The Association Between Restricted Ankle Joint Dorsiflexion and Dynamic Knee Valgus (TOBROD)

University Rovira i Virgili

Status: Completed

Conditions: Adolescent Development; Knee Injuries; Ankle Injuries and Disorders; Movement, Abnormal

Treatments: Behavioral: Observation

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05500131

123/2018_3

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study was to analyze if a low ankle dorsiflexion range is associate with dynamic knee valgus in youth basketball players.

Full description

Cross-sectional study. Ankle dorsiflexion range of motion was assessed by the Weight-bearing lunge test and the dynamic knee valgus by the Single leg squat test.

The participants were basketball players who belonged to youth basketball de-velopmental teams in the under-12 (U12), under-14 (U14), under-16 (U16) and under-17 (U17) categories. All participants were recruited by means of simple random sampling from the Catalan Basketball Federation during the 2018-2019 season. The participants were classified according to gender and age as stipulated by the rules determined an-nually for the respective official competitions. The study was carried out in the facilities of each club. The inclusion criteria were being age >12 and ≤17 at testing and actively competing during the study. Subjects were excluded if they had sustained any type of injury in the lower limbs before screening; presented any injury (overuse or acute) at the time of testing; if they had any oncological, psychological and/or psychiatric illnesses; or if they did not attend on the day of the assessment.

Enrollment: 791 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 12 to 17 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Being age >12 and ≤17 at testing and actively competing during the study

Exclusion criteria

• Subjects were excluded if they had sustained any type of injury in the lower limbs before screening; presented any injury (overuse or acute) at the time of testing; if they had any oncological, psychological and/or psychiatric illnesses; or if they did not attend on the day of the assessment.

Trial design

791 participants in 1 patient group

Experimental group

Description:

All participants allowed three practice trials for each test in this order: the Weight-bearing lunge test and the Single-leg squat test. Both of them were evaluated through the Leg Motion system (LegMotion, your MOtion®, Albacete, Spain)

Treatment:

Behavioral: Observation