Isometric Abdominal and Specific Gluteus Medius Work in Soccer Players (COREGLUTFEM)

Real Fundación Victoria Eugenia

Status

Completed

Conditions

Young Soccer Players

Treatments

Other: Control group

Other: Experimental group

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT03617887

COREGLUTFEM

Details and patient eligibility

About

The problems of lack of lumbo-pelvic stability, as well as weakness or mobile restriction of the adductor muscles, may be the origin of lower limb injuries. Both intrinsic and extrinsic factors are key in the probability of suffering an imbalance. A protocol of abdominal isometric strength, accompanied by specific exercises of the gluteus medius, can be useful in order to prevent such dysfunctions.

The objective is to compare the efficacy of abdominal isometric work against the specific work of gluteus medius in the improvement of lumbo-pelvic stability and strength and elasticity of the adductor muscles.

Study design. Randomized, longitudinal, experimental, prospective, multicentre and single-blind clinical trial. It will take place at the facilities of the Soccer Club Fuenlabrada S. A. D. and the European University of Madrid.

The subjects will be randomly divided into two groups: control group and experimental group. The intervention period will last eight weeks, performing 2 weekly sessions, of approximately 20 minutes (depending on the group to which each subject belongs). The variables to be evaluated before and after the intervention will be the lumbo-pelvic stability and the strength and elasticity of the adductor muscles. For the statistical analysis, the SPSS program version 19.0 will be used.

It is expected to find how gluteal work produces improvements in lumbo-pelvic stability, as well as an increase in strength and adduction elasticity.

Full description

Each session will last 20 minutes, taking place during 2 days a week, in a period of 8 weeks. The intervention will be carried out at the beginning of the training session. This intervention consists of an abdominal work protocol, and a gluteal work protocol added to the previous protocol, performed by the control group and the experimental group, respectively.

Enrollment

25 patients

Sex

Female

Ages

18 to 35 years old

Volunteers

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Age between 18 and 35 years
Federated in the Royal Football Federation of Madrid currently and with a minimum of 4 years
Without any previous pathology or during the experimental period
Signed the informed consent

Exclusion criteria

Not have current or previous pathology in any region of the lower limb during the last 6 months
Inability or inability to comply with the demands of the study in terms of follow-up or problems of involvement
Players under pharmacological treatment or exercising a physiotherapy treatment parallel to the development of the study