Prevention of Patellar and Achilles Tendinopathies in Youth Basketball

NCT04363398 | Completed

• 1 other identifier: REB16-0864
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 441
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

This study seeks to determine the prevalence of knee and ankle tendinopathies in youth basketball players, as well as determine the efficacy of a Basketball specific Neuromuscular training warm-up in reducing injuries.

Conditions

Injury, Knee; Injury, Ankle; Tendinopathy; Sports Injuries in Children

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (2)

• Basketball injuries

  To effectively capture all injuries (i.e., acute and overuse/chronic injuries), an "all-complaint" injury definition will be adopted through year 1 and year 2 of study. An injury is any physical complaint, including any pain, ache, joint instability, stiffness or any other complaint resulting from participating in basketball-related sessions, including but irrespective of the need for medical attention (seeking care from a trainer or medical practitioner) or time-loss (inability to complete a basketball-related session, or participate in one or more days after the onset of injury) from basketball-related activities. Further, an injury is identified as acute if its onset was sudden and clearly associated with an identifiable event and overuse if its onset, whether gradual or sudden, was unidentifiable with any event.

  Medical attention injuries daily, additional injuries weekly and a post-season interview at 4 months if needed.

• Weekly Exposure Sheet (WES)

  The duration of time players are exposed to basketball, and the basketball NMT program, will be captured. This will be captured using a previously validated Weekly Exposure Form (WES). This includes start and end time of sport sessions, attendance at those sessions, and reason for non-attendance.

  This will be recorded weekly during the basketball season (average 4 months)

Secondary Outcomes (2)

• Player Questionnaire

  This measure will be assess at baseline (pre-season) and end of the basketball season (average 4 months after baseline)

• Coach Beliefs/Behaviors

  The questionnaire will be administered to team coaches at 4 different time-points - Pre-workshop at baseline, post workshop at baseline, post-season at 4 months, post-season follow-up at 6 months and post-season follow-up at 12 months.

Study Arms (2)

Comprehensive

EXPERIMENTAL

Coaches from schools randomized to the comprehensive follow-up receive a workshop outlining a neuromuscular training program to be used as a warm-up for 10 minutes at the beginning of each basketball practice and game. Throughout the season, a trained research team member will monitor the team weekly for injuries, participation, and adherence, and provide support to the school coaches regarding the warm-up.

Other: Comprehensive Follow-up

Standard

ACTIVE COMPARATOR

Coaches from schools randomized to the standard follow-up receive a workshop outlining a neuromuscular training program to be used as a warm-up for 10 minutes at the beginning of each basketball practice and game. Throughout the season, a research team member will monitor the team weekly for injuries, participation, and adherence, however will not provide support to the school coaches regarding the warm-up.

Other: Standard Follow-up

Interventions

Comprehensive Follow-up OTHER

Trained research staff members will provide weekly support to coaches on the NMT warm-up.

Comprehensive

Standard Follow-up OTHER

Research staff will monitor teams weekly, however no additional support for warm-up will be provided.

Standard

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 11 Years - 18 Years
• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Age Groups: Child (0-17), Adult (18-64)

You may qualify if:

• Plays competitive basketball with School or club

You may not qualify if:

• Injured at baseline

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Sport Injury Prevention Research Centre: lead
• General Electric: collaborator
• National Basketball Association: collaborator

Study Sites (1)

Sport Injury Prevention Research Centre

Calgary, Alberta, T2n1n4, Canada

Location

MeSH Terms

Conditions

Knee Injuries; Ankle Injuries; Tendinopathy

Condition Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Leg Injuries; Wounds and Injuries; Muscular Diseases; Musculoskeletal Diseases; Tendon Injuries

Study Officials

• Carolyn Emery, PT, PhD

  Sport Injury Prevention Research Centre, University of Calgary

  PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: RANDOMIZED
• Masking: DOUBLE
• Who Masked: PARTICIPANT, INVESTIGATOR
• Masking Details: Participants (teachers and students) are not aware of what arm they are randomized to. The primary investigators performing the analysis and overseeing all decisions are blinded to the schools receiving the comprehensive vs standard follow-up.
• Purpose: PREVENTION
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
• PI Title: Professor

Model Details: A Hybrid (effectiveness-implementation) Type 2 RCT design will be conducted. Teams will be randomized into either a comprehensive or standard intervention delivery group.

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: April 27, 2018
• First Posted: April 27, 2020
• Study Start: August 10, 2016
• Primary Completion: July 31, 2018
• Study Completion: July 31, 2019
• Last Updated: April 27, 2020

Record last verified: 2020-04

Data Sharing

• IPD Sharing: Will not share

Locations

CA (1)