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RecruitingNCT06351618

Epidemiology of Injuries in the Professional Women's Swedish National IceHockey League Permitted to Body-Checking

Swedish Female Ice Hockey Injury Study

Status
Recruiting
Phase
Study type
Observational
Enrollment
225 (estimated)
Sponsor
Lund University · Academic / Other
Sex
Female
Age
16 Years – 110 Years
Healthy volunteers
Not accepted

Summary

This research project can contribute to a deeper understanding of injury patterns among professional female ice-hockey players allowed to body check. An understanding of common injury types and mechanisms aids the clinician in diagnosis and management. This information can guide preventative strategies in the areas of education, coaching, rule enforcement, rule modifications, equipment improvement, and sportsmanship. Today, ice hockey is a sport associated with many severe injuries that not only causes suffering and lower quality of life for the athlete, but also costs society a lot of money. Reducing the number and severity of sport-related injuries is therefore of importance. Knowledge of the injury epidemiology of women's hockey could also contribute to better preventive training programs and other injury preventive actions in the sport. Currently, only a minority of all sports medicine research is made on female study participants (26). This research project has the possibility to gain more knowledge about the female athlete, not only applicable for elite hockey-players, but also for female athletes in different disciplines and in youth teams. Knowledge of factors associated with injury could also contribute to better injury preventive actions and highlight subgroups in extra need of future preventive interventions.

Conditions

Interventions

TypeNameDescription
OTHERNo intervention will be conducted.No intervention will be conducted.

Timeline

Start date
2023-12-01
Primary completion
2024-03-26
Completion
2028-01-01
First posted
2024-04-08
Last updated
2024-04-08

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Sweden

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov record NCT06351618. Inclusion in this directory is not an endorsement.