NCT04078256

The Importance of Exercise to Prevent Injuries in Athletes

EFFECTIVENESS OF A PROPRIOCEPTIVE EXERCISE PROGRAM IN THE PREVENTION OF INJURIES IN RECREATIONAL RUNNERS

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 66 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Alcala · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 70 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

Introduction: running is one of the most accessible and practiced sports in the world since the 21st century. Unfortunately, the incidence of injuries in the population that practices it is high regardless of experience, although the risk of injury increases in amateur runners. One of the main keys to reduce the incidence of running related injuries may be to improve the ability to reduce the load or impact. For this, there are different strategies such as a gradual increase in the load to run, and exercise within which is muscle strengthening and balance training or proprioception. Objective: to verify the effectiveness of a program of proprioceptive exercises based on the static and dynamic balance for the reduction of lower limb injuries in amateur runners during the competition season.

Detailed description

Methodology: 66 amateur runners, after simple size calculation, will be randomized into two groups. Experimental group will carry out the proprioceptive exercise program during 8 weeks at the begining of the season and control group will continue with their usual training routine. The main variable running related injury will be collected weekly during the follow-up. Results: When all the data needed for the study has been collected, researchers gathers results and exports them for statistical interpretation.

Conditions

• Injury;Sports

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Proprioceptive exercise program	Group A will carry out two sessions of proprioceptive training per week, in a total of 8 weeks, during the pre-season period (September-October). Each session will last approximately 30 minutes and will include 6 exercises. The execution of the exercises will be supervised by a physiotherapist and a national trainer of athletics.
OTHER	Usual training routine	The subjects of the control group (group B) will be informed so that they do not include any change in their usual training routine.

Timeline

• Start date: 2019-10-01
• Primary completion: 2020-01-25
• Completion: 2020-03-10
• First posted: 2019-09-06
• Last updated: 2020-05-26

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Spain