Total Genotype Score, Growth, Maturation and Loading Exposure as Risk Factors for Injury in Elite Male Youth Football

St Mary's University College

Status: Completed

Conditions: Muscle Strain; Apophysitis; Genetic Predisposition; Fractures in Children; Ligament Injury; Tendon Injuries

Treatments: Genetic: Total Genotype Risk Score

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05220969

SMEC_2019-20_003

Details and patient eligibility

About

A total genotype risk score was generated based on the findings of previous research for non-contact injury, non-contact muscle injury, tendon injury, ligament injury, fracture injury and apophysitis injury. This score was then compared with the incidence of injury between those with high, medium and low risk scores for each injury. The influence of different rates of growth, stages of physical maturation and loading exposure were then also included in the risk model to see if any interaction effects could be observed between genetic risk score and susceptibility to injury in different categories of growth, maturation and loading exposure.

Enrollment: 95 patients

Sex: Male

Ages: 12 to 40 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Elite male football players

Exclusion criteria

• Female
• non-elite

Trial design

95 participants in 1 patient group

Elite male youth footballers

Description:

Elite male youth footballers at an English championship / premier league football club

Treatment:

Genetic: Total Genotype Risk Score