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Prevention of Lateral Epicondylalgia in Handgun Olympic Shooting Athletes

NCT06494332 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 61

Last updated 2024-10-18

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Summary

Lateral epicondylalgia is one of the most common pathologies suffered by Olympic gun shooting athletes. In Spain, there is hardly any research carried out in this sport, so there are no injury prevention protocols available. Preventing these injuries would be fundamental to improve the performance of athletes and to be able to continue adding successes to national honors.

It has also been evidenced that if exercise is combined with stretching, the benefits of physical therapy are increased. High-quality studies have stated that it is not necessary for this exercise protocol combined with stretching to be very prolonged over time, as they affirm that significant improvements can be achieved with only four weeks of exercise.

This study aimed to test the hypothesis that Olympic handgun shooting athletes who perform a four-week multimodal exercise program combined with stretching have a lower risk of suffering from lateral epicondylalgia than athletes who do not perform this program, determining its effectiveness for pain prevention.

Conditions

  • Epicondylitis, Lateral

Interventions

OTHER

Exercise and stretching programe

It consists in: a serie of mobility exercises, which were used as warp-up; the mobility of the elbow, forearm, wrist and fingers of both upper limbs was worked on; and, exercises were performed to strengthen the muscles of both forearms.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • University of Valencia

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • David Hernández-Guillén, PT, PhD · University of Valencia

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
35 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2024-07-01
Primary Completion
2024-08-31
Completion
2024-09-30

Countries

  • Spain

Study Locations

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