Effects of a Foot Strengthening Program on the Incidence of Injuries, Foot Functionality and Health in Long Distance Runners: a Randomized Controlled Trial.
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 状态
- 已完成
- 入组人数
- 118
- 试验地点
- 2
- 主要终点
- Number of Participants With Running Related Lower Limb Injuries
研究概览
简要总结
The main objective of this trial is to investigate the effects of a training protocol for the foot and ankle complex on the prevalence of running related injuries on long distance runners.
详细描述
Using a web software as a follow up tool, subjects can be scanned for injuries and have them confirmed by a physician, determining the injuries prevalence in one year.
Through force platform and infrared cameras, the kinematics and kinetics during gait will allow assessment of joint moments, power during propulsion, ankle and knee range of motion.
The hypothesis is that a strengthening program for foot and ankle muscles can alter the prevalence of lower limbs injuries on long distance runners, lowering the harmful forces that these segments receive. The participants will be randomly assigned into control group (placebo intervention) or into intervention group, that will receive an 8 weeks strengthening intervention, twice a week with the supervision of a physiotherapist and three times a week being remotely supervised by a software at home, for 30 minutes each session. This will aim for increasing foot and ankle range of movement and muscle strength.
Every exercise has its own progression depending on the subjects execution, increasing in intensity and difficulty.
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
- Single (Investigator)
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 18 Years 至 55 Years（Adult）
- 性别
- All
- 接受健康志愿者
- 是
入选标准
- •practice long distance (more than 5 km) running for at least one year;
- •run at least 20 km a week;
排除标准
- •run using minimalist shoes or barefoot;
- •having prior experience in isolated foot and ankle strength training within the last year;
- •have any health condition that affect gait and running;
- •being receiving any physical therapy intervention;
- •having any running related injuries during the last two months.
结局指标
主要结局
Number of Participants With Running Related Lower Limb Injuries
时间窗: 1 year
Diagnosed running related lower limb injuries in recreational runners within 12 months of the study
次要结局
- Vertical Loading Rate Force During Running(2 months)
- Toes and Hallux Muscle Strength(2 months)
- Foot and Ankle Running Kinematics(2 months)
- Foot Health and Functionality(2 months)
- Foot Eversion During Running(2 months)
- Time to the First Injury(12 months)
- Foot Inversion During Running(2 months)
- Foot Muscles Hypertrophy (Volume)(2 months)
- Ground Reaction Forces During Running(2 months)
研究者
Isabel de Camargo Neves Sacco
Associate Professor
University of Sao Paulo General Hospital