Arm Pump in Motorcross Training

Healthy Individuals Clinical Trial

Official title:

Hand Strength Grip and Ergonomics of Driving as Risk Factors in the Etiology of Arm Pump in Motorcross Training

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT02096796
• Other study ID #: S56412
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• First received: March 21, 2014
• Last updated: September 16, 2015
• Start date: April 2014
• Est. completion date: May 2015

Study information

• Verified date: September 2015
• Source: Universitaire Ziekenhuizen Leuven
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Health authority: Belgium: Institutional Review Board
• Study type: Observational

Clinical Trial Summary

Arm Pump is a sport specific term drivers use to describe Acute or Chronic Compartment Syndrome of the forearm. Drivers experience pain in the forearms due to increased blood pressure in forearm muscle compartments. No strategies nor methods have been used to diminish the risk to suffer from arm pump within motor cross.

This project aims to look at ergonomics of driving and its relationship with the occurrence of arm pump.

The investigators will first investigate the experience of motor cross athletes with arm pump through motor cross federations in Belgium and The Netherlands (survey).

Two groups of athletes will be selected (20 persons within each group) who will be invited to the motor cross track to investigate their hand grip strength, motor driving position, muscle activity.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 11
• Est. completion date: May 2015
• Est. primary completion date: December 2014
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: Both
• Age group: 18 Years to 50 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• recreational or competitive motor cycling athletes

• with or without arm pump problems

• signing informed consent

• participation with their own motor bike

• Regular training hours

Exclusion Criteria:

• Inactive for more than 2 weeks before participation

• Pathology at shoulder, elbow or wrist level (except for arm pump)

Study Design

Observational Model: Cohort, Time Perspective: Prospective

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Healthy Individuals
• Patients With Arm Pump

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Belgium	Motor Cross Track	Lommel	Limbur

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Universitaire Ziekenhuizen Leuven

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Belgium, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Other	muscle activity	Use of surface electromyography in order to record muscle activity of forearm and upper arm musculature	March - June 2014 (3 months)	No
Primary	motor ergonomics	2D video-recording will be used to observe motor sitting position	March - June 2014 (3 months)	No
Secondary	hand grip strength	Use of hand grip dynamometer (Biometrics) to measure hand grip strength.	March - June 2014 (3 months)	No