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Sport Concussion Performance-Based Prevention Program

NCT04992130 · Status: UNKNOWN · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 400

Last updated 2021-09-20

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Summary

Sport-related concussions and traumatic lower body injuries (e.g., anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) tears) occur frequently in high-speed and contact/collision sports contributing to significant time loss from training/competition and potentially devastating long-term performance and health consequences. Neurological impairment following a concussive injury may be subtle, but if missed, may have grave consequences in a high-risk, high-speed sporting context. Recent evidence suggests that the risk of lower body musculoskeletal injury is significantly higher for athletes sustaining a sport-related concussion in the three-month to two-year period following injury. Most injury prevention research to date has focused on modifiable extrinsic risk factors; there is a void or gap on modifiable intrinsic risk factors.

The purpose of this study is to:

1. determine the effect of a standardized supplementary pre-season multi-modal neurologic training program, versus usual training, on concussion and/or traumatic lower body injury risk among high-speed/contact/collision sport athletes (primary prevention).
2. determine the effect of a standardized supplementary pre-season multi-modal neurologic training program, versus usual training, on concussion and/or traumatic lower body injury severity (time loss from training/competition measured in days, determined from the date of injury to the date a sport medicine physician medically clears the athlete to return to unrestricted training/competition) (secondary prevention).
3. determine the effect of a standardized supplementary pre-season multi-modal neurologic training program, versus usual training, on neurologic performance.

The investigators hypothesize that athletes completing the standardized supplementary pre-season multi-modal neurologic training program, compared with usual training, will significantly reduce the participants risk and severity of concussion and/or traumatic lower body injury, and significantly improve neurologic performance.

Conditions

  • Concussion, Brain
  • Traumatic Injury

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Pre-season supplementary neurologic training program

A two-month standardized, pre-season, supplementary multi-modal training program will be prescribed to 200 athletes (intervention cohort) by a team of experienced sport science and medicine professionals targeting the specific intrinsic risk factors of interest identified in the current concussion and ACL prevention literature.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • University of Calgary

    lead OTHER

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
DOUBLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
15 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2021-09-13
Primary Completion
2023-04-30
Completion
2023-08-31

Countries

  • Canada

Study Locations

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