Clinical trial NCT03309904: Sport Without Injury ProgrammE Floorball
Official title: Sport Without Injury ProgrammE Floorball
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Athletic Injuries
Lead sponsor: Linkoeping University
Sponsor class: OTHER_GOV
First posted: 2017-10-16
Enrollment: 910
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 12
Maximum age (years): 17
Standard ages: CHILD
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Intervention model description: Parallell group cluster-randomized trial
Primary purpose: PREVENTION

Brief summary: This study evaluates the preventive effect of a neuromuscular training program on injuries in youth floorball players. Half of participants will receive the training program, and half act as control and perform their usual training practices.

Detailed description: The study is a cluster-randomized controlled trial including male and female youth (12-17 years) floorball players. Club is used as cluster unit.

Coaches in the intervention group receive education of the preventive neuromuscular training program Knee Control (Knäkontroll) before the start of the season. Knee Control consists of 6 different exercises, with 4 different variations and 1 pair-exercise, and takes about 10 minutes to complete. In addition, coaches are instructed to perform a 5-minute running warm-up before the Knee Control exercises. Teams are to carry out the intervention at all training sessions, and the 5-minute warm-up also before all matches.

Coaches in the control group carry on their normal training and warm-up routines with their clubs.

Teams are followed for one full season: October 2017 - March 2018. Data registered for the study include exposure to floorball training and matches, and injuries that occur as a result of participation in floorball.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Teams with players 12-17 years of age (born 2000-2005)
* Teams who have not used a structured training program aiming to prevent injuries (the Knee Control or similar program) on a regular basis the last year
* Teams who have training at least twice per week

Exclusion Criteria:

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Primary outcomes:
measure: All physical complaints injury
timeFrame: Study start up to end of season (6 months)
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Time-loss injury
timeFrame: Study start up to end of season (6 months)
measure: Medical attention injury
timeFrame: Study start up to end of season (6 months)
measure: Adverse events
timeFrame: Study start up to end of season (6 months)
measure: Intervention compliance and fidelity
timeFrame: Study start up to end of season (6 months)
measure: Coach experience of injuries and intervention program
timeFrame: Baseline and 6 months
measure: Player experience of injuries and intervention program
timeFrame: Baseline and 6 months
measure: Exercise fidelity
timeFrame: At approximately 2 months and 5 months
measure: Health care need
timeFrame: After study end at 6 months
measure: Costs
timeFrame: After study end at 6 months
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Linköping
country: Sweden
facility: Linköping University
Study officials:
affiliation: Linkoeping University
name: Martin Hägglund, PhD
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
References:
citation: Perera NKP, Walden M, Lindblom H, Akerlund I, Sonesson S, Hagglund M. Illness prevalence and symptoms in youth floorball players: a one-season prospective cohort study involving 471 players. BMJ Open. 2021 Dec 14;11(12):e051902. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2021-051902.
citation: Akerlund I, Walden M, Sonesson S, Hagglund M. Forty-five per cent lower acute injury incidence but no effect on overuse injury prevalence in youth floorball players (aged 12-17 years) who used an injury prevention exercise programme: two-armed parallel-group cluster randomised controlled trial. Br J Sports Med. 2020 Sep;54(17):1028-1035. doi: 10.1136/bjsports-2019-101295. Epub 2020 Jan 28.