Clinical trial NCT05288296: The Effect of Dynamic Taping to Improve the Landing Strategy in Athletes.
Official title: The Effect of Dynamic Taping to Improve the Landing Strategy in Athletes.
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: UNKNOWN
Phase: NA
Conditions: Landing Error Scoring System (LESS)
Keywords: Dynamic taping
Landing Error Scoring System (LESS)
ACL injuries
Lead sponsor: Chang Gung Memorial Hospital
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan
First posted: 2022-03-21
Enrollment: 990
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 12
Standard ages: CHILD
ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: NA
Intervention model: SINGLE_GROUP
Primary purpose: BASIC_SCIENCE

Brief summary: This study will be conducted in three years: In the first year, we would recruit male and female high school soccer athletes to observe the effect of dynamic taping on landing error scoring system under fatigue status. In the second year, we would recruit junior high school, high school and college athlete to establish a native model of single-leg and double-leg LESS, then in advanced, confirm the ability to predict ACL injuries. In the third year, we will focus on high-risk subjects evaluated by LESS and athlete with ACL reconstruction to observe the supportive effect of dynamic taping.

Detailed description: ACL injuries occur most frequently in sports involving pivoting sudden deceleration. In Taiwan, it was estimated that at least 1,000 cases of patients require ACL reconstruction annually. Despite the improving of surgical technique, there is only 65% patients who received the ACL reconstruction return to their pre-injury level of sport. Therefore, to prevent ACL injuries in athletes is critical.

According to previous studies, the Landing Error Scoring System (LESS) is a clinical assessment tool to do field evaluation. We could predict the possibility of ACL injuries by the change of biomechanics. However, there are still many factors affecting the LESS, such as fatigue, single or double leg landing, age, sex and specific sport...etc., and comprehensive studies are absent.

Dynamic taping is a newly developing technique with better elasticity and extensibility. Studies showed that dynamic taping improve the biomechanics of knee joint. Hence, we can adjust the faulty movement as soon as possible to prevent the occurrence of ACL injuries.

This study will be conducted in three years: In the first year, we would recruit male and female high school soccer athletes to observe the effect of dynamic taping on landing error scoring system under fatigue status. In the second year, we would recruit junior high school, high school and college athlete to establish a native model of single-leg and double-leg LESS, then in advanced, confirm the ability to predict ACL injuries. In the third year, we will focus on high-risk subjects evaluated by LESS and athlete with ACL reconstruction to observe the supportive effect of dynamic taping.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* 1st Year: senior high school soccer athletes
* 2nd Year: junior/senior high school and college athlete
* 3dr Year: high-risk subjects evaluated by LESS and athlete with ACL reconstruction

Exclusion Criteria:

* Those who are unable to exercise due to acute joint, muscle or nerve injury in the lower extremities
* Lower extremity surgery within 1 year
* Head trauma within 6 months
* Those with vestibular injury within 6 months
* Allergic to Dynamic tape
* Pregnant
* Visual coordination impairment

Primary outcomes:
measure: Landing Error Scoring System (LESS) Score
timeFrame: 1st Year
measure: Landing Error Scoring System (LESS) Score
timeFrame: 2nd Year
measure: Landing Error Scoring System (LESS) Score
timeFrame: 3rd Year
Secondary outcomes:
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Taoyuan
country: Taiwan
facility: Taoyuan Chang Gung Memorial Hospital
Study officials:
affiliation: Taoyuan Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Taoyuan, Taiwan
name: CHIH-KUAN WU, MD
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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