Sport Without Injury ProgrammE Floorball

Athletic Injuries Clinical Trial

— SWIPE  

Official title:

Sport Without Injury ProgrammE Floorball

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT03309904
• Other study ID #: MHägglund SWIPE Floorball
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: September 15, 2017
• Est. completion date: May 31, 2018

Study information

• Verified date: August 2018
• Source: Linkoeping University
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

This study evaluates the preventive effect of a neuromuscular training program on injuries in youth floorball players. Half of participants will receive the training program, and half act as control and perform their usual training practices.

Description:

The study is a cluster-randomized controlled trial including male and female youth (12-17 years) floorball players. Club is used as cluster unit.

Coaches in the intervention group receive education of the preventive neuromuscular training program Knee Control (Knäkontroll) before the start of the season. Knee Control consists of 6 different exercises, with 4 different variations and 1 pair-exercise, and takes about 10 minutes to complete. In addition, coaches are instructed to perform a 5-minute running warm-up before the Knee Control exercises. Teams are to carry out the intervention at all training sessions, and the 5-minute warm-up also before all matches.

Coaches in the control group carry on their normal training and warm-up routines with their clubs.

Teams are followed for one full season: October 2017 - March 2018. Data registered for the study include exposure to floorball training and matches, and injuries that occur as a result of participation in floorball.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 910
• Est. completion date: May 31, 2018
• Est. primary completion date: April 15, 2018
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: All
• Age group: 12 Years to 17 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Teams with players 12-17 years of age (born 2000-2005)

• Teams who have not used a structured training program aiming to prevent injuries (the Knee Control or similar program) on a regular basis the last year

• Teams who have training at least twice per week

Exclusion Criteria:

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Athletic Injuries
• Wounds and Injuries

Intervention

Other:
• Knee Control training program
10-minute training program to be performed at all team training sessions during the season.

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Sweden	Linköping University	Linköping

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Linkoeping University

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Sweden, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	All physical complaints injury	Any floorball related injury regardless of need of care or absence from floorball training or matches ("all physical complaints" injury definition)	Study start up to end of season (6 months)
Secondary	Time-loss injury	Floorball related injury causing absence from the next training or match with the team ("time-loss injury")	Study start up to end of season (6 months)
Secondary	Medical attention injury	Floorball related injury requiring the player to seek care ("medical attention injury")	Study start up to end of season (6 months)
Secondary	Adverse events	Adverse events of using the program (intervention group only)	Study start up to end of season (6 months)
Secondary	Intervention compliance and fidelity	Coach reported compliance and fidelity with the program protocol (intervention group only)	Study start up to end of season (6 months)
Secondary	Coach experience of injuries and intervention program	Coach baseline and follow-up experiences of injuries (control group and intervention group) and of the Knee Control program (intervention group only)	Baseline and 6 months
Secondary	Player experience of injuries and intervention program	Player baseline and follow-up experiences of injuries (control group and intervention group) and of the Knee Control program (intervention group only)	Baseline and 6 months
Secondary	Exercise fidelity	Exercise fidelity (observation of the technique when using the intervention in select intervention group teams)	At approximately 2 months and 5 months
Secondary	Health care need	Number of health care visits due to floorball related injuries during the season, type of diagnostic examinations and treatments	After study end at 6 months
Secondary	Costs	Estimated costs of floorball related injuries and costs of the intervention	After study end at 6 months