NCT05713487

Preventive Treatment of Groin Pain in Football

Preventive Treatment of Groin Pain Syndrome in élite Young Football Player: a Pilot Study

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 42 (actual)
• Sponsor: Universita degli Studi di Genova · Academic / Other
• Sex: Male
• Age: 16 Years – 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

Groin pain represents a common issue in football. Currently, there are no prevention protocols demonstrating real effectiveness. We aimed to investigate the possible positive effect of a prevention program for groin pain.Forty-two élite male athletes belonging to a youth academy of a professional football club were recruited in this prospective, randomized, controlled, single-blind, study.

Conditions

• Healthy

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	preventive treatment group	each athlete belonging to the preventive treatment group performed the protocol of preventive treatment 2 times a week, before or after the training session for five months

Timeline

• Start date: 2022-01-10
• Primary completion: 2022-05-20
• Completion: 2022-12-20
• First posted: 2023-02-06
• Last updated: 2023-02-06

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Italy