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132 Neuromuscular responses of the hamstring and trunk muscles during unanticipated trunk perturbations
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  1. Ayako Higashihara1,
  2. Jurdan Mendiguchia2,
  3. Takashi Ono3,
  4. Yasuharu Nagano4,
  5. Shogo Sasaki5,
  6. Shinshiro Mineta6,7,
  7. Norikazu Hirose8
  1. 1Institute of Physical Education, Keio University, Kanagawa, Japan
  2. 2Department of Physical Therapy, Zentrum Rehabilitation and Performance Center, Pamplona, Spain
  3. 3Kitasato University College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Kanagawa, Japan
  4. 4Japan Women’s College of Physical Education, Department of Sports Wellness Sciences, Tokyo, Japan
  5. 5Faculty of Health Sciences, Tokyo Ariake University of Medical and Health Sciences, Tokyo, Japan
  6. 6Graduate school of Sport and Exercise Sciences, Osaka University of Health and Sport Sciences, Osaka, Japan
  7. 7The Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Tokyo, Japan
  8. 8Faculty of Sport Sciences, Waseda University, Saitama, Japan

Abstract

Background Trunk movement is considered to be involved in lower extremity injuries. Hamstring strain injuries often occur when movements are unanticipatedly perturbed by the opponents.

Objective To examine the neuromuscular responses of the hamstring and trunk muscles during unanticipated trunk perturbations in the athletes with and without a history of hamstring strain injury.

Design Descriptive laboratory study.

Setting College athletes.

Participants Male college athletes were recruited, 11 with a history of unilateral hamstring strain injury and 10 without prior injury.

Assessment In the kneeling position, the participants wore a chest harness attached to a cable that was pulled backward as a resisting force. They were instructed to resist the force isometrically and keep their initial position as possible as they could when the perturbations were applied. The force was released with a cue (CUE) and without cue (NoCUE). Trunk acceleration, three-dimensional kinematic data, and surface electromyography (EMG) signals of the erector spinae, internal oblique, gluteus maximus, biceps femoris, and semitendinosus muscles were measured.

Main Outcome Measurements (1) Maximum trunk acceleration; (2) angular displacement of the trunk, pelvis, hip, and knee; (3) onset latency; (4) EMG activation in the 50-ms window before the perturbation; and (5) EMG activation in the 100ms after the perturbation.

Results The maximum trunk acceleration and displacement were significantly greater during the NoCUE than during the CUE in both groups (p<0.05). The injured group demonstrated significantly delayed onset of the gluteus maximus and erector spinae muscles during the NoCUE compared with the CUE (p<0.05), while no difference was observed in the uninjured group. There was no difference in the phasic EMG activities between groups.

Conclusions Athletes with a history of hamstring strain injury displayed reduction in the neuromuscular coordination of pelvis and trunk muscles when they controlled the unanticipated trunk movement.

http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bjsports-2021-IOC.123

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