Clinical trial NCT02180360: Capoeira Training and Flexibility
Official title: Eight Weeks of Basic Training in Capoeira Increases Flexibility of Beginners in the Sport
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Flexibility
Range of Motion
Keywords: Capoeira training
Range of motion
Flexibility
beginners
Lead sponsor: Universidade Federal do vale do São Francisco
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: University of Pernambuco
name: Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte
First posted: 2014-07-02
Enrollment: 21
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Maximum age (years): 45
Standard ages: ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Primary purpose: TREATMENT

Brief summary: Background: Nowadays, a commonly used sport that helps enhancing physical fitness components, including flexibility, is Capoeira. This modality is defined as an athletic sport composed by an individual attack and defensive system, which was originally created in colonial Brazil. Capoeira is characterized by its main movement, the "ginga", and by other several dodging, unbalancing, traumatizing and acrobatic movements. The literature empirically discusses that Capoeira contributes in general physical fitness by modulating several variables of human movement. Among these variables it is possible to highlight the influence of Capoeira in the amplitude of movement of the practitioner's joints. However, no study with a control group has investigated the alterations in flexibility of beginners using an experimental protocol based exclusively in basic techniques of Capoeira, without applying any usual stretching exercises that are commonly used, independently of the specificity of the sport. Objective: To analyze the effects of eight weeks of basic training in Capoeira on the flexibility of beginners in the sport. Methods: Twenty-one individuals, divided in two groups \[Capoeira, n=13; 26.1±7.2 years; 22.7±2.7 kg.m2(-1) and Control, n=8; 27.1±0.5 years; 24.3±3.3 kg.m2(-1)\] participated in the study. The Capoeira group performed eight weeks of basic training (two sessions per week lasting 60 minutes each). The experimental protocol used was exclusively based in basic techniques of a programmed Capoeira training system. Before and after the intervention measurements were performed aiming to analyze: trunk flexion flexibility, through a sit-and-reach test using a Wells' Bench (WBtf); and passive tension (PThf) and maximum amplitude of hip flexion (MAhf) through goniometry. The hypothesis of this study is that the group Capoeira (beginners) will increase the linear and angular flexibility after eight weeks of basic training in the sport.


Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

1. All participants had at least a 24 month period without practicing Capoeira;
2. To participate in at least 80% of the experimental sessions (Capoeira group); 4) Not having any kind of bone, muscle or joint impairment that would preclude participating in the study and performing the flexibility evaluations before and after the intervention;
3. Not participating in another physical activity program during the intervention and; 4) Not having any kind of heart disease.

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   Exclusion Criteria:

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Primary outcomes:
measure: Trunk flexion flexibility by sit-and-reach test using a Wells' Bench (WBtf - cm); Passive tension (PThf - angle) and Maximum amplitude of hip flexion (MAhf - angle) using goniometry.
timeFrame: Pre-training (Week zero) in Capoeira training group and Control group
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Trunk flexion flexibility by sit-and-reach test using a Wells' Bench (WBtf - cm); Passive tension (PThf - angle) and Maximum amplitude of hip flexion (MAhf - angle) using goniometry.
timeFrame: Post-training (after eight weeks) in After eight weeks of Capoeira training group and Control group
measure: Trunk flexion flexibility by sit-and-reach test using a Wells' Bench (WBtf - cm); Passive tension (PThf - angle) and Maximum amplitude of hip flexion (MAhf - angle) using goniometry.
timeFrame: Comparison of pre (0 week) vs. post-training (eight weeks) measures
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Petrolina
country: Brazil
facility: Universidade Federal do Vale do São Francisco
state: Pernambuco
Study officials:
affiliation: Universidade Federal do vale do São Francisco
name: Sérgio R Moreira, PhD
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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