PREVALENCE OF HAMSTRING TIGHTNESS DUE TO EMOTIONAL SIGNIFICANCE IN BODYBUILDERS OF ISLAMABAD

Abstract

Hamstring tightness is not unusual problem in humans because of their running patterns or posturing and shortage of sports. The bodybuilders who have low probabilities of emotional distress they have lower hamstring tightness that lower the dangers for musculoskeletal muscle injuries. Muscle tightness can also cause by emotional traumatic experiences happened in past. Human body collect these traumas in mind and create tension. Stressful events in life cause emotional disturbance which cause tension in mind and body also. The purpose of the study is to determine the prevalence of hamstring tightness in bodybuilders of Islamabad who got emotional stress. This study became executed as cross-sectional examine in Islamabad. The variety of pattern become 377 bodybuilders in Islamabad. From the entire wide variety of 377 bodybuilder 82% of the candidate had been determined as having occurrence of hamstring tightness from which 3.01% had been mendacity in underweight, 82% have been every day, 10% have been approximately 25 BMI and 4.5% have been above 30 BMI with extra obese. The least hamstring tightness changed into tested in bodybuilders in Islamabad. Standardized equipment have been used with .99 reliability, musculoskeletal fitness questionnaire with .90 reliability and emotional scale with .92 reliability. Only the better weight humans had better tendency of hamstring tightness who had good BMI and lower stress by releasing old tensions.

Keywords: emotions, hamstring tightness, musculoskeletal fitness, lower extremity