Clinical trial NCT05711069: Core Stabilization Programme on Kicking Velocity and Performance in Male Adolescent Football Players
Official title: The Effect of Core Stabilization Exercise Program on Kicking Velocity, Sprint Speed and Agility Performance in Male Adolescent Football Players
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Soccer
Core Stability
Sports Performance
Keywords: Exercise
Core Stability
Kicking velocity
Run Speed
Agility
Lead sponsor: Hacettepe University
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2023-02-02
Enrollment: 45
Sex: MALE
Minimum age (years): 12
Maximum age (years): 14
Standard ages: CHILD
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: NON_RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Primary purpose: OTHER

Brief summary: Core stability is an important component maximising efficient athletic function. Function is most often produced by the kinetic chain, the coordinate sequenced activation of body segments that places the distal segment in the optimum position at the optimum velocity with the optimum timing to produce the desired athletic task. Speed and power are critical performance factors in football. Football including jumping, kicking, tackling, turning, sprinting, changing pace, and sustaining forceful contractions to maintain balance and control of the ball against defensive pressure. In the literature, no study has demonstrated the effectiveness of core stability exercise program in adolescent football players.The aim of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of core stabilization exercise program on adolescent male football players.

Detailed description: Core stability is an important component maximising efficient athletic function. Function is most often produced by the kinetic chain, the coordinate sequenced activation of body segments that places the distal segment in the optimum position at the optimum velocity with the optimum timing to produce the desired athletic task. The importance of core stability for injury prevention and performance enhancement has been popularized during the past decades. Up to date, core muscle strengthening plays an important role in different prevention programs, such as the "FIFA 11 +". Football is considered a high-intensity intermittent sport requiring high levels of physical fitness related to the ability to perform powerful actions, with a varied range of activities that involve both breaking and propulsive forces as well as distinct contraction modes and velocities. Speed and power are critical performance factors in football. Football including jumping, kicking, tackling, turning, sprinting, changing pace, and sustaining forceful contractions to maintain balance and control of the ball against defensive pressure. Kicking is one of the most fundamental and frequently used skills in soccer and its motion consists of several stages as follows: (1) the withdrawal of the thigh and shank (backswing); (2) the forward rotation of the thigh and shank, which occurs as a result of hip flexion; (3) the reduction of thigh angular velocity, with a corresponding increase in shank angular velocity up to impact with the ball; and (4) the follow-through. Football is seen as highly intensive sport with an increased injury rate. In adolescent football players, muscle-tendon unit adaptation is effecting by athletic performance. The mechanic loading on this unit results increase risk of lower extremity injuries. In the literature, no study has demonstrated the effectiveness of core stability exercise program in adolescent football players.The aim of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of core stabilization exercise program on adolescent male football players.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Subjects who are not get any operation related with lower extremity and spine in last 6 months.
* Subjects who are voluntary to participate in the study and get informed consent form from legal representative.
* Subjects who attend in football training regularly.

Exclusion Criteria:

* Current pain in lower extremity and spine.
* Subjects who have discontinuity in training program or exercise program more than 3 times.
* Subjects who have difficulty to apply exercise program.

Primary outcomes:
measure: Kicking Velocity Measurement
timeFrame: Measurement will repeat three times in 2 minutes intervals and the mean value will be taken. Baseline and 8 Weeks reported.
measure: Run Speed Measurement
timeFrame: Measurement will repeat three times in 2 minutes intervals and mean value will be taken. Baseline and 8 Weeks reported.
measure: Agility Measurement
timeFrame: Measurements will repeat three times in 2 minutes intervals and mean value will be taken. Baseline and 8 Weeks reported.
Secondary outcomes:
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Nicosia
country: Cyprus
facility: Fizyo osteopati Fizik Tedavi ve Sağlıklı Yaşam Merkezi
state: Lefkoşa
Study officials:
affiliation: Hacettepe University
name: Volga Bayrakcı Tunay, Prof
role: STUDY_DIRECTOR
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