Gymnasts for years have struggled to find relief for their wrist pain during a normal day at practice. This research study focuses on female adolescent athletes who have acute pain in their wrists ranging from mild to moderate pain. Increasing range of motion in the wrist along with increasing grip strength has shown to decrease overall wrist pain in acute scaphoid lunate ligament tears. The study will put gymnast through a 12-week intervention focusing strengthening grip strength and range of motion. The study hypothesizes that by improving both range of motions and grip strength will alleviate pain in female adolescent gymnast. Approximately 25% of all sports-related injuries include the wrist (Avery, Rodner, & Edgar, 2016). On average, 82% of gymnasts who have trained every week since they were six years old have experienced wrist pain during their gymnastics career (Guerra, et al., 2016). A gymnast can have up to 16 times their body weight on their bones, ligaments, tendons, and joints during a typical training session (Linderman, 2016). There is a 98% chance of injury in a competitive gymnast`s career (Hassmannová, Pavlu, & Nováková, 2019). When gymnasts are participating in gymnastics, the wrist requires an extensive amount of dorsiflexion in order to meet the demands of the skills they are performing (Farana, et al. 2016). The muscles that are associated with grip strength have a large impact on the stability of the bones in the wrist. Wrist flexor muscles are highly task-dependent with a large role in producing handgrip and wrist flexion forces and serve a primary role of wrist stabilization in balancing the forces produced by wrist flexors (Forman, Forman, Robathan, & Holmes, 2019). This research study was designed after a case study done by Hincapie (2016). Participants will begin by completing a Par-Q and a medical history to provide prescreening for each individual. The participants will be under the legal age for consent they will need their parents to fill out a parental inform and consent form to let them participate in the study. Once a parental inform and consent form is completed the athlete will then need to complete an informed consent form before participating in the study. Participants: The participants age will be 9-14 years of age. They will be gymnasts that practice 12-24 hours a week in an annual schedule. https://digitalcommons.gardner-webb.edu/exercise-science-research-proposal-posters/7
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