Preventing Injuries in Young Football Players

Injury Prevention Clinical Trial

Official title:

Preventing Injuries in Young Football Players: a Cluster Randomised Controlled Trial

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT05137015
• Other study ID #: Injury Prevention Study 21/22
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: September 4, 2021
• Est. completion date: January 21, 2023

Study information

• Verified date: April 2023
• Source: Universität des Saarlandes
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

Football is the most popular sport in the world, with 260 million male and female active participants, including ~113,000 FIFA registered professional players. Playing football is fun and can provide many health benefits, however, it also presents a high injury risk. Studies on elite and non-elite footballers have reported similar injury rates in both genders. The most common football-related injuries are the knee and ankle ligament and thigh muscle strains, Over the past two decades, significant advancement has been made in the field of injury prevention in football. There are used trials to prevent specific injuries, as ankle sprain, ACL injuries, hamstring strains, etc. On the other hand, there are created programs designed to prevent a wider spectrum of injuries like FIFA11+. Therefore, the aim of this study is to investigate the effect of a new injury prevention program on the overall injury incidence in young football players.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 1027
• Est. completion date: January 21, 2023
• Est. primary completion date: May 29, 2022
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: Male
• Age group: 13 Years to 19 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

officially registered football club in the football federation of Kosovo players must be between 13-19 years old regular training must take place at least three times per week Exclusion Criteria: teams already using an injury prevention program injured players

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Injury Prevention
• Wounds and Injuries

Intervention

Other:
• Injury prevention program
The execution of the program takes 10-15 minutes. The program will be performed in the training sessions, after the usual warm-up. The program is based on scientific evidence that has previously shown good efficacy on injury prevention in football. The exercise categories address 7 aspects: Balance Core stability Hamstring eccentrics Glute activation Plyometrics Running Games The games are included with the aim to increase the attractiveness of the program. Each category contains 2 exercises and the coach is free to decide which one to choose in every training session. All exercises are organized in five or six levels with increasing difficulty (physically and cognitively).

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Kosovo	University of Gjakova	Gjakove

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Universität des Saarlandes

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Kosovo, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Overall injury rate		up to 9 months