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Trial reportBMJ (Clinical research ed.)2008

Comprehensive warm-up programme to prevent injuries in young female footballers: cluster randomised controlled trial.

Torbjørn Soligard, Grethe Myklebust, Kathrin Steffen, Ingar Holme, Holly Silvers, Mario Bizzini, Astrid Junge, Jiri Dvorak, Roald Bahr, Thor Einar Andersen

2 registry-linked trialsAbstract readMulticenter StudyRandomized Controlled Trial
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Trial report in BMJ (Clinical research ed.), 2008. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to 2 registered trials, which are not on this map. Cited by 295 papers, 30 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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NCT03447652 nacompletednot on this mapstarted 2017, after this paper: background citation

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

10 authors.

Torbjørn SoligardOslo Sports Trauma Research Centre, Norwegian School of Sport Sciences, PO Box 4014 Ullevaal Stadion, 0806 Oslo, Norway. torbjorn.soligard@nih.no
Grethe Myklebust
Kathrin Steffen
Ingar Holme
Holly Silvers
Mario Bizzini
Astrid Junge
Jiri Dvorak
Roald Bahr
Thor Einar Andersen

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

objectiveTo examine the effect of a comprehensive warm-up programme designed to reduce the risk of injuries in female youth football.

designCluster randomised controlled trial with clubs as the unit of randomisation.

setting125 football clubs from the south, east, and middle of Norway (65 clusters in the intervention group; 60 in the control group) followed for one league season (eight months).

participants1892 female players aged 13-17 (1055 players in the intervention group; 837 players in the control group).

interventionA comprehensive warm-up programme to improve strength, awareness, and neuromuscular control during static and dynamic movements.

main outcome measureInjuries to the lower extremity (foot, ankle, lower leg, knee, thigh, groin, and hip).

resultsDuring one season, 264 players had relevant injuries: 121 players in the intervention group and 143 in the control group (rate ratio 0.71, 95% confidence interval 0.49 to 1.03). In the intervention group there was a significantly lower risk of injuries overall (0.68, 0.48 to 0.98), overuse injuries (0.47, 0.26 to 0.85), and severe injuries (0.55, 0.36 to 0.83).

conclusionThough the primary outcome of reduction in lower extremity injury did not reach significance, the risk of severe injuries, overuse injuries, and injuries overall was reduced. This indicates that a structured warm-up programme can prevent injuries in young female football players.

trial registrationISRCTN10306290.

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AdolescentAthletic InjuriesCluster AnalysisExerciseFemaleHip InjuriesHumansLeg InjuriesMuscle StrengthPhysical FitnessRisk FactorsSoccerTreatment Outcome

Identifiers

PMID19066253
PMCPMC2600961

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