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Fitness- and Health-related Effects of a Sports Injury Prevention Program in Competitive Alpine Skiers

NCT04021576 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 129

Last updated 2023-03-03

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Summary

Overall Goal: Elaboration of an evidence-based, national prevention strategy to protect the health of competitive alpine skiers, with a particular focus on youth athletes.

Background: Competitive alpine skiing has a relatively high injury risk. 60% of all athletes suffer from a severe knee injury in the early stages of their career, and 20% struggle with recurrent overuse problems of the knee and lower back.

Research Aims: (1) to investigate the effects of a 12-month sports injury prevention program on training attitudes, eccentric hamstring strength, leg axis-/hip-/core-stability and general fitness in competitive alpine skiers; (2) to assess the effectiveness the aforementioned prevention program to lower the occurring health problems in competitive alpine skiers; (3) to identify different pain conditions (knee, back, no pain) based on data measured with smartphones; and (4) to investigate the agreement of self-reported questionnaire data with measured smartphone data and pain as an affecting factor.

Methods: 12-month intervention a sports injury prevention program, a prospective health- and training/activity-monitoring, as well as assessments of eccentric hamstring strength, leg axis/hip/core stability and general fitness at baseline and follow-up.

Conditions

  • Athletics

Interventions

OTHER

preventative training program

complementary training of leg-, hip- and core-strength/stability

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Swiss National Science Foundation

    collaborator OTHER

  • Balgrist University Hospital

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Jörg Spörri, PD Dr. · Balgrist University Hospital

Study Design

Allocation
NON_RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
NONE
Model
SEQUENTIAL

Eligibility

Min Age
13 Years
Max Age
36 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2017-10-01
Primary Completion
2022-02-28
Completion
2022-02-28

Countries

  • Switzerland

Study Locations

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