An interventional study of Lemon foot to prevent blister in Blister of Foot and Sport Injury, sponsored by Institut de Formation et de Recherche en Médecine de Montagne. Status unknown at 1 site in France. Open to participants aged 18 Years and older, including healthy volunteers. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2021-10-21.
Sponsored by Institut de Formation et de Recherche en Médecine de Montagne · Not applicable, Interventional, and Treatment
For more than a decade, worldwide participation in ultra-marathons and ultra-trails (running races longer than the 42.195 km marathon) has been increasing. Although considered benign, blisters are a common problem, with serious consequences and limiting performance.
Although blisters are a major factor limiting endurance performance, they are a reason for only 5.8% of ultra-trail runners to quit.
While equipment is improving and participants are increasing and intensifying their training, there is no consensus on the prevention of blisters in ultra-trail running, even though it is the number one factor limiting sports performance. There are few prospective interventional studies on the prevention of blisters during outdoor activities.
On many running forums, there is the hypothesis that lemon applied to the feet prevents the appearance of blisters. This hypothesis has never been scientifically studied.
The investigators hypothesize that the local application of Lemon allows a reduction in the number of blisters on ultra-trail.
The objective of this Blisters-stop 2 study is to evaluate the efficacy of local application of Lemon in preventing the appearance of blisters.
The patients included will be runners registered in a trail of a distance greater than 40km for whom Lemon will be applied on the friction zones of one foot as a preventive measure (28 days).
The study is coordinated by IFREMMONT and the Pays du Mont Blanc Hospitals and 82 patients must be included in order to obtain statistical significance.
258 studies on the registry are indexed under Athletic Injuries; 45 are open to participants now.
This study's planned enrollment of 82 is above the median of 44 across 164 interventional studies indexed under Athletic Injuries.
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Exclusion Criteria:
Application of Lemon in the Prevention of Blisters on one feet
Other: Lemon foot to prevent blister
No application of Lemon or any other prevention cream in the Prevention of Blisters on one feet
The investigators make the hypothesis that the local application of Lemon allows a reduction of the number of blisters on ultra-trail.
Presence or not of blisters at the end of the ultra-trail or at the time of abandonment.
Blisters on each feet or non
Time frame: up to 1 week
Feasibility of the protocole
Easy to follow for runners, lemon used every day, how mutch misses
Time frame: up to 1 week
Compliance
Compliance to the protocole
Time frame: up to 1 week
Tolerance
Tolerance to the protocole
Time frame: up to 1 week
Main locations of residual blisters
Where on each feet
Time frame: up to 1 week
Severity of residual blisters
Severity
Time frame: up to 1 week
Plan to share: No
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