Preventive Treatment of Groin Pain in Football

University of Genoa (UniGe)

Status: Completed

Conditions: Healthy

Treatments: Other: preventive treatment group

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05713487

GP-DINOGMI-23

Details and patient eligibility

About

Groin pain represents a common issue in football. Currently, there are no prevention protocols demonstrating real effectiveness. We aimed to investigate the possible positive effect of a prevention program for groin pain.Forty-two élite male athletes belonging to a youth academy of a professional football club were recruited in this prospective, randomized, controlled, single-blind, study.

Enrollment: 42 patients

Sex: Male

Ages: 16 to 18 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• subjects between the ages of sixteen and eighteen, belonging to the youth sector of a professional club.

Exclusion criteria

• Presence of pain or injuries at the level of the hip-hip region at the initial assessment.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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42 participants in 2 patient groups

preventive treatment group

Experimental group

Treatment:

Other: preventive treatment group

control group

No Intervention group