NCT02098044

Knee Osteoarthritis Risk in Retired Professional Footballers

An Investigation of the Prevalence of Knee Osteoarthritis and Pain in Retired Professional Male Footballers in the United Kingdom

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 1,300 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Nottingham · Academic / Other
• Sex: Male
• Age: 40 Years – 80 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The OA and Football Study is an epidemiological study designed to establish the prevalence of knee osteoarthritis in retired professional footballers. The study will also identify the key risk factors associated with knee osteoarthritis. The study is comprised of three phases: Phase I involves the dissemination of a questionnaire (demographic details, players history, injury and surgery and other known risk factors of OA), Phase II is a radiographic study that involves x-rays in a sample of footballers both with and without knee pain and Phase III is a case control study which will compared retired professional footballers with age-matched controls recruited from the general population in the East Midlands region.

Detailed description

Number of Participants: Phase I: 1000 Phase II: 855 Phase III: 500 Primary outcome: The questionnaire will contain player specific information and will include validated outcome measures such as the health status questionnaire as well as self-reported pain, recall of injury and surgery history. The results of the questionnaire will be exported firstly to Excel and subsequently, into MS Access as part of a managed database.

Conditions

• Osteoarthritis of the Knee

Timeline

• Start date: 2014-11-01
• Primary completion: 2016-01-01
• Completion: 2018-12-01
• First posted: 2014-03-27
• Last updated: 2018-05-24

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United Kingdom