Effects Provided by a Physiotherapy Treatment Preventing Lower Extremity Injuries in Female Football Players

Anterior Cruciate Ligament Injuries Clinical Trial

Official title:

Effects Provided by a Physiotherapy Treatment Preventing Lower Extremity Injuries in Female Football Players: A Controlled Clinical Trial

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Recruiting

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT04062578
• Other study ID #: PI18/383
• Status: Recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: September 9, 2019
• Est. completion date: January 20, 2020

Study information

• Verified date: September 2019
• Source: Universidad de Zaragoza
• Contact: Loreto L Ferrández Laliena, Physiotherapy
• Phone: +0034 666295923
• Email: loretousk[@]gmail.com
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

Background and justification: Women's football has a percentage of knee injury of 31.8%, and the anterior cruciate ligament lesion is between 2 and 4 times higher than the male. Injury prevention programs seek to improve the control of the neuromuscular recruitment, dynamic valgus and lumbopelvic stabilization. Recently Cibulka and Bennett have proposed a new prevention theory based on the strengthening of the external abductor and hip rotator muscles. The objective of this study is to design and carry out a physiotherapy program based on the prevention of modifiable risks factors.

Design: Controlled clinical trial

Methodology: 2 groups were formed, the first or experimental integrated by the female players from football team called CD Oliver (CDO), and control, integrated by the female players of the first team SD Huesca (SDH). The investigators will carried out an initial and final evaluation in which they will be collected data on variables of injury incidence, muscle length and torque. A physiotherapy program will be implemented that will consider three areas of weekly action during training, preventive force sessions, compensatory force sessions and physiotherapy sessions.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Recruiting
• Enrollment: 35
• Est. completion date: January 20, 2020
• Est. primary completion date: January 20, 2020
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: Female
• Age group: 15 Years and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Have a valid federal license signed by the competent medical authority.

• Be part of a team registered in the federated league.

• Train 4 and a half hours a week or more.

• Compete and train in regulatory fields, with artificial grass.

• Have a staff composed of a qualified technician, registered and in possession of the corresponding validated license.

• Sign the informed consent.

Exclusion Criteria:

• Suffering a lower limb injury at the start of the study.

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Anterior Cruciate Ligament Injuries
• Injuries, Knee
• Knee Injuries
• Prevention & Control
• Wounds and Injuries

Intervention

Behavioral:
• Physiotherapy program of lumbopelvic stabilization and strengthening of the hip region musculature
The intervention program will begin in August, along with the 2019/2020 season, and will finish at the end of the first round (5-6 months). It will be applied to CD Oliver players in three weekly sessions: preventive force, compensatory force and physiotherapy attention. During this intervention period, the SD Huesca players, control group, continued with their usual training program. They will not implement any physiotherapy program like the designed one for the study.

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Spain	Loreto Ferrández Laliena	Zaragoza

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Universidad de Zaragoza

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Spain, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Change in the strength of hip musculature	Quadriceps Hamstrings internal and external hip rotators hip abductors Hip flexors Hip extensors	The measures will be taken at the beginning and at the end of the study (45 minutes per player)
Secondary	Change in the muscle length test	Ely test (active and passive) Ober test (active and passive) Ake test Pake test	The measures will be taken at the beginning and at the end of the study (45 minutes per player)
Secondary	Injuries Incidence	number and type of injuries	through study completion, an average of 1 year