Clinical trial NCT05218993: A New Dual Task Test Method for Football Players
Official title: A New Dual Task Capacity Measuring Method for Football Players
Study type: OBSERVATIONAL
Overall status: ENROLLING_BY_INVITATION
Conditions: Sports Physical Therapy
Multi-Tasking Behavior
ACL Injury
Kinesiophobia
Keywords: soccer
dual task
performance
rehabilitation
return to sport
Lead sponsor: Hacettepe University
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2022-02-01
Enrollment: 60
Sex: MALE
Minimum age (years): 14
Standard ages: CHILD
ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Observational model: COHORT
Time perspective: PROSPECTIVE
Sampling method: NON_PROBABILITY_SAMPLE
Study population: For the first stage of the study, professional football players who are healthy and who can attend the trainings and/or games in full performance.

For the last stage of the study, professional football players who wish to return to sports after knee injuries.

Brief summary: Multitasking (Dual Task) is a measurement method to evaluate cognitive ability to execute multiple functions at the same time. To perform this test, while participant/patient performing a main skill (for example, walking), a cognitive skill is added (for example, counting 7 backwards from 100) to measure how much the completion performance of the activity is affected. Frequently used multitasking trainings are known as counting back from 100 and asking mathematical equations during a physical skill. Multitasking skill is rarely used in sports-related training, and it is generally used in the form of counting 7 backwards from 100, counting months and counting 5-letter words while walking over obstacles. However, multitasking training methods described and applied in the literature are not specific to football skills. For this reason, limited tests defined and applied in other clinical and sportive fields may not be sufficient in football players who perform activities that require high performance. Therefore, aim of this study is to develop a dual-task assessment method, which includes the cognitive loads experienced by football players during training and matches, and also covers the basic skills of football. As a result of this study, a football-specific dual-task test will be created and the capacity of the athletes will be measured by applying this test to healthy athletes. Also, this test will be conducted on football players with recent knee injury history, who wish to return to sport, and to evaluate their dual-task capacity and to correlate it with kinesiophobia and other performance tests


Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* attending regularly to the trainings
* being a professional football player

Exclusion Criteria:

* having any neurological disorders

Primary outcomes:
measure: Traditional dual task assessment
timeFrame: At the baseline
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Juggling tests
timeFrame: At the baseline
measure: Fast dribbling test
timeFrame: At the baseline
measure: Long pass accuracy test
timeFrame: At the baseline
measure: Stroop test
timeFrame: At the baseline
measure: Corsi task
timeFrame: At the baseline
measure: Simple and choice based reaction times
timeFrame: At the baseline
measure: Mental rotation task
timeFrame: At the baseline
measure: Kinesiophobia measurement
timeFrame: At the baseline
measure: Return to sport readiness
timeFrame: At the baseline
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Ankara
country: Turkey
facility: Hacettepe University
Study officials:
affiliation: Hacettepe University
name: Tüzün Fırat, Prof.
role: STUDY_DIRECTOR
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