Effectiveness of Proprioceptive Exercises in Warm-up or Cool-down on Knee Injuries Prevention in Youthful Soccer Players.
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 发起方
- 入组人数
- 36
- 试验地点
- 2
- 主要终点
- Y Balance Test
研究概览
简要总结
SUMMARY Contextualization The knee is one of the joints that has more injuries reports in men's soccer. Nowadays there are different injury prevention protocols, but none of them specifically focus on the knee joint. Numerous studies have shown that proprioceptive work is more effective than traditional protocols.
Objective This study aims to test the effects of a proprioceptive exercise program included as part of warm-up or cool-down in preventing knee injuries and muscle performance in youth soccer players Methodology This is a quasi-experimental study with three intervention groups. One group will be control, another group will be experimental with the intervention in the warm-up phase, and another one experimental group with the intervention in the cool-down phase. The independent variable will be the proprioceptive exercises, the dependent variables will be the dynamic balance measured with the Y Balance Test, and the muscular performance measured with Counter Movement Jump and the 40m sprint. The confounding variables will be age, height, weight, and body mass index (BMI).
详细描述
Soccer is a high intensity sport, characterized by continuous changes of direction and high load unipodal actions, which generates high levels of stress in the lower limbs, particularly in the knees . Consequently, there is a high rate of lower limb injury in men's soccer, with the knee being one of the most frequent injured joint, with an average of 14% of injury records.
There are varied preventive strategies for this type of injury which are usually included in the warm-up. Popular protocols like FIFA 11+, HarmonKnee, Elis and Rosembaum, Prevent Injury and Enhance Performance Program, include strength exercises, stretching, balance and plyometry; and other protocols focus exclusively on plyometric exercises or strength exercises in soccer.
The results of these protocols usually show proprioception as one of the factors to be improved since it has been observed that it is a determining element in the prevention of injuries. Loss of proprioception has been shown to compromise motor and postural control.
Warm-up can benefit proprioception, stability and, thus, injury prevention. There are several recent studies showing that warm-up programs focused on proprioception are more successful at preventing injuries than traditional warm-ups in athletes.
On the other hand, current protocols, such as those proposed by the FIFA Medical and Research Center (F-MARC) and Hubscher, demand to study in a more isolated way which components of these programs are the most effective.
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Interventional
- 分配方式
- Randomized
- 干预模型
- Parallel
- 主要目的
- Prevention
- 盲法
- None
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 16 Years 至 18 Years（Child, Adult）
- 性别
- Male
- 接受健康志愿者
- 是
入选标准
- •belong to a soccer club, belong to the category of men's youth soccer,
- •Not having suffered any musculoskeletal injury to the lower limb during the previous 6 months to the start of the intervention
排除标准
- •suffering a neurological condition,
- •suffering severe hearing or visual conditions or performing proprioceptive exercises as part of the warm-up or calm down prior to the investigation
结局指标
主要结局
Y Balance Test
时间窗: 4 weeks post-intervention
Dynamic balance has been tested using Y Balance Test
次要结局
- counter movement jump(4 weeks post-intervention)
研究者
Ramón Jiménez Gómez del Pulgar
Physiotherapist
University of Alcala