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The Effect of Exercise on Amateur American Football Players

The Effect of Exercise on Amateur American Football Players

Status
Completed
Phases
NA
Study type
Interventional
Source
ClinicalTrials.gov
Registry ID
NCT05868655
Enrollment
43
Registered
2023-05-22
Start date
2023-04-17
Completion date
2024-08-17
Last updated
2024-11-05

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

Conditions

Athletic Injuries

Brief summary

Football is a team activity that calls for numerous sophisticated talents, including speed, endurance, speed, strength, and quickness. It is getting more and more popular among professional and amateur players, particularly in America.

Detailed description

Current research demonstrates that characteristics of American football players like body composition, sprint performance, metabolism, and strength are influenced by elements like the league played, training history, and position played. The ability to generate power with both the upper and lower bodies, change direction quickly, accelerate quickly in both positive and negative directions, run quickly, engage in high-intensity collisions repeatedly, and maintain muscular strength endurance are all skills that players on the court may need.

Interventions

OTHERExercise with Video-Based

A program of stability and balance exercises will be provided

OTHERStandart exercise-Home-Based

Participants will be asked to take the final measurements after the exercises have been monitored by a physical therapist for eight weeks.

Sponsors

Istanbul Medipol University Hospital
Lead SponsorOTHER

Study design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Intervention model
PARALLEL
Primary purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE (Investigator)

Masking description

Treatment and assessment in the study was performed by different physiotherapists.

Intervention model description

Prior to and following the eight-week application, evaluation was conducted.

Eligibility

Sex/Gender
MALE
Age
18 Years to 25 Years
Healthy volunteers
No

Inclusion criteria

* Male individuals between the ages of 18-25 * Being an American football player * Regular attendance at training sessions

Exclusion criteria

* Known neurological disorder * Serious orthopedic disorders that will prevent him from exercising * cognitive impairment

Design outcomes

Primary

MeasureTime frameDescription
The Tampa Kinesiophobia Scale8 weeksThe Tampa Kinesiophobia Scale is one of two scales that assesses pain-related fear. This scale, which is frequently used in the literature, is based on avoidance due to fear, fear in work-related activities, fear of movement or re-injury. The Tampa Scale for Kinesiophobia is a 17-item questionnaire that quantifies fear of movement.The original 17-item version of the scale creates scores ranging between 17 and 68 with higher scores indicating more fear of movement
Optojump8 weeksThe system can be activated with 2 cameras and at least 2 Optojump bars. In the measurements, the vertical jump height was recorded with the optoJump system and the software of this system (Microgate, Bolzano, Italy). The measurement of the vertical jump distance in centimeters is done by means of two bars in the OptoJump system with sensors that detect movement.
The duration of the jump (milliseconds) .(Optojump)8 weeksThe system can be activated with 2 cameras and at least 2 Optojump bars. The duration of the jump (milliseconds).
The Biodex balance systemsix weeksThe Biodex balance system (BDS) is one of the mechanical platforms frequently used in balance measurements. It assesses balance through a platform that oscillates in the anteroposterior, mediolateral and general directions simultaneously.

Secondary

MeasureTime frameDescription
Sit-Reach Test8 weeksThe classical sit-reach test will be used to assess flexibility. According to meta-analyses, the classical sit-reach test is the most reliable method to evaluate hamstring flexibility.

Countries

Turkey (Türkiye)

Outcome results

None listed

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Data processed: Feb 4, 2026