Pain in Competitive Athletes With Physical Disabilities and Techniques for Its Management

Polytechnic University of Madrid (UPM)

Status: Completed

Conditions: Athletic Injuries; Physical Disability; Chronic Pain

Treatments: Other: Qualitative study. Pain in competitive athletes with physical disabilities and techniques for its management.

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05647031

UPMadrid

Details and patient eligibility

About

There are psychosocial factors that affect pain, and therefore, psychological intervention techniques have been added to its usual pharmacological and physiotherapeutic treatment. Despite the abundant evidence that addresses psychosocial factors as clear mediators in the perception of pain, the use of psychological techniques for pain management in competitive athletes, and more especially in competitive athletes with physical disabilities, is scarce. The purpose of this study was to ascertain the perception of high-level competitive athletes with physical disability and sports agents (coaches, physiotherapists and psychologists).

Full description

Qualitative study with in-depth interviews to find out the perception of sports agents (coaches, physiotherapists and psychologists) and athletes on how pain can affect the development of the sports career and to determine what techniques are known and/or implemented by sports agents (coaches, physiotherapists and psychologists) and athletes to manage pain.

Enrollment: 21 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 15 to 55 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

For the athlete:

• Physical disability.
• Participate in high performance competition
• Aged between 15 and 55 years old;

For the sports agents:

• To exercise their profession with high performance athletes with physical disabilities

Exclusion criteria

• Not meeting the above requirements

Trial design

21 participants in 1 patient group

20 participants were interviewed on a voluntary basis

Description:

A total of 20 participants were interviewed on a voluntary basis (7 competitive athletes with 17 physical disabilities, 4 physiotherapists, 5 coaches and 4 psychologists)

Treatment:

Other: Qualitative study. Pain in competitive athletes with physical disabilities and techniques for its management.