Effect of Muscular Imbalance Between Flexors and Extensors of the Fingers and Wrist on Upper Limb Injuries in Climbers

NCT ID: NCT06361654

Last Updated: 2024-04-15

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: RECRUITING
• Total Enrollment: 47 participants
• Study Classification: OBSERVATIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2024-03-25
• Study Completion Date: 2025-09-01

Brief Summary

Climbing is a booming sport with an increasing number of participants. When practicing this sport, there is a muscular imbalance between the flexor and extensor systems (especially in the fingers), with the flexors of the fingers exerting greater force than the extensors. In addition, upper limb injuries, particularly the fingers, are very common.

The study will be carried out on club-licensed climbers, as they are better supervised. They will be recruited through requests sent to various clubs. The measurements will be taken during different climbing sessions, after the warm-up.

The study will include measurements on different climbers. Informed consent and personal data will be collected from the climbers before the measurements are taken. The strength values of the flexors and extensors of the fingers and wrist will be measured using a dynamometer. The climbers will then continue their usual training for 1 year. For 1 year after the measurements, the climbers will be contacted every month by telephone to collect the different injuries they may have suffered in relation to climbing, as well as the number of hours they have spent climbing in the past month. After 1 year, the annual number of hours of climbing and the annual number of injuries can be calculated for each climber. Injury is defined as any medically diagnosed lesion of the musculoskeletal system of the upper limb or pain that prevents the practice of a sport whose aetiology is climbing. These data are used to calculate the "athlete exposure" (A-E), i.e. the incidence of injury per 1000 hours of practice. As the study population is large, this allows for variations in exposure between subjects.

Conditions

Climber

Study Design

• Observational Model Type: COHORT
• Study Time Perspective: PROSPECTIVE

Interventions

The strength values of the flexors and extensors of the fingers and wrist will be measured using a dynamometer

The measurements will be taken during different climbing sessions, after the warm-up.

The study will include measurements on different climbers. Informed consent and personal data will be collected from the climbers before the measurements are taken. The strength values of the flexors and extensors of the fingers and wrist will be measured using a dynamometer.

Intervention Type: OTHER

Eligibility Criteria

Exclusion Criteria

• Declaration of a medically diagnosed upper limb injury at the time of testing;
• Presence of any pathology that prevents climbing or taking finger or wrist measurements;
• Volunteers for whom it is impossible to collect data by telephone.

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

Sponsors

University Hospital, Rouen

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Responsibility Role: SPONSOR

Locations

Rouen, University Hospital

Rouen, Normandy, France

Site Status: RECRUITING

Countries

France

Central Contacts

Timothée GILLOT, PhD

Role: CONTACT

timothee.gillot@chu-rouen.fr

0232880671 ext. +33

deborah lebedieff

Role: CONTACT

deborah.lebedieff@chu-rouen.fr

Facility Contacts

timothee gillot, phd

Role: primary

timothee.gillot@chu-rouen.fr

0232880671 ext. +33

Other Identifiers

2023/0135/OB

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id