How is Calf Muscle Endurance Related to Ankle Injuries in TeamGym Athletes?
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 状态
- 已完成
- 发起方
- 入组人数
- 107
- 试验地点
- 1
- 主要终点
- New injury
研究概览
简要总结
The specific aims of this study are to:
- describe how many heel raises and side hops TG athletes of various ages can perform and how far they can jump, one leg at a time.
- examine how calf muscle endurance and hop performance are related to the risk of new injuries in the foot, ankle, and lower leg in TG athletes.
The investigators hypothesise that atletes with superior performance in the tests for muscular endurance and hop performance will report fewer injuries during the follow up period.
详细描述
TeamGym (TG) is the most common gymnastics discipline in Sweden. There is a relatively high injury incidence of 2,2-3,4 injuries per 1000 hours of gymnastic activity. Muscular fatigue has been proposed as a risk factor for sustaining an injury in gymnastics, but this has yet not been examined.
In TG, the lower extremity is more susceptible to injuries than the spine and upper extremity, with injury rates ranging between 60 - 77% for the lower extremity. More specifically, the foot, ankle, and the lower leg account for 40 - 56% of all reported injuries, consisting mostly of ankle injuries.
In clinical and research settings, heel raises and side hops are commonly used to assess muscular endurance in the lower leg. Furthermore, it is common to also include a hop performance test to assess the physical capacity of an athlete following an injury to the foot, ankle, or lower leg. However, there are normative values published of the aforementioned tests, in TG athletes
The overall purpose of this project is to facilitate and improve the caretaking of TG athletes who have sustained various types of injuries in the foot, ankle and lower leg.
Specific aims are to:
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Observational
- 观察模型
- Cohort
- 时间视角
- Prospective
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 13 Years 至 —（Child, Adult, Older Adult）
- 性别
- All
- 接受健康志愿者
- 是
入选标准
- •Regular participation in TeamGym training (at least once per week)
- •Understanding written and spoken Swedish
排除标准
- •Recent (defined as: in the last 4 weeks before baseline testing) injury to the foot, ankle, or lower leg = exclusion from hop tests.
- •Presence of other injuries to the lower limb or spine that may be accentuated or affect test results.
结局指标
主要结局
New injury
时间窗: Within six months after baseline testing.
Number of new acute/overuse injuries in the foot, ankle or lower leg.
次要结局
- Severity of overuse injury(Bi-weekly follow-ups over a 6 month period.)
研究者
Susanne Beischer
Principal Investigator
Göteborg University