Clinical trial NCT04228848: New Triple Hop Test Quality Assessment Tool
Official title: Examination of New Triple Hop Test Assessment Tool for Adults and Adolescents, Healthy and After Anterior Cruciate Ligament Injury
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: ACL Injury
Lead sponsor: University of Haifa
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2020-01-14
Enrollment: 60
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 12
Maximum age (years): 45
Standard ages: CHILD
ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: NON_RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Intervention model description: 4 subgroups performing jump test
Primary purpose: SCREENING

Brief summary: This study will develop a new jump assessment tool for the Triple Hop Test, and will test its reliability on adolescent and adult, healthy and post- anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) population.

Creating a new assessment test for a jump test that incorporates the known movement components that are important after an ACL injury can improve patient evaluation, decision for return to sport activity and injury prevention.

Detailed description: Study population- Adults, women and men aged 20-45, boys and girls aged 12-15. uninjured population: non symptomatic subjects, without major injury in their history. Injured population: ACL injured subjects, 9-12 month after beginning of treatment/surgery.

Stages of study:

stage 1- The investigators will create a new high-quality literature-based assessment test for the triple hop test (NTHT). The test will have 10 sections, its score ranges from 0 to 14 points and a high score means poor performance.

Stage 2- Performing reliability tests between and within the testers for NTHT. The tests will be done with the help of video photography of NTHT.

Stage 3- Performing NTHT and THT tests on healthy adult and adolescent subjects and on ACL adult and adolescent subjects, assessing the NTHT by watching video performance.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria uninjured population:

* non symptomatic subjects
* without major injury in their history.

Inclusion Criteria injured population:

* ACL injured subjects
* 9-12 month after beginning of treatment/surgery.

Exclusion Criteria uninjured population:

* acute pain
* knee instability symptoms
* history of lower leg injury
* unable to jump on one leg
* knee ligament injury.

Exclusion Criteria Injured population:

* late in rehabilitation program
* unable to jump or run
* instability symptoms.

Primary outcomes:
measure: New triple hop test score
timeFrame: baseline
measure: triple hop test
timeFrame: baseline
measure: muscle strength
timeFrame: baseline
Secondary outcomes:
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Haifa
country: Israel
facility: Haifa University, Department of PHysical Therapy
Study officials:
affiliation: University of Haifa
name: Gali Dar, PhD
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
References:
citation: Graziano J, Chiaia T, de Mille P, Nawabi DH, Green DW, Cordasco FA. Return to Sport for Skeletally Immature Athletes After ACL Reconstruction: Preventing a Second Injury Using a Quality of Movement Assessment and Quantitative Measures to Address Modifiable Risk Factors. Orthop J Sports Med. 2017 Apr 20;5(4):2325967117700599. doi: 10.1177/2325967117700599. eCollection 2017 Apr.
citation: Dekker TJ, Godin JA, Dale KM, Garrett WE, Taylor DC, Riboh JC. Return to Sport After Pediatric Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction and Its Effect on Subsequent Anterior Cruciate Ligament Injury. J Bone Joint Surg Am. 2017 Jun 7;99(11):897-904. doi: 10.2106/JBJS.16.00758.