Effect of Progressive Isolated Core Stability Training

Ankara Yildirim Beyazıt University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Physical Performance; CORE STABILITY; Upper Extremity

Treatments: Other: exercise training

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05205278

LUT 12/57

Details and patient eligibility

About

Forty-two adolescent female volleyball athletes (16.0±1.4 years) were randomly divided into two groups. Group 1 was the training group and, in addition to the routine volleyball training programmes, underwent an 8-week (3 days/week) progressive core stability training programme. Group 2 was the control group and only did routine volleyball training, with no core stability training.

Main outcome measures: Shoulder IR and ER strength, medicine ball throw (MBT), modified push up (MPU) and closed kinetic chain (CKC) upper extremity stability tests were used to evaluate physical performance.

Full description

Most studies have focused on the effects of core stability training on injury prevention and physical performance for the lower extremities . However, little is known about its effect on upper extremity performance. Previous studies suggest that core strengthening could enhance upper extremity physical performance because it might lead to more efficient use of the extremity muscles . Core weakness in overhead athletes with shoulder pain. Insufficient power generation by the core muscles might overload the shoulder girdle to compensate for altered biomechanics during throwing, and this overload made the shoulder prone to sport injuries. A systematic review has suggested, however, that isolated core stability training cannot be the primary component of athletic performance enhancement and that the variability in exercise training protocols, testing methods, study population and sample size among the available studies leads to difficulties in understanding whether or not core stability training enhances physical performance.

There has been no study in the literature investigating the effect of progressive isolated core stability training on upper extremity performance in adolescent overhead athletes. This study therefore sought to investigate the effects of progressive isolated core stability training on shoulder internal (IR) and external rotator (ER) strength and upper extremity physical performance in female adolescent volleyball players. Hypothesized that core stability training would enhance shoulder rotator strength and upper extremity physical performance in these athletes.

Enrollment: 42 patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 12 to 16 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• be between the ages of 12 and 16, enrolled in a similar training program and agree to participate in the study

Exclusion criteria

• Having any surgery / serious pathology of the spinal column,
• Have had a lower / upper extremity injury in the last 3 months,
• Sports age is less than 5 years,
• Severe orthopedic / systemic discomfort during training,
• Absence from training for more than 3 sessions
• Family disapproval or reluctance to study
• Minimal Q-DASH score (0-25)

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Double Blind

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42 participants in 2 patient groups

training group

Experimental group

Description:

Group 1 (n=21) was the training group and, in addition to the routine volleyball training programmes, an 8-week (3 days/week) progressive core stability training programme was applied.

Treatment:

Other: exercise training

control group

No Intervention group

Description:

Group 2 (n=21) was the control group, and they only engaged in routine volleyball training: no core stability training was given.