NCT06302114

Upper Extremity Asymmetries in Overhead Athletes

Upper Extremity Asymmetries in Overhead Athletes: Relationship With Injury and Performance

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 58 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Pamukkale University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 15 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

Although overhead sports have different characteristics, the movements in the shoulder and upper extremity are similar. These sports may involve a combination of symmetrical, asymmetrical, bilateral and unilateral movements. In sports involving asymmetric movements, biomechanical changes are observed in that area due to the use of the dominant extremity. One of the reliable methods to reveal the stress effects caused by biomechanical stresses is to determine limb asymmetries. Considering the literature, limb asymmetries may be related to injury and performance.

Conditions

• Extremity Asymmetries
• Injury;Sports
• Performance

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Assessment of overhead athletes	Assessment of medicine ball forward throw, Y balance test, Range of motion of the shoulder (internal and external rotation), strength of internal and external rotator muscles.

Timeline

• Start date: 2023-12-01
• Primary completion: 2024-03-27
• Completion: 2024-03-30
• First posted: 2024-03-08
• Last updated: 2024-03-26

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Turkey (Türkiye)