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Preventing Knee Injuries in Adolescent Female Football Players

NCT00894595 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 4564

Last updated 2011-01-04

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

Football-related knee injuries are common and especially the anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injury constitute a serious problem in football regardless of the playing level. The purpose of this study is to conduct a randomized controlled trial evaluating the effect of a training program designed to prevent acute knee injury in female adolescent football players.

The investigators' hypotheses are:

1. a preventive training program reduces the incidence of ACL injury, and
2. a high match frequency and match play at senior level increase the risk of ACL injury.

Conditions

  • Knee Injury

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Knäkontroll, SISU Idrottsböcker©, Sweden, 2005

The preventive program (Knäkontroll, SISU Idrottsböcker©, Sweden, 2005) consists of six exercises focusing on knee control and core stability and is performed during the warm-up at two training sessions per week throughout the 2009 competitive season.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Swedish Football Association

    collaborator UNKNOWN

  • Folksam

    collaborator OTHER

  • Swedish National Centre for Research in Sports

    collaborator UNKNOWN

  • Region Skane

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Markus Waldén, MD, PhD · Linkoeping University

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
13 Years
Max Age
17 Years
Sex
FEMALE
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2008-08-31
Primary Completion
2010-10-31
Completion
2010-10-31

Countries

  • Sweden

Study Locations

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