Advanced Footwear Technology in Federated Athletes

University of Oviedo

Status: Not yet enrolling

Conditions: Athlete Foot

Treatments: Other: Survey of athletes

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06919107

ATL-foot

Details and patient eligibility

About

Background. Athletics is one of the sports modalities with the greatest growth in the number of federative licenses in our country. In the last five years, the use of footwear with Advanced Footwear Technology (AFT) has become widespread in order to increase athletic performance.

Objective. To analyze the risk of injury in athletes using Advanced Footwear Technology as well as the sporting, sociodemographic and anthropometric variables that influence this risk.

Method. Ambispective cohort study. Ninety-five athletes competing in events longer than 800 meters will be recruited. The primary variable will be the number of injuries, muscular and tendon, of lower limbs in the last 3 athletic seasons. Secondary and modifying variables will be: age, sex, weekly training load with and without AFT, weekly training frequency, completion of a complementary toning program and foot size. Potential confounding variables will be body mass index, main training surface and commercial footwear models used. The analysis will calculate the risk of injury in these athletes and assess the influence of confounders and trend analysis on the primary variable, stratified by potential confounders.

Expected results. To calculate the risk of injury as a function of sport, sociodemographic and anthropometric variables. Identify

Enrollment: 95 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 30 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Athletes competing in events longer than 800 meters; iii) athletes who have not undergone previous musculoskeletal surgery in the seasons under study.
• Federated in the Federación de Atletismo del Principado de Asturias (Asturias Athletics Federation).
• Athletes who have not undergone previous musculoskeletal surgery in the seasons under study.
• Who were federated at least one year before the study period.

Exclusion criteria

• Athletes who do not use AFT devices.
• Athletes with a muscle or tendon injury at the time of the study.

Trial design

95 participants in 1 patient group

Athletes using advanced footwear technology

Description:

Athletes competing in events longer than 800 meters, federated in the Athletics Federation of the Principality of Asturias and using shoes with Advanced Footwear Technology. Data will be collected on the number of injuries (muscle and tendon), lower limb injuries in the last 3 athletic seasons, as well as age, sex, weekly training load with and without AFT, weekly training frequency, completion of a complementary toning program and foot size

Treatment:

Other: Survey of athletes