NCT04062578

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

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

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 35 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Universidad de Zaragoza · Academic / Other
• Sex: Female
• Age: 15 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

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.

Conditions

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

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
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.

Timeline

• Start date: 2019-09-09
• Primary completion: 2020-01-20
• Completion: 2020-01-20
• First posted: 2019-08-20
• Last updated: 2019-09-04

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Spain