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The aim of the study is to compare the immediate effects of stretching, massage and stretching, hot application and stretching exercises applied on the range of motion of short hamstring muscle group on knee joint. Sixty volunteers were included in the study: age; 21.73 ± 1.5 years, height; 176 ± 5.1 cm, body weight; 73.23 ± 9.86 kg and (Body Mass Index) BMI; 23.38 ± 2.86 kg / m². The volunteers were randomly divided into 3 groups of 20 people. The 1st group was stretched by 3*30 seconds with a rest period of only 10 seconds, the 2nd group was 9-12 minutes of classical massage followed by stretching and 3rd group was applied 20 minutes hot-pack afterwards stretching. Measurements of hamstring flexibilites were recorded before and immediately after interventions. Active Knee Extension (AKE) test was used to measure hamstring flexibilty. There was no statistically significant difference between groups in terms of AKE-first measurement averages. Statistically significant differences were found in terms of AKE-end parameters of the groups. When these differences were examined, it was determined that hot-pack before stretching and massage before stretching were positive effects on increasing of stretching performance, and it was found that the effect size of the hot-pack was higher than those of the two interventions. In conclusion, this study showed that only the static stretching and stretching-induced interventions were effective in increasing the hamstring muscle length.

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