Sports injury prevention in youth football

Sports injury prevention in youth football: a cluster randomised controlled trial

Registry ID

ISRCTN14046021

Source registry

ISRCTN

Status

No longer recruiting

Study type

INTERVENTIONAL

Sponsor

The Urho Kaleva Kekkonen (UKK) Institute for Health Promotion Research (Finland)

Enrollment

1500

Start date

2014-10-29

Completion date

2015-06-07

Last update

2026-08-17

Conditions

• Injury, Occupational Diseases, Poisoning

Summary

Sports injuries

Detailed description

Participating football clubs will be randomised into the intervention or control group. The intervention group will do a comprehensive warm-up programme designed to prevent sports injuries before football training sessions 2-3 times per week. The control group will be asked to do their usual training. The warm-up programme contains six different exercises with progression focusing on young players movement control, especially on core stability, knee control and ankle/foot function: 1. General warm-up exercise 2. Hip muscle exercise 3. Plank exercise 4. Single leg balance exercise 5. Single leg strengthening exercise 6. Single leg plyometric exercise

Interventions

• BEHAVIORAL: Participating football clubs will be randomised into the intervention or control group. The intervention group will do a comprehensive warm-up programme designed to prevent sports injuries before football training sessions 2-3 times per week. The control group will be asked to do their usual training. The warm-up programme contains six different exercises with progression focusing on young players movement control, especially on core stability, knee control and ankle/foot function: 1. General

Inclusion criteria

1. Registered at the SHA 2. Willing to patricipate in the study 3. Female and male players aged 10-14 years

Exclusion criteria

Major injury at the baseline

Locations

• , , Finland
• , , Norway

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