NCT01092286

Effect of Neuromuscular Warm-up on Injuries in Female Athletes

Effect of Neuromuscular Warm-up on Injuries in Female Athletes in Urban Public High Schools: A Cluster-randomized Controlled Trial

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 1,653 (actual)
• Sponsor: Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 14 Years – 80 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The goal of the study is to determine effect of coach-led neuromuscular warm-up on non-contact, lower extremity (LE) injury rates among female athletes in a predominantly non-white public high school system. The investigators hypothesized the warm-up would reduce non-contact LE injuries.

Detailed description

We will recruit basketball and soccer coaches and their athletes from Chicago public high schools. We will randomize teams to intervention and control groups. We will train intervention coaches to implement a 20-minute neuromuscular warm-up and tracked training costs. Control coaches will use their usual warm-up. All coaches will report weekly athlete exposures (AEs) and injuries resulting in a missed practice/game. Research assistants will interview injured athletes. We will compare injury rates between control and intervention groups.

Conditions

• Knee Injuries
• Anterior Cruciate Ligament Injuries
• Ankle Injuries
• Lower Extremity Injuries

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	neuromuscular warm-up	neuromuscular warm-up exercises that take 20 minutes to perform

Timeline

• Start date: 2006-07-01
• Primary completion: 2009-07-01
• Completion: 2009-07-01
• First posted: 2010-03-24
• Last updated: 2018-01-25

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States