Clinical trial NCT06557577: Comparing an Adductor Fatigue Strength Test with Handheld Dynamometry
Official title: Evaluation of Hip Muscle Strength: Utility of an Adductor Fatigue Test to Substitute Handheld Dynamometry
Study type: OBSERVATIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Conditions: Groin Injury
Groin Strain
Keywords: Injury prevention
Strength assessment
Lead sponsor: University of Oviedo
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2024-08-16
Enrollment: 150
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Maximum age (years): 40
Standard ages: ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Observational model: OTHER
Time perspective: CROSS_SECTIONAL
Sampling method: NON_PROBABILITY_SAMPLE
Study population: Competitive athletes without groin injury in the last 3 months.

Brief summary: The strength of the adductor muscles in a population of federated athletes will be measured using two tests: First, the maximum strength test, utilizing handheld dynamometry. Subsequently, endurance strength will be measured with the Adductor Fatigue Test (Brazilian Adductor Performance Test), in order to evaluate a possible correlation between the two tests.

Detailed description: The strength of the adductor muscles in a population of federated athletes will be measured using two tests: First, the maximum strength test, utilizing dynamometry, where the subject will perform a maximal isometric contraction against the resistance provided by the investigator. Subsequently, endurance strength will be measured with the Adductor Fatigue Test (Brazilian Adductor Performance Test), the participant must perform an adductor exercise as many repetitions as possible until exhaution. In order to evaluate a possible correlation between the two tests and thus, by performing one of them, obtain the results of the other variable.

Apart from the strength measurements, democraphic caracteristics will be recorded to assess possible correlations between studied variables.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Having an active lifestyle
* Competing at any level in a federated sports discipline.

Exclusion Criteria:

* Not consenting to participate in the research.
* Being unable to understand or write in Spanish.
* Having sustained any type of injury to the inguinal musculature in the past 3 months.

Primary outcomes:
measure: Maximal adductor strength
timeFrame: September to December (2024)
measure: Adductor fatigue strength test
timeFrame: September to December (2024)
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Weight
timeFrame: September to December (2024)
measure: Hip and groin outcome score (HAGOS)
timeFrame: September to December (2024)
measure: Age
timeFrame: September to December (2024)
measure: Sex
timeFrame: September to December (2024)
measure: Leg length
timeFrame: September to December (2024)
measure: Height
timeFrame: September to December (2024)
measure: Previous groin injury.
timeFrame: September to December (2024)
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Oviedo
country: Spain
facility: Escuela Profesional de Medicina de la Educación Fisica y el Deporte
state: Asturias
Study officials:
References:
citation: de Queiroz JHM, Frota JP, Dos Reis FA, de Oliveira RR. Development and Predictive Validation of the Brazilian Adductor Performance Test for Estimating the Chance of Hip Adductor Injuries in Elite Soccer Athletes. Int J Sports Physiol Perform. 2023 Apr 20;18(6):653-659. doi: 10.1123/ijspp.2022-0306. Print 2023 Jun 1.
citation: Robaina BQ, Medeiros DM, Roberti LS, Franke RA, Baroni BM. The Single Leg Bridge Test does not replace handheld dynamometer hamstring tests in a clinical setting. Phys Ther Sport. 2023 Sep;63:126-131. doi: 10.1016/j.ptsp.2023.08.001. Epub 2023 Aug 6.