Effect of Football on the Musculoskeletal System and Hormonal System

NCT ID: NCT04839172

Last Updated: 2022-03-09

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: COMPLETED
• Total Enrollment: 30 participants
• Study Classification: OBSERVATIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2021-07-01
• Study Completion Date: 2021-12-30

Brief Summary

Several studies have shown that football practice regulates bone remodeling, producing an increase of bone mineral density and reducing the risk of fractures. Thus, the aim of this study is to evaluate the effect of football practice on the regulation of bone turnover in Spanish adult football players. Thanks to the collaboration agreement "Aula Endavant" the Villarreal CF participates as a collaborator in this Project. This agreement allows us to use their facilities and to analyze several football players' data.

Detailed Description

Several studies have shown that football practice regulates bone remodeling, producing an increase of bone mineral density and reducing the risk of fractures. These studies are mainly performed in adolescents and there are few results obtained from European adults subjects. Thus, the aim of this study is to evaluate the effect of football practice on the regulation of bone turnover in Spanish adult football players. Secondary objectives include: describing bone mineral density values, evaluating percentage of total lean mass and body fat, describing dietary and physical habits and analyzing blood tests of professional football players. As well as, they include updating the current state of knowledge of the influence of sports on bone. Thanks to the collaboration agreement "Aula Endavant" the Villarreal CF participates as a collaborator in this Project. This agreement allows us to use their facilities and to analyze several football players' data. In addition, different members of the club will directly participate as researchers during the development of this study.

One of the strengths of this study is that the data were obtained from two consecutive seasons of an elite soccer team.

One of the potential limitations that we have faced in this study is that in order to obtain a large sample, it is necessary to analyse the soccers from two consecutive seasons, which makes the study temporarily longer than desired.

Conditions

Regional Body Composition; Cortisol and Testosterone Levels

Study Design

• Observational Model Type: CASE_ONLY
• Study Time Perspective: RETROSPECTIVE

Interventions

Dual-energy X-ray Absorptiometry (DXA) scan

Longitudinal changes in body composition are examined over four consecutive seasons (2017-2018, 2018-2019, 2019-2020, 2020-2021), four times per season in the following stages: start-preseason, start-season, mid-season and end-season.

Intervention Type: DIAGNOSTIC_TEST

Other Intervention Names

Fasting blood samples

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

• male gender
• aged between 18 and 40 years
• who practice soccer for more than 6 hours / week from the age of 10 to the present.

Exclusion Criteria

• play other elite sports than soccer
• play 6 or more hours of recreational sports per week
• smokers
• individuals with chronic cardiovascular diseases, hypo and hyperthyroidism, hypertension, rheumatoid arthritis and osteoarthritis

• Minimum Eligible Age: 18 Years
• Maximum Eligible Age: 40 Years
• Eligible Sex: MALE
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No

Sponsors

Villarreal CF

UNKNOWN

Sponsor Role: collaborator

Cardenal Herrera University

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Isabel Almodóvar Fernández

PhD

Responsibility Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Principal Investigators

Adolfo Muñoz Macho, MD

Role: STUDY_CHAIR

Medical Services of Villarreal CF SAD

Locations

Villarreal CF

Villarreal, Castellón, Spain

Countries

Spain

Other Identifiers

CMOTC

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id