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Injury Incidence in Professional Soccer

NCT01044953 · Status: COMPLETED · Type: OBSERVATIONAL · Enrollment: 240

Last updated 2011-01-05

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

The winter break within the German Professional Football Leagues will be shortened as for the season 2009/2010 from 6.5 to 3.5 weeks. That might have repercussions on injury incidence in either way, positive or negative. On the one hand, recovery time during the winter will be shorter, which might lead to an increased risk of injury. On the other hand, it will allow a better spread of games in the second round, thus reducing the amount of the so-called "English weeks", which in turn could reduce the number of injuries. This study compares injury incidence between the season 2008/2009 (long winter break) and the season 2009/2010(short winter break) via questionnaires in accordance with UEFA/FIFA injury evaluation criteria.

Conditions

Interventions

OTHER

shortened winter break

winter break shortened by 3 weeks (from 6.5 to 3.5) within the German Professional Soccer League in season 2009/2010

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Deutsche Fußball-Liga GmbH (German Soccer League Ltd.)

    collaborator UNKNOWN

  • Universität des Saarlandes

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Karen aus der Fünten, MD, MChiro · Saarland University, Institute for Sports and Preventive Medicine

Eligibility

Min Age
16 Years
Max Age
40 Years
Sex
MALE
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2009-01-31
Primary Completion
2010-12-31
Completion
2010-12-31

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