None listed
Conditions
Brief summary
This is an international research project to test the primary hypothesis that jockeys and riders who have been trained in fall safety skills will have reduced injury severity in falls. Participants will be assigned to training intervention or control groups and those assigned to the training intervention groups will undertake an 8.5 hour skills-based fall safety training program. Following a data collection period, participants who are assigned to the control groups will be offered the same fall safety training program. The training is based upon modified gymnastics skills, and all training will be directly supervised by Lindsay Nylund who is a former Olympic gymnast with qualifications in physical education, vocational training, advanced accreditation in gymnastics coaching.
Interventions
A fall safety training program will be provided to participants to teach them how to proactively respond to reduce their injury severity in falls using modified gymnastic-based techniques. Fall safety skills include training riders to let go of the reins and adopt a brace position to protect their head/neck from direct or forceful impact with the ground, and tuck-and-roll skills to facilitate continuation of rider momentum following ground impact.
The training program will be carried out at urb
A fall safety training program will be provided to participants to teach them how to proactively respond to reduce their injury severity in falls using modified gymnastic-based techniques. Fall safety skills include training riders to let go of the reins and adopt a brace position to protect their head/neck from direct or forceful impact with the ground, and tuck-and-roll skills to facilitate continuation of rider momentum following ground impact. The training program will be carried out at urban or regional venues over a 2-week period for each cluster group. Training locations will be determined based upon convenience (geographic proximity) for riders who are enrolled. Participants will undertake 8 hours of training conducted over 4 sessions in group sizes of up to 10 participants per session. Session times will be scheduled at times that are convenient for participants who enrol. Participants will progress through training activities in body shapes, landing from height, landing at speed, rolling skills, and in fall simulation exercises. Competency-based assessment of skill level will be carried out during the fall safety training program. To ensure consistency of training methods, the training program and skills assessment will be carried out by a qualified and experienced gymnastics coach accredited to teach tumbling and aerial skills involving inverted rotation and landings from height and at speed.
Sponsors
Nylund Pty Ltd
Study design
Allocation
Randomised controlled trial
Intervention model
Parallel
Primary purpose
Prevention
Masking
Open (masking not used)
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Age
18 Years to 60 Years
Healthy volunteers
Yes
Inclusion criteria
1. Professional jockeys who ride racehorses 2. Amateur jockeys who ride racehorses 3. Other jockeys or riders who ride racehorse (e.g. conditional riders) 4. Riders who exercise racehorses (exercise or track work riders) 5. Riders who participate in cross-country eventing competition 6. Riders who participate in show jumping competition
Exclusion criteria
1. Riders who participate in rodeo or who break in horses 2. Riders who are pregnant or planning to become pregnant during the study period 3. Riders who will not be participating in their usual riding activities during the study period 4. Riders who are unable to participate in fall safety training 5. Riders who ride less than 4 days per month
Outcome results
None listed