Sensorimotor Training for Injury Prevention in Collegiate Soccer Players II

University of Mississippi

Status: Completed

Conditions: Sport Injury; Concussion, Mild

Treatments: Other: Virtual Reality Sensorimotor Training

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04036916

2019-0157

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this project is to evaluate the effectiveness of an injury prevention intervention delivered primarily using headset virtual reality for collegiate soccer players. The hypothesis is that measures of sensorimotor control will improve, injury incidence rate will decrease and on-field soccer performance will improve.

Enrollment: 130 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Male and female athletes
• 18 years of age or older
• on the soccer roster who are eligible to play in the fall 2019 season at the participating institutions.

Exclusion criteria

• Current diagnosis of concussion (i.e. a non-medically cleared concussion)
• Current lower-extremity musculoskeletal injury,
• Seizure disorder with photo sensitivity
• Other medical diagnosis that will prevent participation in the intervention.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Non-Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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130 participants in 2 patient groups

Virtual Reality Training (Experimental)

Experimental group

Description:

Participants will receive multi-modal sensorimotor training interventions, including activities training the vestibular system, oculomotor control and visual perception, neuromotor control and strengthening of the cervical spine, postural control/ balance exercises, and exercises integrating the use of multiple types of sensory information for controlled motor output, including speed and accuracy. Novel headset virtual reality (VR) games/activities; compliant balance surfaces; resistance bands/weight; and biofeedback devices will be utilized to deliver the training intervention. The exercises delivered at each intervention will be delivered in a group format, using a circuit of exercises that each athlete will complete in a session. Subsequent sessions will build upon previous sessions to work the sensorimotor control system in progressively more challenging and sport-specific scenarios. This present study will complete 12 sessions over 6 weeks.

Treatment:

Other: Virtual Reality Sensorimotor Training

No Virtual Reality Training (Control)

No Intervention group

Description:

True control.