Prevention in Volleyball Players

University of Liege

Status: Completed

Conditions: Prevention

Treatments: Other: Prevention exercises

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04892121

Prevention VB

Details and patient eligibility

About

The objective of this study is to assess the interest and the efficiency of a warm-up prevention program on the prevalence of shoulder injuries in amateur volleyball players.

Around ten teams will be included in the study. They will be divided into two groups (blind): an intervention group and a control group.

A warm-up prevention program will implemented in the teams of intervention group. This program will have to be followed twice a week, at the beginning of the training session.

In both groups, shoulder injuries will be registered each month by an online questionnaire.

Full description

Around ten teams will be recruted among the clubs in the Province of Liege. They will be divided into two groups (blind): an intervention group and a control group.

Each month, both groups will be asked to fill in a form with the potential injuries they experienced during the past month.

• Intervention group :

All the teams included in the intervention group will be asked to follow a warm-up prevention program (about 15 minutes) at least twice a week, at the beginning of the training session.

At the beginning of the season, one experimenter will go to the different clubs in order to present the program, to explain the exercises and to correct the players while doint the exercises.

During the season, the same experimenter will go to the clubs at regular intervals to make sure that the players are well doing the program and to assess the compliance.

• Control group :

The objective of the control group is to estimate the prevalence of shoulder injuries in a group without any prevention implementation. The players of this group will jus have to answer the monthly questionnaire about the potential injuries they experienced during the previous month.

Enrollment: 93 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 15 to 35 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• volleyball players in Provincial level (P1-P2)
• practicing volleyball at least 4 hours in a week
• no "prevention routines"

Exclusion criteria

• having a prevention program

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Non-Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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93 participants in 2 patient groups

Intervention group

Experimental group

Description:

The teams in the intervention group will have to follow a warm-up prevention program twice a week

Treatment:

Other: Prevention exercises

Control group

No Intervention group

Description:

The teams in the control group will have to reply each month to a questionnaire about the potential injuries they experienced during the previous month.