Shoulder Profile Among Swimmers and Badminton Players (SPASB)

Caen University Hospital

Status: Completed

Conditions: Shoulder Injuries; Sport Injury

Treatments: Other: Shoulder clinical testing with isokinetic strength assessment

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04641520

SPASB

Details and patient eligibility

About

Background: To compare the pre-season clinical measures with shoulder rotator strength and range of motion between bilateral (swimmers) and unilateral (badminton players) overhead athletes. Design: Prospective cohort study Participants: 42 athletes were enrolled including 24 elite badminton players and 18 elite swimmers Independent variables: A pre-season visit consisted in clinical and isokinetic shoulder strength testing. Clinical testing consisted in the shoulder range of motion (ROM) measurements aIsokinetic internal and external rotator shoulder muscles strength was tested at 60. Conventional and functional (eccentric-to-concentric) ratios (FR) were calculated.

Enrollment: 42 patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• All the elite badminton players from a high-level club and the National Institute of Sport, Expertise, and Performance
• All the elite swimmers a high-level club

Exclusion criteria

• Players who had SSI in the 3 months prior to the isokinetic test or had shoulder surgery