Effect of Neuromuscular Warm-up on Injuries in Female Athletes

Anterior Cruciate Ligament Injuries Clinical Trial

Official title:

Effect of Neuromuscular Warm-up on Injuries in Female Athletes in Urban Public High Schools: A Cluster-randomized Controlled Trial

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT01092286
• Other study ID #: IRB2006-12888
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• First received: March 23, 2010
• Last updated: January 23, 2018
• Start date: July 2006
• Est. completion date: July 2009

Study information

• Verified date: January 2018
• Source: Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

The goal of the study is to determine effect of coach-led neuromuscular warm-up on non-contact, lower extremity (LE) injury rates among female athletes in a predominantly non-white public high school system. The investigators hypothesized the warm-up would reduce non-contact LE injuries.

Description:

We will recruit basketball and soccer coaches and their athletes from Chicago public high schools. We will randomize teams to intervention and control groups. We will train intervention coaches to implement a 20-minute neuromuscular warm-up and tracked training costs. Control coaches will use their usual warm-up. All coaches will report weekly athlete exposures (AEs) and injuries resulting in a missed practice/game. Research assistants will interview injured athletes. We will compare injury rates between control and intervention groups.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 1653
• Est. completion date: July 2009
• Est. primary completion date: July 2009
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: All
• Age group: 14 Years to 80 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria for High School Students (initial part of study - completed)

• plays basketball or soccer for a Chicago public high school team

• coaches basketball or soccer for a Chicago public high school team

• female, age 14-20

Inclusion Criteria for coaches (current part of study):

• Willing to implement a new warm-up before their team's practices and games

• Willing to complete a pre- and post-season survey before and after using the warm-up program for one season (surveys are attached).

• Willing to complete a pre- and post-workshop test before and after the workshop (tests are attached).

• Willing to allow study personnel to observe their implementation of the warm-up at up to three team practices or games.

Exclusion Criteria for coaches (current part of study) There are no separate exclusion criteria for coaches.

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Ankle Injuries
• Anterior Cruciate Ligament Injuries
• Knee Injuries
• Lower Extremity Injuries
• Wounds and Injuries

Intervention

Other:
• neuromuscular warm-up
neuromuscular warm-up exercises that take 20 minutes to perform

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
United States	Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago	Chicago	Illinois

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago

Country where clinical trial is conducted

United States, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	lower extremity injury rates		one year
Secondary	coach compliance with warm-up		one year

External Links

•   Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago(formerly Children's Memorial Hospital) website describing the project and program