Effect of Blood Flow Restriction on Football-Related Performance Parameters

Exercise Clinical Trial

Official title:

Improvement of Football-Related Performance Parameters: Application of Blood Flow Restrictive Exercise

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT05452109
• Other study ID #: DrTez
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: December 12, 2022
• Est. completion date: October 27, 2023

Study information

• Verified date: June 2023
• Source: Biruni University
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

The blood flow restriction method can have similar or superior effects to high-intensity exercises even in a short duration, which can positively affect some performance parameters, can be applied with low-intensity load and cause hypertrophy in the muscle by providing high metabolic stress, facilitating muscle growth without significantly changing the total training dose. The aim of this study is to investigate whether adding the blood flow restriction method to the classical training program can be more effective than the classical training applied alone in the development of football-related performance parameters.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 20
• Est. completion date: October 27, 2023
• Est. primary completion date: April 27, 2023
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: Male
• Age group: 18 Years to 30 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Being a male between the ages of 18-30 years
• Volunteer to participate in the study
• Playing football in one of the clubs in Istanbul for at least 1 year
• Being in the pre-season of the club
• Absence of any ongoing musculoskeletal problems that limit exercising

Exclusion Criteria:

• Having at least one of the contraindications preventing the application of blood flow restriction (Smoking, previous venous thromboembolism, risk of peripheral vascular disease (ankle-brachial index <0.9), coronary heart disease, hypertension, hemophilia, etc.).
• History of sports injury in the last 6 months
• Orthopedic lower extremity surgery in the last 1 year
• Body mass index = 30 kg/m2

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Exercise
• Soccer
• Vascular Occlusion

Intervention

Other:
• Blood Flow Restriction
Blood flow restriction with low load (30-50% 1RM) for 2 sessions in a week for 6 weeks during classical training will be applied.
• Classical Training Alone
Classical training same as Group 1with moderate to high load (70-90% 1RM) for 2 sessions in a week for 6 weeks will be applied without blood restriction.

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Turkey	Biruni University	Istanbul
Turkey	Istanbul University Cerrahpasa	Istanbul

Sponsors (2)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Biruni University	Istanbul University - Cerrahpasa (IUC)

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Turkey, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Evaluation of Muscle Strength and Endurance	Isokinetic dynamometer	6 weeks
Secondary	Evaluation of Lower Extremity Power	Vertical jump test	6 weeks
Secondary	Evaluation of Aerobic Endurance	Yo-Yo Intermittent Recovery Level 1 test	6 weeks
Secondary	Evaluation of Change of Direction Speed	T Test	6 weeks
Secondary	Evaluation of Reactive Agility	Y-Shaped Reactive Agility Test	6 weeks
Secondary	Evaluation of Dynamic Balance	Y Balance Test	6 weeks
Secondary	Systemic Fatigue	Lactate analysis	6 weeks
Secondary	General Perceived Fatigue	Borg scale	6 weeks
Secondary	Evaluation of General Satisfaction and Perceived Performance Change	General satisfaction and the change in performance perceived by the participants will be evaluated with the 7 points Global Rating of Change Scale after the training program. According to the scale, it is expressed as "-3: I am much worse, -2: I am worse, -1: I am a little worse, 0: No change, 1: I am a little better, 2: I am better, 3: I am much better".	6th week