Clinical trial NCT03870321: Core Training to Improve Abdominal Strength Strength and Ankle Proprioception in Basketball Players
Official title: Efficacy of Core Training to Improve Abdominal Strength Strength and Analyze Whether it Provides Improvement in Ankle Proprioception in Federated Basketball Players From 18 to 40 Years: A Pilot Study
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Proprioceptive Disorders
Keywords: Core
Strength
Proprioception
Ankle
Basketball
Lead sponsor: Investigación en Hemofilia y Fisioterapia
Sponsor class: NETWORK
First posted: 2019-03-12
Enrollment: 30
Sex: MALE
Minimum age (years): 18
Maximum age (years): 40
Standard ages: ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Primary purpose: PREVENTION

Brief summary: Introduction. The prevalence of ankle injuries in basketball are high. The lack of balance in the ankle is one of the main causes that produces these injuries. The goal of core training is to increase the physical capacities of resistance strength in the abdomen and analyze if it produces improvement in proprioception in the ankle joint in basketball players.

Objective. To evaluate the effectiveness of Core training to improve the strength of the abdomen and analyze if it produces improvement in proprioception in ankle of basketball players.

Study design. Randomized, multicentric, single-blind clinical study with a follow-up period.

Methods. The 30 participants recruited will be randomly assigned to the two study groups: experimental (Core training for strength in the abdomen) and control (without intervention). The treatment will last 4 weeks, with 3 weekly sessions, approximately 20 minutes each. There will be three evaluations (pre-intervention, post-intervention and follow-up). On the dependent variables: strength core resistance (evaluated with Trunk Flexor Test, Trunk Extender Test, and Side Bridge Test) and proprioception (measured with the Star Excursion Balance tests and Romberg test) With the Kolmogorov Smirnov statistical test we will calculate the normality and with the t-student test of paired data and an ANOVA of repeated measures, we will obtain the difference between the three evaluations and the intra and intersubject effect, respectively.

Expected results. To observe improvement in strength in the abdomen and analyze if it produces improvement in proprioception in the ankle of basketball players.


Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Basketball players
* Federated in the Community of Madrid
* Male
* With an age range of 18 to 40 years.

Exclusion Criteria:

* Who have a musculoskeletal injury at the time of the study or who have suffered a lower limb injury in a period of three months before the study
* That they are in an individualized personal training
* Not signed the informed consent document.

Primary outcomes:
measure: Change from baseline ankle proprioception after intervention and at month
timeFrame: Screening visit, within the first seven days after treatment and after one month follow-up visit
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Change from baseline strength of the flexor muscles of the abdomen after intervention and at month
timeFrame: Screening visit, within the first seven days after treatment and after one month follow-up visit
measure: Change from baseline strength of the extensor muscles of the abdomen after intervention and at month
timeFrame: Screening visit, within the first seven days after treatment and after one month follow-up visit
measure: Change from baseline strength of the lateral flexor muscles of the abdomen after intervention and at month
timeFrame: Screening visit, within the first seven days after treatment and after one month follow-up visit
measure: Change from baseline ankle proprioception after intervention and at month
timeFrame: Screening visit, within the first seven days after treatment and after one month follow-up visit
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Madrid
country: Spain
facility: Universidad Europea de Madrid
state: Comunity Of Madrid
Study officials:
affiliation: Universidad Europea de Madrid
name: Rubén Cuesta-Barriuso, PhD
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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