Prevention of Groin Injuries in Rink Hockey

University of Oviedo

Status: Completed

Conditions: Groin Injury; Adductor Strain; Groin Strain

Treatments: Behavioral: Copenhagen Adduction Exercise

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05994469

UO2023/1

Details and patient eligibility

About

Rink hockey teams from senior category (adults) will be recruited to implement a groin injury prevention program consisting on the Copenhagen Adduction Exercise (CAE) throughout the regular season, 0 times, once or twice per week (september 2023-march 2024)

Weekly team exposure to training sessions and games will be collected as well as cases of groin problems in the entire population

When the season ends, the number of groin problems will be compared between teams that used the prevention program once a week against twice a week or no sessions a week.

Full description

Rink hockey teams will be offered a prevention program consisting on the CAE to be performed during the season.

Teams will decide to implement the protocol once, twice or 0 times per week, depending on their schedule. No formal control group will be set, comparison of injuries will be performed between teams that used +80% of the total possible sessions and -80% (28 weeks equals a potential 42 CAE sessions throughout the season).

On a weekly basis, coaches will be contacted to report number of training sessions, games, and training sessions where they implemented CAE.

Bi-weekly, players will report any episode of groin problems (both leading to time-loss and those only affecting performance while not limiting participation).

Enrollment: 150 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 16 to 45 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• #1 Be part of a rink hockey team competing in senior league (either local (third division/lower) or national (first and second division))

  • 2 Accept participating in the study (signing the informed consent)

Exclusion criteria

• #1 not playing rink hockey in the previous season

  • 2 serious illness, injury or surgery in the previous 6 months that prevented rink hockey participation

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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150 participants in 1 patient group

Copenhagen Adduction Exercise Group

Experimental group

Description:

there is no control group, all teams can implement the intervention protocol that better fits their normal schedule, the intervention can consist of 1 or 2 Copenhagen Adduction Exercise sessions per week

Treatment:

Behavioral: Copenhagen Adduction Exercise