NCT05574322

Efficacy of a Foot Strengthening Protocol on Sport Performance Kinetics

• Status: Terminated
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 30 (actual)
• Sponsor: Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Saint Etienne · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 40 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

This randomized controlled trial aims to explore the effect of a foot strengthening protocol on toe flexion strength, foot deformation and morphology as well as kinetics during sprinting, cutting and jumping in healthy athletes (18-40 completed years). The study consists of a 4 weeks control period, followed by 8 weeks intervention period and 4 weeks follow up

Detailed description

During the first period participants are unaware of their allocation, while in the intervention period they will be allocated to a train intervention or a control group (habits maintenance). The primary outcome is the toes maximal voluntary isometric plantarflexion. The treatment effectiveness estimand is the same as in a pretest-posttest case control study, considering the end of the control period as pre-point. An estimation of the individual variability in response to the treatment will be provided.

Conditions

• Healthy Athletes
• Healthy Volonteers

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Progressive foot strengthening protocol	This interventional group will perform the foot strengthening protocol (PRP) with physical tests as : * Maximum muscle strength of the foot * Foot muscle morphology
OTHER	Control group	The control group will not perform the foot strengthening protocol and will continue with all their daily activities with no change in lifestyle.

Timeline

• Start date: 2023-02-03
• Primary completion: 2024-02-14
• Completion: 2024-06-13
• First posted: 2022-10-10
• Last updated: 2024-09-19

Locations

1 site across 1 country: France