Clinical trial NCT04103437: Evaluation of Harmonicity in Running Gait by the Use of Innovative Techniques of Video Analysis
Official title: Evaluation of Harmonicity in Running Gait by the Use of Innovative Techniques of Video Analysis: Effects on Metabolic Consumption and Running Injuries Risk
Study type: OBSERVATIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Conditions: Injuries
Keywords: running harmonicity
running related injuries
Lead sponsor: Fondazione Don Carlo Gnocchi Onlus
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: Microgate Srl
name: Universita di Verona
First posted: 2019-09-25
Enrollment: 112
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Maximum age (years): 60
Standard ages: ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Observational model: COHORT
Time perspective: PROSPECTIVE
Sampling method: PROBABILITY_SAMPLE
Study population: recreational runners

Brief summary: This study aims to demonstrate the use of a digital video analysis method to evaluate harmonicity of running gait, through an holistic approach.

Furthermore, it explores the association of running gait harmonicity with running velocity and level of training and with running injuries risk .

Detailed description: Aetiology of running related injuries is reported to be multifactorial but still not fully understood. Factors that impede the understanding of the mechanisms and aetiology of injury are the traditional segmental approach to the analysis of running gait and the lack of prospective studies.

A more holistic approach to analysis of movement could permit a more in depth comprehension of the injured state, trough a changing of point of view. This holistic approach is based on the harmonic nature of running gait.

Despite the everyday use of the term "harmonicity" within sporting domains, methods to measure running gait harmonicity is a theme still vaguely explored.

Traditional methods evaluate the movement quality of the whole body based on the motion analysis of specific segments, that are supposed to sufficiently represent the entire body. The search for a method to analyse harmonicity of cyclic movements with a real holistic approach, is therefore still open.

With these aims, an innovative video analysis method has been proposed, based on the measure of the frequency variation of the pixel brightness in the digital video of a cyclic movement.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* at least one year of running practice
* minimum two day of running/week
* minimum 20 km running/week
* seasonal best on half marathon comprised between 1h20' and 2h00'
* experienced in treadmill running practice
* sport medical certificate

Exclusion Criteria:

* have suffered in the last three months of musculoskeletal disease
* regular practice of sport activities different from running
* acute or chronic osteoarticular diseases or, in general, other pathology limiting physical activities
* use of drugs altering physical activity performance (hypnotic, psychoactive, non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs e.g.).

Primary outcomes:
measure: Correlation between running related injuries (RRI) and running gait harmonicity
timeFrame: 1year
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Correlation between running gait harmonicity and spatio-temporal running parameters
timeFrame: 1 year
measure: Correlation between running gait harmonicity and metabolic parameters
timeFrame: 1 year
measure: Correlation between running related injuries (RRI) and running gait harmonicity
timeFrame: 1 year
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Florence
country: Italy
facility: IRCCS Don Carlo Gnocchi
state: Tuscany
Study officials:
affiliation: IRCCS Fondazione Don Carlo Gnocchi
name: Guido Pasquini, Bs
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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