Assignment task: Healthcare Evidence Based Practice and Research
Ms. Windsor, a 20 year old African American woman who plays soccer as a member of a college team reports to your sports medicine clinic where you work as a physical therapist. She is there to receive preventive care for anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injury, which is a common problem for female athletes. Among sports medicine specialists you have heard considerable debate about the value of hamstring stretching for purposes of reducing injuries associated with stop-jump and cutting tasks. Before seeing Ms. Windsor you perform a search of the literature to identify studies that examined the effects of hamstring stretching to prevent ACL injury among adult female athletes.
You locate the following article:
Ruan M, Zhang Q, Wu X. Acute effects of static stretching of hamstring on performance and anterior cruciate ligament injury risk during stop-jump and cutting tasks in female athletes. J Strength Cond Res. 2017;31(5):1241-1250.
Answer the following questions about the article.
Q1. What research paradigm was represented by the study?
Q2. What style of research was performed?
Q3. How many comparisons were made (was there one treatment only with no comparison, treatment compared with control, more than one treatment compared with control, etc.)?
Q4. What was the sample size?
Q5. What was the sampling frame?
Q6. What measure(s) was/were used to assess the effect of treatment?
Q7. Make a decision about recommending the use of statistic hamstring stretching with Ms. Windsor and provide brief explanation you would share with your colleagues regarding the case