Enquête sur le stretching: Appels de sujet

Voici un appel lancé pour recruter des sujets afin de participer à une étude internationale sur l'impact du stretching sur les blessures musculaires.

Dear colleagues and friends,
I am writing to ask for your assistance with a major research project examining effects of stretching before and after physical activity.

We are now recruiting people to participate in a large internet-based trial. The trial will determine whether stretching before and after physical activity reduces muscle soreness, reduces risk of injury, and makes people feel "looser" when they exercise. People who are interested in participating can visit the trial web site (http://stretchingstudy.nokc.no/), where they are asked a series of screening questions. If they are eligible to participate they are allocated to either a stretch group or a control group that does not stretch, and they are asked to either stretch or not stretch before and after physical activity for the next 12 weeks. Each week participants are sent an email message reminding them to visit the trial web site and enter details about whether they have experienced an injury, how much muscle soreness they have, and so on. More details of the study are available at the trial we site, and at the Australian and New Zealand Clinical Trials Register (http://www.anzctr.org.au/).

I am asking for your assistance in two ways.

First, please consider participating in the study yourself. You are eligible to participate if you usually engage in some sort of exercise or vigorous physical activity at least once per week, if you are prepared to either stretch or not sretch before and after physical activity for a 12 week period, and if you satisfy some other criteria, such as having access to the internet, and regularly access your email. If you are interested in participating please visit the trial web site at http://stretchingstudy.nokc.no/

Second, please send this message to everyone you know - friends, relatives and work colleagues - and ask them to forward the message on to everyone they know too. The trial is open to everyone who satisfies the inclusion criteria, regardless of what country they live in, so if you have friends, relatives or colleagues in other other countries send the message to them as well. (Participants must, however, be able to read and write English or Norwegian.) The success of the project will rely on having an adequate number of participants, so we are relying on friends and colleagues to get the word out! People interested in participating in the study should visit http://stretchingstudy.nokc.no/

Please send queries to stretch@health.usyd.edu.au, rather than to my personal email address.

Thank you for your crucial assistance with this research.

Regards,

Rob Herbert

Dr Rob Herbert
NHMRC Senior Research Fellow
Associate Professor, Discipline of Physiotherapy
Director, Centre for Evidence-Based Physiotherapy
University of Sydney
+612 9351 9380, stretch@health.usyd.edu.au