NCT06494332

Prevention of Lateral Epicondylalgia in Handgun Olympic Shooting Athletes

Effect of Exercise Combined With Stretching Program to Prevent Lateral Epicondylalgia in Handgun Olympic Shooting Athletes: a Randomized Controlled Trial

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 61 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Valencia · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 35 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

Lateral epicondylalgia is one of the most common pathologies suffered by Olympic gun shooting athletes. In Spain, there is hardly any research carried out in this sport, so there are no injury prevention protocols available. Preventing these injuries would be fundamental to improve the performance of athletes and to be able to continue adding successes to national honors. It has also been evidenced that if exercise is combined with stretching, the benefits of physical therapy are increased. High-quality studies have stated that it is not necessary for this exercise protocol combined with stretching to be very prolonged over time, as they affirm that significant improvements can be achieved with only four weeks of exercise. This study aimed to test the hypothesis that Olympic handgun shooting athletes who perform a four-week multimodal exercise program combined with stretching have a lower risk of suffering from lateral epicondylalgia than athletes who do not perform this program, determining its effectiveness for pain prevention.

Conditions

• Epicondylitis, Lateral

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Exercise and stretching programe	It consists in: a serie of mobility exercises, which were used as warp-up; the mobility of the elbow, forearm, wrist and fingers of both upper limbs was worked on; and, exercises were performed to strengthen the muscles of both forearms.

Timeline

• Start date: 2024-07-01
• Primary completion: 2024-08-31
• Completion: 2024-09-30
• First posted: 2024-07-10
• Last updated: 2024-10-18

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Spain