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Gait Retraining Enhances Athletes' Technique

NCT03918681 · Status: TERMINATED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 10

Last updated 2025-09-23

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Summary

The participant population for this study will be a convenience sample of 40 active duty soldiers and cadets at West Point, New York (NY) who are recovering from anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction (ACLR) and are cleared to return to run by their medical provider. Two groups will be utilized in this pre-test, post-test, single-blind randomized controlled trial study design. The purpose of this study is to determine if patients recovering from ACLR benefit from running gait retraining to adopt a forefoot strike pattern and 5-10% increase in step rate when compared to a traditional walk to run program.

Conditions

Interventions

OTHER

Therapeutic Intervention

Instruction for all participants in the experimental group will begin with transitioning foot strike pattern from a rearfoot strike to a non-rearfoot strike running pattern (NRFS) and increasing preferred step rate by 5-10%. Each participant program thereafter will be progressed individually according to the clinical investigators follow up assessments of running mechanics and participant pain and function with running. Intervention gait retraining sessions will include drills for reinforcement to include soft landing single leg bounding, adequate time to practice, and pre-class and post-class video assessment with feedback.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Telemedicine & Advanced Technology Research Center

    collaborator OTHER

  • Keller Army Community Hospital

    lead FED

Principal Investigators

  • Erin M Miller, MS, ABD · Keller Army Community Hospital

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Max Age
50 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2019-08-01
Primary Completion
2020-01-30
Completion
2020-01-30

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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