NCT04892121

Prevention in Volleyball Players

The Efficiency of a Warm-up Prevention Program in Volleyball Players

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 93 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Liege · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 15 Years – 35 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The objective of this study is to assess the interest and the efficiency of a warm-up prevention program on the prevalence of shoulder injuries in amateur volleyball players. Around ten teams will be included in the study. They will be divided into two groups (blind): an intervention group and a control group. A warm-up prevention program will implemented in the teams of intervention group. This program will have to be followed twice a week, at the beginning of the training session. In both groups, shoulder injuries will be registered each month by an online questionnaire.

Detailed description

Around ten teams will be recruted among the clubs in the Province of Liege. They will be divided into two groups (blind): an intervention group and a control group. Each month, both groups will be asked to fill in a form with the potential injuries they experienced during the past month. * Intervention group : All the teams included in the intervention group will be asked to follow a warm-up prevention program (about 15 minutes) at least twice a week, at the beginning of the training session. At the beginning of the season, one experimenter will go to the different clubs in order to present the program, to explain the exercises and to correct the players while doint the exercises. During the season, the same experimenter will go to the clubs at regular intervals to make sure that the players are well doing the program and to assess the compliance. \- Control group : The objective of the control group is to estimate the prevalence of shoulder injuries in a group without any prevention implementation. The players of this group will jus have to answer the monthly questionnaire about the potential injuries they experienced during the previous month.

Conditions

• Prevention

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Prevention exercises	Participants will have to follow a warm-up prevention program (15 minutes) twice a week

Timeline

• Start date: 2021-08-15
• Primary completion: 2022-06-30
• Completion: 2022-06-30
• First posted: 2021-05-19
• Last updated: 2022-11-23

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Belgium