Injury Prevention Among Conscripts (VASTE)

UKK Institute

Status: Completed

Conditions: Back Problems and Other Musculoskeletal Injuries

Treatments: Other: physical training and counselling

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00595816

UKK VASTE

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this clinical trial is to study the effect of neuromuscular training program and regular safety counselling on the risk of musculoskeletal injuries in adolescent conscripts.

800 voluntary participants are recruited from the four army companies in western Finland during the years 2007 and 2008.

Enrollment: 800 estimated patients

Sex: Male

Ages: 18 to 30 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• healthy conscripts who gave informed consent for participation

Exclusion criteria

• disease or injury preventing physical training

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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800 participants in 1 patient group

1

Experimental group

Description:

Active treatment: physical training and counselling

Treatment:

Other: physical training and counselling