Avaliação da flexibilidade do quadril em atletas de jiu-jitsu

Abstract

Flexibility is important for athletes to improve movement quality, improve their technical skills, achieve greater range of motion, and prevent risks of joint injuries to stabilize the hip in their greater range of motion. The objective of this study is to evaluate the degree of hip flexibility in Jiu-Jitsu athletes. Quantitative, descriptive and exploratory research with transversal bias. The sample consisted of 46 men, between 18 and 45 years of age, attending a gymnasium in the city of Caxias do Sul, located in the State of Rio Grande do Sul. Flexiteste was used to verify the flexibility of the participants. For the statistical treatment, it was used the IBM ® SSPS Statistics 21.0 software and the Microsoft Excel program where descriptive measures (means, standard deviation, frequencies and percentages) were calculated and the ANOVA test was performed to compare paired sample means. Results: Through data analysis, it was found that only three of the assessments of flexibility in the athletes were statistically significant. Only in hip abduction, lateral flexion of left and right trunk were significant results, the rest did not have much alteration in the comparison of the results. Conclusion: With the data collected, we can conclude that Jiu-Jitsu fighters do not acquire complete hip joint flexibility with only sport training, so athletes need to seek specific training to reach good levels and improve performance during fights (sic).