Pain is a sensation felt in one or more parts of the body, and it is a bad feeling that bothers people. Every person who feels pain learns about pain early in life through experiences with injury. In recent years, chronic pain has begun to be accepted as a disease rather than a symptom. Therefore, pain does not always mean tissue damage. Although scientific studies have made rapid progress in our perspective on chronic pain, the mechanisms of pain have not yet been fully explained. Though many things have been tried, the continuation of pain and the inability to fully explain the pain mechanisms have increased the interest in complementary medicine applications. It has been shown that trigger points accompany many musculoskeletal pathologies within the concept of central sensitization, which has an important role in the pathogenesis of chronic pain. Dry needling therapy in trigger point therapy is often used as a minimally invasive complementary medicine option to manage pain. In this study, information about pain was examined in the light of current literature. We aimed to review the effects of dry needling therapy on the musculoskeletal system in chronic pain disease groups from a different and up-to-date perspective. After examining the literature and the concept of chronic pain and dry needling, the following conclusion was reached; When the effectiveness of dry needling is examined in chronic painful disease groups in the musculoskeletal system, dry needling, which is a minimally invasive method, is effective, but more studies are needed.
The aim of this study was to investigate the factors that increase the risk of injury in adolescent basketball players. Materials and Methods: A total of 43 volunteer basketball players with a mean age of 12.7 ± 1.5 years participated in the study. The balance of the participants was evaluated by means of the Y-Balance balance test, trunk muscles endurance by static and dynamic curl-up and prone plank tests. Q angles, hip external and internal rotations, abduction degrees were measured with goniometer. Functional movement screen test for injury risk factor detection was applied. Regression analysis was used to analyse the data. Result: Participants were divided into two groups as those with functional movement screen total score of 14 or less and those with a score more than 14. Assessing the differences between the two groups, Y-balance for anterior right (p=0.046), posterolateral left (p=0.021) and posterolateral right (p=0.040); prone plank time (p=0.005) and age (p=0.023) were found statistically significantly different. According to the results of the regression analysis, higher age (p=0.028), increased prone plank time (p=0.010), increase in the reach of the posterolateral component of the Y-Balance (right p=0.049; left p=0.030) reduce the injury risk. Effect of other factors on injury risk were not determined (p> 0.05). Conclusion: Lower age in adolescent basketball players was associated with higher injury risk. High core endurance and high posterolateral extension distance, which is one of the determining parameters of dynamic balance, appeared to lower the injury risk.
Amaç: Futsal oyuncularının cinsiyete ve yaralanma geçmişlerine göre fonksiyonel hareket, denge, sıçrama ve esneklik performanslarının karşılaştırılması amaçlanmıştır. Gereç ve Yöntemler: Bu çalışmaya Pamukkale Üniversitesi futsal takımında oynayan 17 kadın ve 18 erkek toplam 35 gönüllü futsal oyuncusu katılmıştır. Sporcularda fonksiyonel hareket; fonksiyonel hareket taraması testi, denge; Y denge testi, sıçrama performansı tek ayak durarak uzun atlama ve dikey sıçrama testleri, esneklik ise kapalı kinetik dorsifleksiyon ROM testi ile değerlendirilmiştir. Bulgular: Sporcuların fonksiyonel hareket taraması testi skorları ve tüm performans parametreleri arasında yaralanma geçmişine göre anlamlı bir fark olmadığı görülmüştür (p>0,05). Sporcuların sıçrama değerleri, Y denge testinin her iki ekstremite posteromedial ve posterolateral değerlerinde, sıçrama performansları ve gövde stabilite şınavı test sonucunda erkekler lehine, esneklik kapalı kinetik dorsifleksiyon açısında ise kadınlar lehine anlamlı bir fark olduğu tespit edilmiştir (p<0,05). Sonuç: Futsal oyuncularında yaralanma hikayesi sporcuların fonksiyonel hareket, dinamik denge, sıçrama performansını etkilememektedir. Ayrıca cinsiyet, dinamik dengenin bazı parametreleri, esneklik, kor (çekirdek) kuvveti ve sıçrama performansını etkileyen önemli bir faktördür.
Objective: This study aimed to examine the acute effect of dry cupping therapy applied to the hamstring muscle in footballers on flexibility, jumping, strength and range of motion.Materials and Methods: 25 male athletes with an average age of 18.80 ± 0.41 in the U-19 football team, one of the infrastructure teams of Yukatel Denizlispor club, voluntarily participated in this study. Soccer players first evaluated flexibility, range of motion, jumping and strength tests bilaterally. All athletes were administered a 10-minute dry cupping along the muscle bilaterally to the hamstring muscle after their initial change. Then all initial assessments were repeated and data recorded.Results: Dry cupping therapy was found to have a statistically significant effect on the flexibility parameter of the hamstring muscle and bilateral evaluated knee flexion and hip extension range of motion (p>0.05). Dry cupping therapy was found to have no statistically significant effect on the strength parameters of knee flexion and hip extension, which were evaluated bilaterally and jumping parameters (p>0.05).Conclusion: We concluded that, dry cupping therapy is a useful method as a non-invasive, easy-to-apply and economical complementary medicine application to increase flexibility and range of motion parameters in football players.
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