Clinical trial NCT06919107: Advanced Footwear Technology in Federated Athletes
Official title: Use of Advanced Footwear Technology in Federated Athletes. An Ambispective Observational Study
Study type: OBSERVATIONAL
Overall status: NOT_YET_RECRUITING
Conditions: Athlete Foot
Keywords: Disease
Athletics
Advanced Footwear Technology
Risk
Secondary Prevention
Physiotherapy
Lead sponsor: University of Oviedo
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2025-04-09
Enrollment: 95
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Maximum age (years): 30
Standard ages: ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Observational model: COHORT
Time perspective: OTHER
Sampling method: NON_PROBABILITY_SAMPLE
Study population: Federated athletes competing in events over 800 meters in the Principality of Asturias.

Brief summary: Background. Athletics is one of the sports modalities with the greatest growth in the number of federative licenses in our country. In the last five years, the use of footwear with Advanced Footwear Technology (AFT) has become widespread in order to increase athletic performance.

Objective. To analyze the risk of injury in athletes using Advanced Footwear Technology as well as the sporting, sociodemographic and anthropometric variables that influence this risk.

Method. Ambispective cohort study. Ninety-five athletes competing in events longer than 800 meters will be recruited. The primary variable will be the number of injuries, muscular and tendon, of lower limbs in the last 3 athletic seasons. Secondary and modifying variables will be: age, sex, weekly training load with and without AFT, weekly training frequency, completion of a complementary toning program and foot size. Potential confounding variables will be body mass index, main training surface and commercial footwear models used. The analysis will calculate the risk of injury in these athletes and assess the influence of confounders and trend analysis on the primary variable, stratified by potential confounders.

Expected results. To calculate the risk of injury as a function of sport, sociodemographic and anthropometric variables. Identify


Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Athletes competing in events longer than 800 meters; iii) athletes who have not undergone previous musculoskeletal surgery in the seasons under study.
* Federated in the Federación de Atletismo del Principado de Asturias (Asturias Athletics Federation).
* Athletes who have not undergone previous musculoskeletal surgery in the seasons under study.
* Who were federated at least one year before the study period.

Exclusion Criteria:

* Athletes who do not use AFT devices.
* Athletes with a muscle or tendon injury at the time of the study.

Primary outcomes:
measure: Assessment of the number of muscle and tendon injuries recorded by athletes in the lower limbs
timeFrame: Screening visit
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Assessment of age
timeFrame: Screening visit
measure: Assessment of gender
timeFrame: Screening visit
measure: Assessment of the weekly training load, using AFT or not
timeFrame: Screening visit
measure: Assessment of weekly training frequency
timeFrame: Screening visit
measure: Assessment of the implementation of a complementary strengthening program
timeFrame: Screening visit
measure: Assessment of the size of athletes' feet
timeFrame: Screening visit
Other outcomes:
measure: Assessment of body mass index
timeFrame: Screening visit
measure: Assessment of the main training surface
timeFrame: Screening visit
measure: Assessment of commercial footwear models used by athletes
timeFrame: Screening visit
measure: Assessment of athletes' weight
timeFrame: Screening visit
measure: Assessment of the height of the athletes
timeFrame: Screening visit
Locations:
city: Oviedo
country: Spain
facility: University of Oviedo
state: Asturias
Study officials:
affiliation: Universidad de Oviedo
name: Rubén Cuesta-Barriuso, PhD
role: STUDY_DIRECTOR
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