Fitness- and Health-related Effects of a Sports Injury Prevention Program in Competitive Alpine Skiers

Balgrist University Hospital2 个研究点分布在 1 个国家目标入组 129 人开始时间: 2017年10月1日最近更新: 2023年3月3日

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试验速览

阶段: 不适用
状态: 已完成
发起方
入组人数: 129
试验地点: 2
主要终点: Change from baseline to 12 months axis-stability

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研究概览

简要总结

Overall Goal: Elaboration of an evidence-based, national prevention strategy to protect the health of competitive alpine skiers, with a particular focus on youth athletes.

Background: Competitive alpine skiing has a relatively high injury risk. 60% of all athletes suffer from a severe knee injury in the early stages of their career, and 20% struggle with recurrent overuse problems of the knee and lower back.

Research Aims: (1) to investigate the effects of a 12-month sports injury prevention program on training attitudes, eccentric hamstring strength, leg axis-/hip-/core-stability and general fitness in competitive alpine skiers; (2) to assess the effectiveness the aforementioned prevention program to lower the occurring health problems in competitive alpine skiers; (3) to identify different pain conditions (knee, back, no pain) based on data measured with smartphones; and (4) to investigate the agreement of self-reported questionnaire data with measured smartphone data and pain as an affecting factor.

Methods: 12-month intervention a sports injury prevention program, a prospective health- and training/activity-monitoring, as well as assessments of eccentric hamstring strength, leg axis/hip/core stability and general fitness at baseline and follow-up.

详细描述

The primary objectives of this study are:

to investigate the effects of a sports injury prevention program on train-ing attitudes, eccentric hamstring strength, leg axis-/hip-/core-stability and general fitness in competitive alpine skiers;
to assess the effectiveness the prevention program to lower the occur-ring health problems (i.e. traumatic injuries, overuse injuries and illnesses) in competitive alpine skiers.

The secondary objectives of this study are: 3. to investigate the agreement between self-reported questionnaire data with unobtrusively measured smartphone data (i.e. sensor-based activity data) to monitor the prevention program; 4. to identify athletes at risk for developing pain and injury based on digitally acquired data (questionnaires and activity sensor data).

The primary study outcomes are the changes in training attitudes, maximal eccentric hamstring strength, leg axis-/hip-/core-stability, general fitness-related factors and the occurring health problems in competitive youth alpine skiers over a 12-month intervention period. These outcomes are assessed by established methods of strength testing, neuromuscular screening, and load- and health-monitoring.

The secondary outcome is a smartphone enabled training and injury prevention program for skiing athletes.

研究设计

研究类型: Interventional
分配方式: Non Randomized
干预模型: Sequential
主要目的: Prevention
盲法: None

入排标准

年龄范围: 13 Years 至 36 Years（Child, Adult）
性别: All
接受健康志愿者: 是

入选标准

•competitive athletes that are part of a Swiss-Ski development program
•Written informed consent by the participant (or parents)

排除标准

•No written informed consent