Effect of Neuromuscular Warm-up on Injuries in Female Athletes

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Anterior Cruciate Ligament Injuries; Lower Extremity Injuries; Knee Injuries; Ankle Injuries
• Interventions: Other: neuromuscular warm-up

• Registration Number: NCT01092286
• Lead Sponsor: Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago

Brief Summary

The goal of the study is to determine effect of coach-led neuromuscular warm-up on non-contact, lower extremity (LE) injury rates among female athletes in a predominantly non-white public high school system. The investigators hypothesized the warm-up would reduce non-contact LE injuries.

Detailed Description

We will recruit basketball and soccer coaches and their athletes from Chicago public high schools. We will randomize teams to intervention and control groups. We will train intervention coaches to implement a 20-minute neuromuscular warm-up and tracked training costs. Control coaches will use their usual warm-up. All coaches will report weekly athlete exposures (AEs) and injuries resulting in a missed practice/game. Research assistants will interview injured athletes. We will compare injury rates between control and intervention groups.

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2006-07
• Primary Completion: 2009-07
• Study Completion: 2009-07
• Study First Submitted: 2010-03-23
• Study First Submitted QC: 2010-03-23
• Study First Posted: 2010-03-24
• Status Verified: 2018-01
• Last Update Submitted: 2018-01-23
• Last Update Posted: 2018-01-25

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 1653

Inclusion Criteria

Not provided

Exclusion Criteria

Not provided

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
neuromuscular warm-up	neuromuscular warm-up	coaches in this arm use the prescribed warm-up before team practices

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
lower extremity injury rates	one year

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
coach compliance with warm-up	one year

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago; 🇺🇸 Chicago, Illinois, United States