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Effects Provided by a Physiotherapy Treatment Preventing Lower Extremity Injuries in Female Football Players

NCT04062578 · Status: UNKNOWN · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 35

Last updated 2019-09-04

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Summary

Background and justification: Women's football has a percentage of knee injury of 31.8%, and the anterior cruciate ligament lesion is between 2 and 4 times higher than the male. Injury prevention programs seek to improve the control of the neuromuscular recruitment, dynamic valgus and lumbopelvic stabilization. Recently Cibulka and Bennett have proposed a new prevention theory based on the strengthening of the external abductor and hip rotator muscles. The objective of this study is to design and carry out a physiotherapy program based on the prevention of modifiable risks factors.

Design: Controlled clinical trial

Methodology: 2 groups were formed, the first or experimental integrated by the female players from football team called CD Oliver (CDO), and control, integrated by the female players of the first team SD Huesca (SDH). The investigators will carried out an initial and final evaluation in which they will be collected data on variables of injury incidence, muscle length and torque. A physiotherapy program will be implemented that will consider three areas of weekly action during training, preventive force sessions, compensatory force sessions and physiotherapy sessions.

Conditions

  • Anterior Cruciate Ligament Injuries
  • Injuries, Knee
  • Prevention & Control

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Physiotherapy program of lumbopelvic stabilization and strengthening of the hip region musculature

The intervention program will begin in August, along with the 2019/2020 season, and will finish at the end of the first round (5-6 months). It will be applied to CD Oliver players in three weekly sessions: preventive force, compensatory force and physiotherapy attention. During this intervention period, the SD Huesca players, control group, continued with their usual training program. They will not implement any physiotherapy program like the designed one for the study.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Universidad de Zaragoza

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Loreto L Ferrández Laliena, Physiotheraphy · Universidad de Zaragoza

Study Design

Allocation
NON_RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
15 Years
Sex
FEMALE
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2019-09-09
Primary Completion
2020-01-20
Completion
2020-01-20

Countries

  • Spain

Study Locations

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