Training for Injury Prevention in Collegiate Soccer Players

University of Mississippi

Status: Completed

Conditions: Athletic Injuries

Treatments: Other: Intervention

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03594669

17-0232

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this research project is to evaluate the effectiveness of an injury prevention intervention for collegiate soccer players.

Full description

The purpose of this research project is to evaluate the effectiveness of an injury prevention intervention for collegiate soccer players. The hypothesis is that measures of sensorimotor control will improve and injury incidence rate will decrease after participation in an intervention aimed at restoration/refinement of sensorimotor control. This study will be conducted as a 1-arm intervention with pre- and post-participation measurement of sensorimotor control and completion of an exercise intervention. Statistical analyses will be completed to determine within group change pre-to post-intervention and injury risk by comparing injury rate in 2018 to injury rate of a historical control.

Enrollment: 75 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Male and female athletes on the soccer roster who are eligible to play in the fall 2018 season at Mississippi College

Exclusion criteria

• Any athlete who has a current diagnosis of concussion (i.e. a non-medically cleared concussion), lower-extremity musculoskeletal injury, or other medical diagnosis that will prevent the athlete from participation in the intervention.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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75 participants in 1 patient group

Intervention

Experimental group

Description:

When enrolled into the study, the participants will be asked to join a group in WhatsApp for purposes of the research study. The application will be used to: deliver reminders for each treatment session; deliver daily prompts for the home exercise program; and present a web-link to the home exercise program (HEP). Participants will receive physical therapist delivered multi-modal sensorimotor training interventions. 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 8 sessions over 4 weeks.

Treatment:

Other: Intervention