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The Effect of a Shoulder Training Program to Prevent Shoulder Pain Among Girls in Junior Team Handball

NCT02631395 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 106

Last updated 2017-01-30

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

Very little is known about the potential for preventing the prevalence of shoulder complaints in handball players, particularly younger players. The aim of this study is to evaluate the effect of a shoulder training program on shoulder pain during a season of team handball.

Conditions

  • Shoulder Pain

Interventions

OTHER

Exercise

Three teams participated in a seven--month, three--times--a--week shoulder--muscle strength--training program while three teams participated in a comparable handball training program but did not conduct any specific upper--body strength training.

OTHER

Control group

The three teams in the Control Group trained as normal throughout the season and participated in a comparable handball training program, but did not conduct any specific upper--body strength training

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Norwegian University of Science and Technology

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Jan Harry Størksen · Norwegian University of Science and Technology

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
15 Years
Max Age
17 Years
Sex
FEMALE
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2014-09-30
Primary Completion
2015-05-31
Completion
2015-05-31

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