Clinical trial NCT04716049: Effectiveness of Recovery Protocols in Elite Professional Young Soccer Players
Official title: The Effectiveness of Two Different Combinations of Recovery Methods in Elite Professional Young Soccer Players: a RCT
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Soccer
Physical Stress
Fatigue
Keywords: performance
recovery
fatigue
soccer
Lead sponsor: University of Vic - Central University of Catalonia
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2021-01-20
Enrollment: 20
Sex: MALE
Minimum age (years): 18
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: no
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Primary purpose: OTHER

Brief summary: The main objective of this project is to compare two recovery protocols, including nutritional and neuromuscular strategies on inmune, physiological and muscular responses.

Detailed description: A randomized controlled trial will be performed and players will be assigned in one of the two groups after their participation in a football game. The investigators will take baseline measures before the game and post-competition measures immediately after (after recovery intervention) and at 24, 36, 48 hours after the recovery intervention.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Elite young professional football players
* 75 minutes (at least) of game participation

Exclusion Criteria:

* Goalkeepers
* Injured players
* Players unable to perform at their best
* Players under medication

Primary outcomes:
measure: Neuromuscular or physical performance measures change: jump height
timeFrame: Baseline, Immediately after intervention, 24 hours after intervention, 48 hours after intervention, 72 hours after intervention
measure: Neuromuscular or physical performance measures change: maximal voluntary isometric contraction (MVIC)
timeFrame: Baseline, Immediately after intervention, 24 hours after intervention, 48 hours after intervention, 72 hours after intervention
measure: Biochemical/Physiological measures change: creatine kinase
timeFrame: Baseline, Immediately after intervention, 24 hours after intervention, 48 hours after intervention, 72 hours after intervention
measure: Biochemical/Physiological measures change: mioglobin
timeFrame: Baseline, Immediately after intervention, 24 hours after intervention, 48 hours after intervention, 72 hours after intervention
measure: Biochemical/Physiological measures change: urea
timeFrame: Baseline, Immediately after intervention, 24 hours after intervention, 48 hours after intervention, 72 hours after intervention
measure: Biochemical/Physiological measures change: ions
timeFrame: Baseline, Immediately after intervention, 24 hours after intervention, 48 hours after intervention, 72 hours after intervention
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Range Of Movement (ROM) measures change: internal rotation of the hip
timeFrame: Baseline, Immediately after intervention, 24 hours after intervention, 48 hours after intervention, 72 hours after intervention
measure: Range Of Movement (ROM) measures change: ankle dorsiflexion degrees
timeFrame: Baseline, Immediately after intervention, 24 hours after intervention, 48 hours after intervention, 72 hours after intervention
measure: Range Of Movement (ROM) measures change: hamstrings extension ASLR
timeFrame: Baseline, Immediately after intervention, 24 hours after intervention, 48 hours after intervention, 72 hours after intervention
measure: Range Of Movement (ROM) measures change: hamstrings extension Jurdan
timeFrame: Baseline, Immediately after intervention, 24 hours after intervention, 48 hours after intervention, 72 hours after intervention
measure: Subjective perceptual/well-being questionnaire measures change: McLean
timeFrame: Baseline, 24 hours after intervention, 48 hours after intervention, 72 hours after intervention
measure: Subjective perceptual/well-being questionnaire measures change: recovery
timeFrame: Baseline, 24 hours after intervention, 48 hours after intervention, 72 hours after intervention
measure: Subjective perceptual/well-being questionnaire measures change: RPE
timeFrame: After intervention, 24 hours after intervention, 48 hours after intervention, 72 hours after intervention
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Vic
country: Spain
facility: Universitat de Vic-Universitat Central de Catalunya
state: Barcelona
Study officials:
affiliation: UVic-UCC
name: Albert Altarriba-Bartes
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
References:
citation: McLean BD, Coutts AJ, Kelly V, McGuigan MR, Cormack SJ. Neuromuscular, endocrine, and perceptual fatigue responses during different length between-match microcycles in professional rugby league players. Int J Sports Physiol Perform. 2010 Sep;5(3):367-83. doi: 10.1123/ijspp.5.3.367.