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The Importance of Exercise to Prevent Injuries in Athletes

NCT04078256 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 66

Last updated 2020-05-26

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Summary

Introduction: running is one of the most accessible and practiced sports in the world since the 21st century. Unfortunately, the incidence of injuries in the population that practices it is high regardless of experience, although the risk of injury increases in amateur runners. One of the main keys to reduce the incidence of running related injuries may be to improve the ability to reduce the load or impact. For this, there are different strategies such as a gradual increase in the load to run, and exercise within which is muscle strengthening and balance training or proprioception.

Objective: to verify the effectiveness of a program of proprioceptive exercises based on the static and dynamic balance for the reduction of lower limb injuries in amateur runners during the competition season.

Conditions

  • Injury;Sports

Interventions

OTHER

Proprioceptive exercise program

Group A will carry out two sessions of proprioceptive training per week, in a total of 8 weeks, during the pre-season period (September-October). Each session will last approximately 30 minutes and will include 6 exercises. The execution of the exercises will be supervised by a physiotherapist and a national trainer of athletics.

OTHER

Usual training routine

The subjects of the control group (group B) will be informed so that they do not include any change in their usual training routine.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • University of Alcala

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Tomas Gallego-Izquierdo, Dr. · Alcala University

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
DOUBLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Max Age
70 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2019-10-01
Primary Completion
2020-01-25
Completion
2020-03-10

Countries

  • Spain

Study Locations

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