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Does Visualization (imagining) improve football skills, without actually performing the skill?

Effect of Mental Imagery in enhancing Soccer passing and control skills in Collegiate level soccer players: A Randomized Controlled Trial

Status
Active, not recruiting
Phases
Unknown
Study type
Interventional
Source
CTRI
Registry ID
CTRI/2023/05/052323
Enrollment
60
Registered
2023-05-04
Start date
Unknown
Completion date
Unknown
Last updated
2024-07-22

For informational purposes only — not medical advice. Sourced from public registries and may not reflect the latest updates. Terms

Conditions

None listed

Interventions

Intervention1: Mental Imagery along with conventional football skills training: External and Internal mental imagery is given to the players. External imagery intervention (visual-aided) followed by I

Sponsors

Tanmaya Kapre
Lead Sponsor

Eligibility

Inclusion criteria

Inclusion criteria: 1) Male collegiate level soccer players who are a part of the college team, taking part in competitions. (based on tegner activity level scale). 2) Athletes playing/practicing soccer for minimum 7 hours/week for minimum 1 year.

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion criteria: 1) Goalkeeper 2) Athletes having any recent injury, fracture, open wounds over the past 6 months. (using Nordic questionnaire) 3) Athletes with pre-existing neurological condition affecting cognition.

Design outcomes

Primary

MeasureTime frame
Loughborough Soccer Passing Test (LSPT)Timepoint: Pre-intervention (baseline) and post-intervention (after 3 weeks)—

Secondary

MeasureTime frame
McDonald Soccer testTimepoint: Pre-intervention (baseline) and post-intervention (after 3 weeks)—

Countries

India

Contacts

Public ContactTanmaya Milind Swati Kapre

Abhinav Bindra Sports Medicine and Research Institute

dean@absmari.com

Outcome results

None listed

Source: CTRI (via WHO ICTRP) · Data processed: Feb 4, 2026