in improving hamstring strength-endurance in Gaelic footballers with previous hamstring injury. J Strength Cond Res 33(12): 3302-3308, 2019-Poor hamstring strength-endurance is a risk factor for hamstring injuries. This study investigated the effectiveness of the single-leg Roman hold and Nordic hamstring curl in improving hamstring strength-endurance. Twelve Gaelic footballers (mean ± SD age, height, and mass were 25.17 ± 3.46 years, 179.25 ± 5.88 cm, 85.75 ± 4.75 kg, respectively) with a history of hamstring injury were randomized into 2 groups that performed 6 weeks of either Nordic hamstring curl or single-leg Roman chair hold training. The single-leg hamstring bridge (SLHB) was measured before and after intervention. The Roman chair group showed a very likely moderate magnitude improvement on SLHB performance for both legs (23.7% for the previously injured leg [90% confidence interval 9.6-39.6%] and 16.9% for the noninjured leg [6.2-28.8%]). The Nordic curl group showed a likely trivial change in SLHB performance for the noninjured leg (-2.1% [-6.7 to 2.6%]) and an unclear, but possibly trivial change for the previously injured leg (0.3% [-5.6 to 6.6%]). The Roman chair group improved very likely more with a moderate magnitude in both the noninjured (19.5% [8.0-32.2%]) and the previously injured leg (23.3% [8.5-40.0%]) compared with the Nordic curl group. This study demonstrated that 6-week single-leg Roman chair training substantially improved SLHB performance, suggesting that it may be an efficacious strategy to mitigate hamstring (re-) injury risk. Conversely, 6-week Nordic curl training did not substantially improve SLHB performance, suggesting this may not be the intervention of choice for modifying this risk factor.
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Macdonald et al. (2018) conducted an RCT in Previous hamstring injury (n=12). Single-leg Roman chair hold vs. Nordic hamstring curl was evaluated on Single-leg hamstring bridge (SLHB) performance improvement in the previously injured leg (23.3% difference, 95% CI 8.5-40.0). Six weeks of single-leg Roman chair hold training improved single-leg hamstring bridge performance in the previously injured leg by 23.7% compared to 0.3% with the Nordic hamstring curl.
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