The Importance of Exercise to Prevent Injuries in Athletes

NCT04078256 | Completed

• 1 other identifier: CEIM/HU/2018/29
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 66
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

Introduction: running is one of the most accessible and practiced sports in the world since the 21st century. Unfortunately, the incidence of injuries in the population that practices it is high regardless of experience, although the risk of injury increases in amateur runners. One of the main keys to reduce the incidence of running related injuries may be to improve the ability to reduce the load or impact. For this, there are different strategies such as a gradual increase in the load to run, and exercise within which is muscle strengthening and balance training or proprioception. Objective: to verify the effectiveness of a program of proprioceptive exercises based on the static and dynamic balance for the reduction of lower limb injuries in amateur runners during the competition season.

Conditions

Injury;Sports

Keywords

proprioception; running; prevention; injuries

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• Knee Joint Position Sense (JPS)

  JPSThe JPS is defined as the awareness of the actual position of the limb to quantify proprioception.The method for measuring JPS is to place the joint at a specific target angle and then, after the limb has been moved back to the starting angle, the subject is asked to actively or passively reproduce the target angle. The outcome of the measurement is the absolute error (AE), which is the difference between the true target angle and the reproduced angle

  Change from Baseline Joint Position Sense Pressure at 8 weeks

Secondary Outcomes (2)

• The Y Balance Test (YBT)

  Change from Baseline dynamic balance at 8 weeks

• The countermovement jump (CMJ)

  Change from Baseline jump height at 8 weeks

Study Arms (2)

Experimental group

EXPERIMENTAL

Group will carry out the proprioceptive exercise program during 8 weeks at the begining of the season

Other: Proprioceptive exercise program

Control group

PLACEBO COMPARATOR

Control group will continue with their usual training routine

Other: Usual training routine

Interventions

Proprioceptive exercise program OTHER

Group A will carry out two sessions of proprioceptive training per week, in a total of 8 weeks, during the pre-season period (September-October). Each session will last approximately 30 minutes and will include 6 exercises. The execution of the exercises will be supervised by a physiotherapist and a national trainer of athletics.

Experimental group

Usual training routine OTHER

The subjects of the control group (group B) will be informed so that they do not include any change in their usual training routine.

Control group

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 18 Years - 70 Years
• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Age Groups: Adult (18-64), Older Adult (65+)

You may qualify if:

• Weekly training of at least 15 kilometers.
• At least practice running 6 months for 1-3 times a week.

You may not qualify if:

• To have some type of lower limb or lower back injury at present or in the last 6 months.
• Having undergone surgery for any back or lower limb injury.
• Pregnant.
• Neural dysfunction / disability.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• University of Alcala: lead

Study Sites (1)

Grupo Fisioterapia y Dolor

Alcalá de Henares, Madrid, 28871, Spain

Location

MeSH Terms

Conditions

Athletic Injuries; Wounds and Injuries

Study Officials

• Tomas Gallego-Izquierdo, Dr.

  Alcala University

  STUDY CHAIR

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: RANDOMIZED
• Masking: DOUBLE
• Who Masked: PARTICIPANT, OUTCOMES ASSESSOR
• Purpose: TREATMENT
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
• PI Title: Principal Investigator

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: August 30, 2019
• First Posted: September 6, 2019
• Study Start: October 1, 2019
• Primary Completion: January 25, 2020
• Study Completion: March 10, 2020
• Last Updated: May 26, 2020

Record last verified: 2020-05

Locations

ES (1)