Influência da automassagem miofascial sobre o controle postural dinâmico e stiffness vertical nos membros inferiores de indivíduos saudáveis

Abstract

Fascia is a tissue that, when associated with muscle, exerts, among other functions, that of force transmission and energy storage, at inter and intramuscular levels. These myofascial properties can be measured from Stiffness. This measure is related to the physiological and biomechanical mechanism of trauma protection. In addition, myofascial tissue plays an important role in proprioception, strength and coordination. When the myofascial tissue loses flexibility the movement becomes more restricted, causing an increase in tension in specific regions of the body, hindering the dynamic control of movement and stiffness. To seek improvement of tissue integrity, myofascial self-massage can be an important tool. However, there is no consensus in the literature about the effects of self-massage myofascial on stiffness and dynamic postural control. Therefore, the objective of the present study was to verify the effect of myofascial self-massage (AMM) on dynamic postural control and stifness. The study included men between the ages of 18 and 40 years, physically active and who had no contact with the AMM technique. The kinetic and kinematic approach of the movement was used to evaluate stiffness and dynamic postural control. The results indicate that no changes were found in stiffness of lower limbs between the pre and post moments in both groups. There were improvements of the dynamic postural control in the PM direction for both lower limbs and in the PL direction for the right lower limb. These findings demonstrate that the postural control, measured by the SEBT, improved after the AMM technique. In addition, the analyzed weight discharge suggests that the technique, even applied in people with no experience, can be performed homogeneously.