An interventional study of Comprehensive Follow-up and Standard Follow-up in Injury, Knee, Injury, Ankle and Tendinopathy, sponsored by Sport Injury Prevention Research Centre. Completed at 1 site in Canada. Open to participants aged 11 Years to 18 Years, including healthy volunteers. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2020-04-27.
Sponsored by Sport Injury Prevention Research Centre · Not applicable, Interventional, and Prevention
This study seeks to determine the prevalence of knee and ankle tendinopathies in youth basketball players, as well as determine the efficacy of a Basketball specific Neuromuscular training warm-up in reducing injuries.
In addition, the comprehensive intervention group will receive weekly visits at team practices from a research physiotherapist, athletic trainer, or strength and conditioning coach. These visits will provide the team guidance with the BSpecNMT warm-up to facilitate proper technique and appropriate progression of the BSpecNMT warm-up exercises.
All teams will have their adherence to the BSpecNMT recorded on a weekly basis by a Team Designate. In addition, injuries will be prospectively monitored through a weekly self-report questionnaire, a post-season questionnaire (completed by players) and injury report form (completed by team designates). Also, Coaches' knowledge and attitudes to injury prevention will be registered by surveys during the pre-season, post-workshop, post-season, 6-month post-season, and 12-month post-season timepoints.
267 studies on the registry are indexed under Knee Injuries; 59 are open to participants now.
This study's enrollment of 441 is above the median of 49 across 178 interventional studies indexed under Knee Injuries.
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Coaches from schools randomized to the comprehensive follow-up receive a workshop outlining a neuromuscular training program to be used as a warm-up for 10 minutes at the beginning of each basketball practice and game. Throughout the season, a trained research team member will monitor the team weekly for injuries, participation, and adherence, and provide support to the school coaches regarding the warm-up.
Other: Comprehensive Follow-up
Coaches from schools randomized to the standard follow-up receive a workshop outlining a neuromuscular training program to be used as a warm-up for 10 minutes at the beginning of each basketball practice and game. Throughout the season, a research team member will monitor the team weekly for injuries, participation, and adherence, however will not provide support to the school coaches regarding the warm-up.
Other: Standard Follow-up
Trained research staff members will provide weekly support to coaches on the NMT warm-up.
Research staff will monitor teams weekly, however no additional support for warm-up will be provided.
Basketball injuries
To effectively capture all injuries (i.e., acute and overuse/chronic injuries), an "all-complaint" injury definition will be adopted through year 1 and year 2 of study. An injury is any physical complaint, including any pain, ache, joint instability, stiffness or any other complaint resulting from participating in basketball-related sessions, including but irrespective of the need for medical attention (seeking care from a trainer or medical practitioner) or time-loss (inability to complete a basketball-related session, or participate in one or more days after the onset of injury) from basketball-related activities. Further, an injury is identified as acute if its onset was sudden and clearly associated with an identifiable event and overuse if its onset, whether gradual or sudden, was unidentifiable with any event.
Time frame: Medical attention injuries daily, additional injuries weekly and a post-season interview at 4 months if needed.
Weekly Exposure Sheet (WES)
The duration of time players are exposed to basketball, and the basketball NMT program, will be captured. This will be captured using a previously validated Weekly Exposure Form (WES). This includes start and end time of sport sessions, attendance at those sessions, and reason for non-attendance.
Time frame: This will be recorded weekly during the basketball season (average 4 months)
Player Questionnaire
Injury history, demographics, medical history
Time frame: This measure will be assess at baseline (pre-season) and end of the basketball season (average 4 months after baseline)
Coach Beliefs/Behaviors
Coach knowledge, experiences, attitudes and beliefs of the coach related to injury prevention and the neuromuscular training program will be assessed through a previously validated Health Action Process Approach questionnaire adapted in previous studies in a similar setting
Time frame: The questionnaire will be administered to team coaches at 4 different time-points - Pre-workshop at baseline, post workshop at baseline, post-season at 4 months, post-season follow-up at 6 months and post-season follow-up at 12 months.
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Ran from Aug 2016 to primary completion in Jul 2018, 23 months.
Of 94 non-industry interventional studies with no phase under Knee Injuries, half reached primary completion within 21 months of starting (the median), counting those still running; a quarter within 8 and three quarters within 51. This study's 23 months is close to that.
Counting every sponsor, half of 99 studies reached it within 20 months; a quarter within 8 and three quarters within 51.
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