Clinical Trial Details
— Status: Not yet recruiting
Administrative data
| NCT number |
NCT05484778 |
| Other study ID # |
IU-ELIF-001 |
| Secondary ID |
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| Status |
Not yet recruiting |
| Phase |
N/A
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| First received |
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| Last updated |
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| Start date |
September 28, 2022 |
| Est. completion date |
October 5, 2022 |
Study information
| Verified date |
September 2022 |
| Source |
Istanbul University |
| Contact |
n/a |
| Is FDA regulated |
No |
| Health authority |
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| Study type |
Interventional
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Clinical Trial Summary
Functional Hop tests and balance measurements are frequently used to decide on returning to
sports after lower extremity injuries. Although the athletes show proficiency in these tests
and measurements, re-injuries occur when returning to sports. The causes of these re-injuries
are mostly functional deficiencies such as inadequate neuromuscular control and stability.
In the competition or sports environment, especially in team games, the athlete also shows
cognitive performance, such as communication with teammates and following the game, which are
included in the game setup, as well as the physical performance. Performing many tasks or
performances at the same time divides the focus of attention on the activities performed, and
if the person cannot adequately meet the attention demands, the quality of one or more of the
tasks performed will deteriorate. As the level of expertise in the sport increases, the
athlete tends to manage his posture, balance and movement with automatic postural control and
can focus his attention on a new task.
The concept of focus of attention has been evaluated from different perspectives over time.
If it is examined in terms of direction; It is divided into two as the internal focus of
attention, which is used by focusing on body movements during the performance of the person,
and the external focus of attention, which is used by focusing on the effect of the movement
during the performance of the person. As the investigators planned in this study, a second
cognitive task assigned to the participant simultaneously during his or her physical
performance acts as an external focus of attention, allowing movement control during
performance to be carried out by unconscious or automatic processes.
The investigators's aim; It is to examine the balance and functional hop tests that the
investigator will apply in athletes by combining them with a simultaneous dual cognitive task
that will reflect the field conditions more realistically. In the meantime, investigators
think that with the sharing of our results with the literature, it can contribute to both the
decision-making processes to return to sports after injury and preventive rehabilitation
programs.
Description:
As a result of this study, the possible changes in balance and functional jump performances
of athletes who have previously had unilateral lower extremity injuries will be examined with
the dual-task paradigm. In line with these results, it will be possible to comment on the
balance and functional hop test performances of the athletes together with the cognitive
task. Balance measurements and functional performance evaluations are used in the decision to
return to sports after previous injuries. After the measurements, the affected and unaffected
side are compared and an evaluation is made. However, even with these tests and evaluations,
athletes are injured again when they return to sports. One of the reasons for this may be
that the protective and controlled environment applied during rehabilitation is less
challenging and requires less attention when compared to the competitive and sports
environment in which the person is involved. For this reason, the investigator think that the
evaluations and tests used in the decision to return to sports include both cognitive and
physical performance by forcing the attention demands of the person, and it may be more
effective in determining the real performance of the person. Thus, the use of physical
assessments applied with simultaneous cognitive tasks can be used in the evaluation of the
athletes during the return to sports by calculating the possible measurement differences
between the affected and unaffected sides compared to the classical procedure, and in the
planning of preventive rehabilitation programs of the athletes if there is a decrease in
performance in the measurements applied as a dual task. It also contributes to studies that
examine performance together with the dual task previously applied to athletes. Secondly, by
examining the relationship between balance and functional hop test parameters, it will be
determined how effective the independent variables are on each other. If the performance of
individuals who have had a previous injury change with the dual task and the mechanisms of
these possible changes are known, protective and performance-enhancing strategies can be
developed, the cognitive and physical preparation of the athletes for the sports environment
can be accelerated, and the risks of re-injury of the athletes can be reduced, as a result of
which medical costs can be reduced.
