Predictors of Muscle Injury Risk in Non-professional Football Players

NCT ID: NCT06425809

Last Updated: 2025-03-26

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: COMPLETED
• Total Enrollment: 156 participants
• Study Classification: OBSERVATIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2024-05-20
• Study Completion Date: 2024-07-01

Brief Summary

Background. Football accounts for 30% of all sports injuries. Muscle injuries in football are the most common non-traumatic and non-contact injuries. A comprehensive approach to injury prevention must consider the design of the footwear and the environmental conditions in which the match is played.

Objective. To assess the risk of injury as a function of footwear and field of play in non-professional football players and to identify the best predictive model of muscle injury in these athletes.

Method. Ambispective cohort study. Ninety-seven players will be recruited. The primary variable will be the number of lower limb muscle injuries in the last 3 seasons. Secondary and modifying variables will be: age, body mass index, boot type, pitch turf, training load and field position. Potential confounding variables will be motivation for choice of footwear, date of muscle injuries, time playing in the category and presence in the starting team. The analysis will calculate the risk of adverse effects in these patients and assess the influence of confounders and trend analysis on the primary variable, stratified by potential confounders.

Expected outcomes. To calculate the risk of muscle injury as a function of anthropometric variables, and footwear and turf type. To identify the predictive model of muscle injuries in football players.

Conditions

Sport Injury

Study Design

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

Study Groups

Observational group

Data collection will take place between May and June 2024. This will be done through a self-questionnaire format with closed questions where no data will be collected that allow the identification of the subject (name, surname, or national identity document).

The coding of the data collected and its analysis will be carried out under the supervision of the principal investigator, in accordance with current data protection regulations, scrupulously complying with the anonymous collection of clinical data, and without collecting any data that could allow the identification of the patients whose data are collected.

Observation

Intervention Type: OTHER

The data collection will be carried out by the two researchers, in accordance with current data protection regulations, scrupulously complying with the anonymous collection of clinical data, and without collecting any data that could allow the identification of the athletes whose data are collected. The members of the research group will not have access to personal data that could facilitate the identity of any person on the basis of the data collected. The data collected in this study, anonymised from the outset, will be exported to an Excel file. Access to the Excel file will require password access and will be managed from a computer of the University of Oviedo (Department of Surgery and Medical-Surgical Specialities).

Interventions

Observation

The data collection will be carried out by the two researchers, in accordance with current data protection regulations, scrupulously complying with the anonymous collection of clinical data, and without collecting any data that could allow the identification of the athletes whose data are collected. The members of the research group will not have access to personal data that could facilitate the identity of any person on the basis of the data collected. The data collected in this study, anonymised from the outset, will be exported to an Excel file. Access to the Excel file will require password access and will be managed from a computer of the University of Oviedo (Department of Surgery and Medical-Surgical Specialities).

Intervention Type: OTHER

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

• Federated, non-professional football players.
• Competing in category 3 RFEF (group 2).
• Who compete in the territorial delimitation of the Principality of Asturias.
• Subjects who have not undergone previous musculoskeletal surgery in the seasons under study.
• Who were federated at least one year before the study period.

Exclusion Criteria

• Players who have not participated in competition, during the seasons under study, for a period of more than 6 months due to a musculoskeletal injury.

• Minimum Eligible Age: 18 Years
• Maximum Eligible Age: 30 Years
• Eligible Sex: MALE
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No

Sponsors

University of Oviedo

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Ruben Cuesta Barriuso

Principal Investigator

Responsibility Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Locations

University of Oviedo

Oviedo, Principality of Asturias, Spain

Countries

Spain

Other Identifiers

Pred-Fut

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id