The Impact of FIFA 11+ on Isokinetic Muscle Strength and Balance

Injury Prevention Clinical Trial

Official title:

The Impact of FIFA 11+ Exercise Program on Isokinetic Muscle Strength and Balance on Adolescent Amateur Soccer Players.

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT06049628
• Other study ID #: FIFA 11+
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: April 1, 2019
• Est. completion date: December 30, 2019

Study information

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

Clinical Trial Summary

FIFA 11+ program; It consists of simple, easily remembered, and time-consuming, sport-specific exercises underlying fair play. Although the FIFA 11+ program is a well-established warm-up protocol for injury prevention among football players, the performance improvement aspect of the program is not often discussed in the literature. The study's objective is to investigate the efficacy of the FIFA 11+ program on sports performance parameters such as dynamic balance, isokinetic muscle strength performance in adolescent amateur male football players.

Description:

This study was planned in a randomized controlled experimental type. The footballers of a team from an amateur league will be included in the research. All participants will be tested at baseline and 9 weeks after baseline. The participants will be submitted to the following testing procedures: dynamic balance (Star Excursion Balance Test), muscle strength assessment (Isokinetic assessment). After the baseline measurements will be completed, the control group members will be advised to continue their regular warm-up program. This program consists of jogging and stretching exercises. The experimental group will complete the FIFA 11+ training, which consisted of six different types of running exercises; six exercises with three levels of increasing difficulty to improve the participants' strength, agility, core stability, eccentric control, etc.; and advanced running exercises, such as running across the pitch, bounding, planting, cutting. The FIFA 11+ will be applied to the experimental group 3 times a week for 9 weeks. The control group's warm-up duration will be matched to the experimental group's duration (20-25 min). This routine workout will perform 3 times a week for 9 weeks. At the end of 9 weeks, the evaluations will be repeated (Star Excursion Balance Test, Isokinetic assessment).

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 24
• Est. completion date: December 30, 2019
• Est. primary completion date: April 1, 2019
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: Male
• Age group: 15 Years to 18 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• ) To accept being a case study member

• ) Being in the 15-18 age range

• ) To be a soccer player in amateur league clubs with experience for at least one year

• ) Having no systemic diseases

• ) Having the necessary mental and physical activity level to be able to take and complete the tests

Exclusion Criteria:

• ) Refusing to be a member of a case study

• ) Having visual impairment and perceptual disorder at a severe level

• ) Having pain that prevents testing

• ) Having diseases with neurological dysfunction

• ) Footballers who stop playing active football during the study period and disrupt the training program by not participating in 3 exercises in a row

• ) Having an injury in the research process

• ) Having an injury in the last six months before the research

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Injury Prevention

Intervention

Behavioral:
• FIFA 11+ exercise program
FIFA 11+ program; It consists of simple, easily remembered, and time-consuming, sport-specific exercises underlying fair play. The F 11+ consisted of 3 parts: the first part consisted of running exercises (part 1); the second part included six exercises, which were made up of three levels of difficulty and aimed at enhancing balance, strength, muscle control, and core stability (part 2). The final and the third part covered advanced running exercises (part 3) .
• routine program
This program consists of jogging, and stretching exercises.

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Turkey	Yeditepe University	Istanbul

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Yeditepe University

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Turkey, 

References & Publications (1)

Ayala F, Pomares-Noguera C, Robles-Palazon FJ, Del Pilar Garcia-Vaquero M, Ruiz-Perez I, Hernandez-Sanchez S, De Ste Croix M. Training Effects of the FIFA 11+ and Harmoknee on Several Neuromuscular Parameters of Physical Performance Measures. Int J Sports Med. 2017 Apr;38(4):278-289. doi: 10.1055/s-0042-121260. Epub 2017 Feb 13. — View Citation

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Isokinetic assessment	When assessing the football players in terms of strengths, frequently use isokinetic systems . Computer aided muscle-testing dynamometers are utilized for measuring muscle force and this provides us with an assessment of muscles and group of muscle in an isokinetic manner. Isokinetic muscle testing is conducted with a stable speed of angular motion yet variable resistance.	Baseline
Primary	Isokinetic assessment	When assessing the football players in terms of strengths, frequently use isokinetic systems . Computer aided muscle-testing dynamometers are utilized for measuring muscle force and this provides us with an assessment of muscles and group of muscle in an isokinetic manner. Isokinetic muscle testing is conducted with a stable speed of angular motion yet variable resistance	After the 9-week intervention
Primary	balance assessment	Dynamic postural control will be measured with the Star Excursion Balance Test (SEBT), which will be applied with a system of 8 lines. The foot will be placed in the center of the testing system to be bisected equally in the medial-lateral anteroposterior planes. SEBT is made up of 8 directions: anterior, anterolateral, lateral, posterolateral, posterior, posteromedial, medial, and anteromedial.	Baseline
Primary	balance assessment	Dynamic postural control will be measured with the Star Excursion Balance Test (SEBT), which will be applied with a system of 8 lines. The foot will be placed in the center of the testing system to be bisected equally in the medial-lateral anteroposterior planes. SEBT is made up of 8 directions: anterior, anterolateral, lateral, posterolateral, posterior, posteromedial, medial, and anteromedial.	After the 9-week intervention