Predictors of Muscle Injury Risk in Non-professional Football Players

Sport Injury Clinical Trial

Official title:

Predictors of Muscle Injury Risk in Non-professional Football Players From the Principality of Asturias. An Ambispective Cohort Study.

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Not yet recruiting

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT06425809
• Other study ID #: Pred-Fut
• Status: Not yet recruiting
• Start date: May 20, 2024
• Est. completion date: July 1, 2024

Study information

• Verified date: May 2024
• Source: University of Oviedo
• Contact: Rubén Cuesta-Barriuso, PhD
• Phone: 607547274
• Email: cuestaruben[@]uniovi.es
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Observational

Clinical Trial Summary

Background. Football accounts for 30% of all sports injuries. Muscle injuries in football are the most common non-traumatic and non-contact injuries. A comprehensive approach to injury prevention must consider the design of the footwear and the environmental conditions in which the match is played.

Objective. To assess the risk of injury as a function of footwear and field of play in non-professional football players and to identify the best predictive model of muscle injury in these athletes.

Method. Ambispective cohort study. Ninety-seven players will be recruited. The primary variable will be the number of lower limb muscle injuries in the last 3 seasons. Secondary and modifying variables will be: age, body mass index, boot type, pitch turf, training load and field position. Potential confounding variables will be motivation for choice of footwear, date of muscle injuries, time playing in the category and presence in the starting team. The analysis will calculate the risk of adverse effects in these patients and assess the influence of confounders and trend analysis on the primary variable, stratified by potential confounders.

Expected outcomes. To calculate the risk of muscle injury as a function of anthropometric variables, and footwear and turf type. To identify the predictive model of muscle injuries in football players.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Not yet recruiting
• Enrollment: 97
• Est. completion date: July 1, 2024
• Est. primary completion date: June 15, 2024
• Gender: Male
• Age group: 18 Years to 30 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Federated, non-professional football players.

• Competing in category 3 RFEF (group 2).

• Who compete in the territorial delimitation of the Principality of Asturias.

• Subjects who have not undergone previous musculoskeletal surgery in the seasons under study.

• Who were federated at least one year before the study period.

Exclusion Criteria:

• Players who have not participated in competition, during the seasons under study, for a period of more than 6 months due to a musculoskeletal injury.

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Athletic Injuries
• Sport Injury
• Wounds and Injuries

Intervention

Other:
• Observation
The data collection will be carried out by the two researchers, in accordance with current data protection regulations, scrupulously complying with the anonymous collection of clinical data, and without collecting any data that could allow the identification of the athletes whose data are collected. The members of the research group will not have access to personal data that could facilitate the identity of any person on the basis of the data collected. The data collected in this study, anonymised from the outset, will be exported to an Excel file. Access to the Excel file will require password access and will be managed from a computer of the University of Oviedo (Department of Surgery and Medical-Surgical Specialities).

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Spain	University of Oviedo	Oviedo	Asturias

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
University of Oviedo

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Spain, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Asses the number of lower limb muscle injuries in the last 3 competition seasons	The primary variable, the number of lower limb muscle injuries in the last 3 seasons, will be assessed as a quantitative variable.	Screening visit
Secondary	Assess the age	The secondary variable, age (in years completed), will be assessed as a quantitative variable.	Screening visit
Secondary	Assess the body mass index	The secondary variable, body mass index (in kg/m2), will be assessed as a quantitative variable.	Screening visit
Secondary	Assess the type of training and competition boot in the last 3 competition seasons	The secondary variable, type of training and competition boot (rubber cleat/metal cleat), will be assessed as a nominal qualitative variable.	Screening visit
Secondary	Assess the type of training and competition pitch in the last 3 competition seasons	The secondary variable, type of training and competition pitch (sand pitch / artificial turf pitch / natural grass pitch), will be assessed as a nominal qualitative variable.	Screening visit
Secondary	Assess the type of muscle injury in the last 3 competition seasons	The secondary variable, type of muscle injury (fibrillar / musculotendinous / strain), will be assessed as an ordinal qualitative variable.	Screening visit
Secondary	Assess the weekly training load in the last 3 competition seasons	The secondary variable, weekly training load (hours/week), will be assessed as a quantitative variable.	Screening visit
Secondary	Assess the position on the field in the last 3 competition seasons	The secondary variable, position on the field (goalkeeper / defender / midfielder / striker), will be assessed as an ordinal qualitative variable.	Screening visit