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The influence of osteopathic treatments on the flexibility, technique and performance of juvenile high performance swimmers and high performance triathletes

Journal: Unpublished MSc thesis Wiener Schule für Osteopathie, Date: 2008/09, Pages: 131, type of study: clinical trial

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Keywords:

swimmer [4]
triathletes [1]
osteopathic manipulative treatment [2973]
OMT [2951]
clinical trial [612]
WSO [433]

Abstract:

It seems that osteopathic treatments have significant positive influence on flexibility. All tests and research gave positive results. It was also nice, that the group realized the improvement too and was able to give a proper feedback. Very positive are the results concerning improvement of technique. The biggest improvement was reached surprisingly within the group of triathletes. They where able to improve the length of stroke for 12 cm on the 1000 m freestyle swim. When all is said and done, it seems that osteopathic treatments have a significant positive influence on technique. Concerning the performance tests it is nice to have an improvement being proved statistically with a significant improvement on the 100 m freestyle and 500 m backstroke distances. To be honest I had hoped to have clearer results. It is on the other hand not surprising that they were not able to improve the state of their performances more. Usually a certain amount of training is necessary to improve the exertion factor to have benefit from the longer stroke and it is impossible to improve this within 10 days. I had hoped that the swimmers would be able to swim more economically after the treatments, which would have been more impressive. It seems to be evident that I was not very lucky with the testing profile for performance. I’m personally convinced that the result of the 1000 m freestyle test would have been significant as well, if the overall group would have been able to swim the retest 6.28 seconds slower. Automatically the heart rate would have been lower as well. The improvement of performance was not able to be proven statistically significant on the 100 m backstroke and the 1000 m freestyle distance. In both cases I can cite an improvement of performance without giving statistical proof. It was the aim to swim both tests at the same speed to be able to compare the heart rate of the two tests. On the second test the heart rate should have been lower. Possibly it would have been better to force the swimmers to swim at full speed. But to prove this it would have been necessary to make lactate acid tests. The problem is that the swim test lasted about 2.5 hours. With lactate acid tests it would have lasted approximately twice as much time. From the logistic point of view this is almost impossible to get the swimming pool two times for such a long time because they are completely booked up. What’s more, is that a team would have been necessary to make the blood tests, which would have been very expensive.


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