Prevention of Lateral Epicondylalgia in Handgun Olympic Shooting Athletes

University of Valencia

Status

Completed

Conditions

Epicondylitis, Lateral

Treatments

Other: Exercise and stretching programe

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT06494332

NB01

Details and patient eligibility

About

Lateral epicondylalgia is one of the most common pathologies suffered by Olympic gun shooting athletes. In Spain, there is hardly any research carried out in this sport, so there are no injury prevention protocols available. Preventing these injuries would be fundamental to improve the performance of athletes and to be able to continue adding successes to national honors.

It has also been evidenced that if exercise is combined with stretching, the benefits of physical therapy are increased. High-quality studies have stated that it is not necessary for this exercise protocol combined with stretching to be very prolonged over time, as they affirm that significant improvements can be achieved with only four weeks of exercise.

This study aimed to test the hypothesis that Olympic handgun shooting athletes who perform a four-week multimodal exercise program combined with stretching have a lower risk of suffering from lateral epicondylalgia than athletes who do not perform this program, determining its effectiveness for pain prevention.

Enrollment

61 patients

Sex

All

Ages

35+ years old

Volunteers

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Adults aged >35 years
Present a risk of suffering from lateral epicondylalgia
Be in possession of a federation Olympic shooting license
Practice Olympic shooting with handgun and carry out at least one Olympic shooting training session a week or have participated in the last three months in an official competition

Exclusion criteria

Subjects who had serious uncontrolled illnesses
Who had undergone surgery as a treatment for lateral epicondylalgia
Who had received treatment for lateral epicondylalgia in the last month or injections of corticosteroids or steroids for this pathology in the last 6 months
Who had suffered a serious upper limb injury in the last year or present a risk of suffering epicondylalgia due to a cause other than Olympic shooting