Injury
Conditions
Keywords
NEURO MUSCULAR, Athletics, injury prevention
Brief summary
In athletics, injuries can affect athletes' participation in athletics, their performance and career, but also their health in physical, psychological and social aspects, in the short, medium and long term.
Detailed description
This justifies the development and implementation of injury risk reduction strategies. These should be developed according to a holistic approach that considers the complex aetiology of injuries in sport. Although many different injury risk reduction strategies have been studied in sport, in general, each has been evaluated in isolation, including for example education, neuromuscular exercises, psychological techniques or individual injury risk assessment. The investigators therefore hypothesized that their combination could improve the overall effectiveness of an intervention aimed at reducing the risk of injuries in athletics.
Interventions
OTHERNormal training
Athletes should continue their normal training
OTHERSpecific training
Athletes should consider i) watching the educational videos on injury prevention, ii) perform the neuro-muscular exercises, iii) practice the techniques against stress and anxiety, and iv) consider the injury prognostic feedback.
Sponsors
Saint Etienne School of Mine
Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Saint Etienne
Study design
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Intervention model
PARALLEL
Primary purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
NONE
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
18 Years to 45 Years
Healthy volunteers
Yes
Inclusion criteria
* be licensed at the French Athletics Federation (FFA) for competition (sprints, hurdles, jumps, throws, combined events, and endurance disciplines), without any counter-indications for competitive athletics activity attested by the license at the FFA; * have daily access to a digital device (smartphone, computer, tablet) with a network connection (public or private).
Exclusion criteria
* Any athlete deprived of liberty or subject to legal protection (guardianship, under curatorship, legal protection).
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Time (day) until the first Injury-type Complaint related to athletics and resulting in Restricted Participation in athletics (ICRP) | Week 14 | Time in days during which athletes are free of ICRP, between an intervention group and a control group |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Number of ICRP per 1000 hours of athletics practice | Week 14 | The number of ICRP per 1000 hours of athletics practice during a summer athletics competition season (14 weeks) |
| Number of days with an ICRP per 1000 hours of athletics practice | Week 14 | Number of days with ICRP per 1000 hours of athletics practice) during a summer athletics competition season (14 weeks) |
| Percentage of athletes with at least one ICRP | Week 14 | The percentage of athletes with at least one ICRP during a summer athletics competition season (14 weeks) |
| The average percentage of athletes with at least one ICRP | Week 14 | The average percentage of athletes with at least one ICRP per week during a summer athletics competition season (14 weeks) |
Countries
France
Outcome results
None listed