The Importance of Exercise to Prevent Injuries in Athletes

NCT ID: NCT04078256

Last Updated: 2020-05-26

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: COMPLETED
• Clinical Phase: NA
• Total Enrollment: 66 participants
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2019-10-01
• Study Completion Date: 2020-03-10

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.

Detailed Description

Methodology: 66 amateur runners, after simple size calculation, will be randomized into two groups. Experimental group will carry out the proprioceptive exercise program during 8 weeks at the begining of the season and control group will continue with their usual training routine. The main variable running related injury will be collected weekly during the follow-up.

Results: When all the data needed for the study has been collected, researchers gathers results and exports them for statistical interpretation.

Conditions

Injury;Sports

Study Design

• Allocation Method: RANDOMIZED
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Primary Study Purpose: TREATMENT
• Blinding Strategy: DOUBLE

Study Groups

Experimental group

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

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

Proprioceptive exercise program

Intervention Type: 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.

Control group

Control group will continue with their usual training routine

Group Type: PLACEBO_COMPARATOR

Usual training routine

Intervention Type: 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.

Interventions

Proprioceptive exercise program

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.

Intervention Type: OTHER

Usual training routine

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

Intervention Type: OTHER

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

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

Exclusion Criteria

• 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.

• Minimum Eligible Age: 18 Years
• Maximum Eligible Age: 70 Years
• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes

Sponsors

University of Alcala

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Prof. Dr. Daniel Pecos Martín

Principal Investigator

Responsibility Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Principal Investigators

Tomas Gallego-Izquierdo, Dr.

Role: STUDY_CHAIR

Alcala University

Locations

Grupo Fisioterapia y Dolor

Alcalá de Henares, Madrid, Spain

Countries

Spain

Other Identifiers

CEIM/HU/2018/29

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id