NCT05647031

Pain in Competitive Athletes With Physical Disabilities and Techniques for Its Management

• Status: Completed
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 21 (actual)
• Sponsor: Universidad Politecnica de Madrid · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 15 Years – 55 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

There are psychosocial factors that affect pain, and therefore, psychological intervention techniques have been added to its usual pharmacological and physiotherapeutic treatment. Despite the abundant evidence that addresses psychosocial factors as clear mediators in the perception of pain, the use of psychological techniques for pain management in competitive athletes, and more especially in competitive athletes with physical disabilities, is scarce. The purpose of this study was to ascertain the perception of high-level competitive athletes with physical disability and sports agents (coaches, physiotherapists and psychologists).

Detailed description

Qualitative study with in-depth interviews to find out the perception of sports agents (coaches, physiotherapists and psychologists) and athletes on how pain can affect the development of the sports career and to determine what techniques are known and/or implemented by sports agents (coaches, physiotherapists and psychologists) and athletes to manage pain.

Conditions

• Athletic Injuries
• Physical Disability
• Chronic Pain

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Qualitative study. Pain in competitive athletes with physical disabilities and techniques for its management.	This study used a qualitative, exploratory and descriptive methodology, with a semi-structured interview technique. The purpose was to respond to the specific objectives set out in this research from the perspective of competitive athletes and sports agents (physiotherapist, coach and psychologist). The thematic cores that served as a script for the interview were for the athletes and sports agents 1) sporting characteristics of the professionals; 2) perception of how pain affects this type of athlete and what repercussions it has on the development of their sporting career, and 3) knowledge of techniques and/or strategies for pain management (athlete, coach and psychologist). The interviews were conducted via skype. After transcription of all the interviews, validation by the interviewees was applied for the reliability of the research. Two types of triangulation were applied to ensure the quality of the data.

Timeline

• Start date: 2020-12-18
• Primary completion: 2021-01-16
• Completion: 2021-01-28
• First posted: 2022-12-12
• Last updated: 2022-12-14

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Spain