Pain Education Program in the Sport Population

University of the Balearic Islands

Status: Completed

Conditions: Sports; Education; Pain

Treatments: Behavioral: Self-care education program; Behavioral: Pain neuroscience education program

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05645562

280CER22

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study is designed to evaluate the effects of a pain neuroscience education program in pain perception, wellness and pain catastrophizing of youth athletes. For this, an experimental study with an intervention group (IG) and a control group (CG) is designed. During 12 weeks of the 2022-2023 season, CG will receive a self-care education program, with information about health habits in the sport (rest, nutrition, body care and recovery). Meanwhile, IG will also receive a pain neuroscience education program, with information about biological, psychological and perceptual aspect of pain in the sports context. The study will be developed in the Sport High Performance Centre of Balearic Islands, from January to May. All athletes from this sports centre will be invited to participate in the study throughout an e-mail invitation from their sport regional federation. Prior to the beginning of the study, all participants will sign the inform consent. The Ethical Committee of the local university approved this study (280CER22). One week before intervention period, all athletes will be required to complete questionnaire about sociodemographic and sportive data (age, sex, and sport experience). Body mass and height will be also evaluated. Also, all the athletes will be required to complete three questionnaires about pain level, wellness and pain catastrophizing. Pain level and wellness will be evaluated prior to the start of the intervention and weekly, until finishing the intervention period. The pain catastrophizing level will be evaluated before and after the intervention period of the study. We hypothesized that those athletes who receive the pain neuroscience education program will increase wellness and decrease pain level and catastrophizing perception compared to those athletes who received a self-care educational program.

Enrollment: 40 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 14 to 18 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• to have at least 14 years old
• to have at least 2 years of experience in the sport

Exclusion criteria

• to have sustained an injury during the previous 6 months to start of the study
• to have sustained a surgery during the previous 12 months to start of the study

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Double Blind

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40 participants in 2 patient groups

Intervention group

Experimental group

Description:

Intervention group will receive a pain neuroscience education program (once time per month, during 4 months). This program will include information about biological, psychological and perceptual aspects of pain in the sport context.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Pain neuroscience education program

Control group

Active Comparator group

Description:

The control group will receive a self-care education program (once time per month, during 4 months). This program will include information about health habits in the sport.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Self-care education program