Training for Injury Prevention in Collegiate Soccer Players

Overview

The purpose of this research project is to evaluate the effectiveness of an injury prevention intervention for collegiate soccer players.

Full Title of Study: “Sensorimotor Training for Injury Prevention in Collegiate Soccer Players”

Study Type

  • Study Type: Interventional
  • Study Design
    • Allocation: N/A
    • Intervention Model: Single Group Assignment
    • Primary Purpose: Prevention
    • Masking: None (Open Label)
  • Study Primary Completion Date: December 15, 2018

Detailed Description

The purpose of this research project is to evaluate the effectiveness of an injury prevention intervention for collegiate soccer players. The hypothesis is that measures of sensorimotor control will improve and injury incidence rate will decrease after participation in an intervention aimed at restoration/refinement of sensorimotor control. This study will be conducted as a 1-arm intervention with pre- and post-participation measurement of sensorimotor control and completion of an exercise intervention. Statistical analyses will be completed to determine within group change pre-to post-intervention and injury risk by comparing injury rate in 2018 to injury rate of a historical control.

Interventions

  • Other: Intervention
    • Multi-modal sensorimotor training interventions, including vestibular, oculomotor, neuromotor, and postural control/ balance exercises.

Arms, Groups and Cohorts

  • Experimental: Intervention
    • When enrolled into the study, the participants will be asked to join a group in WhatsApp for purposes of the research study. The application will be used to: deliver reminders for each treatment session; deliver daily prompts for the home exercise program; and present a web-link to the home exercise program (HEP). Participants will receive physical therapist delivered multi-modal sensorimotor training interventions. The exercises delivered at each intervention will be delivered in a group format, using a circuit of exercises that each athlete will complete in a session. Subsequent sessions will build upon previous sessions to work the sensorimotor control system in progressively more challenging and sport-specific scenarios. This present study will complete 8 sessions over 4 weeks.

Clinical Trial Outcome Measures

Primary Measures

  • Change in clinical measures of sensorimotor control
    • Time Frame: Pre to post-treatment (1 month)
    • Clinical examination tests

Secondary Measures

  • Injury incidence rate
    • Time Frame: 1 year
    • b) The incidence rate ratio of injury rates between a historical control (2017 soccer season) and the 2018 soccer-season from the participating college’s soccer teams.

Participating in This Clinical Trial

Inclusion Criteria

  • Male and female athletes on the soccer roster who are eligible to play in the fall 2018 season at Mississippi College Exclusion Criteria:

  • Any athlete who has a current diagnosis of concussion (i.e. a non-medically cleared concussion), lower-extremity musculoskeletal injury, or other medical diagnosis that will prevent the athlete from participation in the intervention.

Gender Eligibility: All

Minimum Age: 18 Years

Maximum Age: N/A

Are Healthy Volunteers Accepted: No

Investigator Details

  • Lead Sponsor
    • University of Mississippi Medical Center
  • Collaborator
    • Mississippi College
  • Provider of Information About this Clinical Study
    • Principal Investigator: Jennifer C. Reneker, Associate Professor – University of Mississippi Medical Center
  • Overall Official(s)
    • Jennifer C Reneker, PT, PhD, Principal Investigator, University of Mississippi Medical Center

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