Preventing Knee Injuries in Adolescent Female Football Players

Region Skane

Status: Completed

Conditions: Knee Injury

Treatments: Behavioral: Knäkontroll, SISU Idrottsböcker©, Sweden, 2005

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00894595

M197-08

Details and patient eligibility

About

Football-related knee injuries are common and especially the anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injury constitute a serious problem in football regardless of the playing level. The purpose of this study is to conduct a randomized controlled trial evaluating the effect of a training program designed to prevent acute knee injury in female adolescent football players.

The investigators' hypotheses are:

1. a preventive training program reduces the incidence of ACL injury, and
2. a high match frequency and match play at senior level increase the risk of ACL injury.

Enrollment: 4,564 patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 13 to 17 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Teams with female football players aged 13-17 years

Exclusion criteria

• Teams that did not reply to the invitation or declined participation
• Teams having less than two scheduled training sessions per week
• Teams already using the preventive program

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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4,564 participants in 2 patient groups

Intervention group

Experimental group

Description:

The clubs in the intervention group are instructed to perform a warm-up program at two training sessions per week throughout the entire 2009 competitive season.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Knäkontroll, SISU Idrottsböcker©, Sweden, 2005

Control group

Active Comparator group

Description:

The clubs in the control group are instructed to train and play as usual throughout the 2009 season

Treatment:

Behavioral: Knäkontroll, SISU Idrottsböcker©, Sweden, 2005