Clinical trial NCT04666935: The Effect of the Oslo Sports Trauma Research Center (OSTRC) Injury Prevention Exercises Reducing Injuries Rate Among Athletes.
Official title: The Effect of the Oslo Sports Trauma Research Center (OSTRC) Injury Prevention Exercises Reducing Injuries Rate Among Athletes. a Randomized Controlled Trial.
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: UNKNOWN
Phase: NA
Conditions: Sport Injury
Keywords: Oslo Sports Trauma Research Center
Injury Prevention Program
Lead sponsor: Umm Al-Qura University
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2020-12-14
Enrollment: 400
Sex: MALE
Minimum age (years): 18
Maximum age (years): 40
Standard ages: ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Intervention model description: The intervention group will be instructed to include the Oslo Sports Trauma Research Center (OSTRC) Injury Prevention Program as a warm up before training session (3 times per week) during one season (6 months).The control group will practice their usual warm up.

Usual warm up is defined as any basic exercises performed before a performance or practice to prepare the muscles for vigorous actions.
Primary purpose: PREVENTION

Brief summary: The Oslo Sports Trauma Research Center (OSTRC) was established in May 2000 at the Norwegian School of Sport Sciences.The OSTRC aims to prevent injuries and other health problems related to sports. The majority of the research conducted at OSTRC involves elite sports.

The purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of the Oslo Sports Trauma Research Center (OSTRC) Injury Prevention Program in reducing injuries among athletes.

Hypothesis: that Oslo Sports Trauma Research Center (OSTRC) Injury Prevention Program has a beneficial effect in terms of injury prevention.

The purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of the Oslo Sports Trauma Research Center (OSTRC) Injury Prevention Program in reducing injuries among athletes.

Detailed description: Study type Interventional Description of intervention(s) / exposure: The intervention group will be instructed to include the Oslo Sports Trauma Research Center (OSTRC) Injury Prevention Program as a warm up before training session (3 times per week) during one season (6 months).

Group sessions will be administered by an exercise physiologist and/ or athletic trainer and/ or soccer coaches and/ or strength and conditioning specialists and/ or physiotherapist.

Session attendance checklists will be used to assess or monitor adherence to the intervention.

Comparator / control treatment The control group will practice their usual warm up.

Usual warm up is defined as any basic exercises performed before a performance or practice to prepare the muscles for vigorous actions.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Healthy
* Amateur Athletes
* Training at least three times per week

Exclusion Criteria:

* History of lower extremity injury requiring medical attention in the past 6 months
* Systemic diseases
* Cardiovascular disease
* Neurological disorders
* Bone fractures
* Surgery in the previous year.

Primary outcomes:
measure: Incidence of initial injuries.
timeFrame: At the end of the intervention season (6 months).
measure: The incidence of recurrent injuries
timeFrame: At the end of the intervention season (6 months)
Secondary outcomes:
measure: injury severity
timeFrame: At time of any injury occurring throughout intervention soccer season (6 months)
measure: Compliance with the intervention
timeFrame: At the end of the intervention season (6 months)
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Mecca
country: Saudi Arabia
facility: Umm Al Qura University
Study officials:
References:
citation: Al Attar WSA, Alshehri MA. A meta-analysis of meta-analyses of the effectiveness of FIFA injury prevention programs in soccer. Scand J Med Sci Sports. 2019 Dec;29(12):1846-1855. doi: 10.1111/sms.13535. Epub 2019 Sep 5.
citation: Al Attar WSA, Soomro N, Pappas E, Sinclair PJ, Sanders RH. Adding a post-training FIFA 11+ exercise program to the pre-training FIFA 11+ injury prevention program reduces injury rates among male amateur soccer players: a cluster-randomised trial. J Physiother. 2017 Oct;63(4):235-242. doi: 10.1016/j.jphys.2017.08.004. Epub 2017 Sep 20.
citation: Al Attar WS, Soomro N, Pappas E, Sinclair PJ, Sanders RH. How Effective are F-MARC Injury Prevention Programs for Soccer Players? A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. Sports Med. 2016 Feb;46(2):205-17. doi: 10.1007/s40279-015-0404-x.