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NCT Number: NCT03617887

Isometric Abdominal and Specific Gluteus Medius Work in Soccer Players

The problems of lack of lumbo-pelvic stability, as well as weakness or mobile restriction of the adductor muscles, may be the origin of lower limb injuries. Both intrinsic and extrinsic factors are key in the probability of suffering an imbalance. A protocol of abdominal isometric strength, accompanied by specific exercises of the gluteus medius, can be useful in order to prevent such dysfunctions.

The objective is to compare the efficacy of abdominal isometric work against the specific work of gluteus medius in the improvement of lumbo-pelvic stability and strength and elasticity of the adductor muscles.

Study design. Randomized, longitudinal, experimental, prospective, multicentre and single-blind clinical trial. It will take place at the facilities of the Soccer Club Fuenlabrada S. A. D. and the European University of Madrid.

The subjects will be randomly divided into two groups: control group and experimental group. The intervention period will last eight weeks, performing 2 weekly sessions, of approximately 20 minutes (depending on the group to which each subject belongs). The variables to be evaluated before and after the intervention will be the lumbo-pelvic stability and the strength and elasticity of the adductor muscles. For the statistical analysis, the SPSS program version 19.0 will be used.

It is expected to find how gluteal work produces improvements in lumbo-pelvic stability, as well as an increase in strength and adduction elasticity.

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Key information

Conditions

Young Soccer Players

Age range

18 year–35 year

Sex eligibility

Female

Study type

Interventional

Phase

Not applicable

Primary location

Royal Victoria Eugenia Foundation

Madrid, Madird, 28029, Spain

About this study

Each session will last 20 minutes, taking place during 2 days a week, in a period of 8 weeks. The intervention will be carried out at the beginning of the training session. This intervention consists of an abdominal work protocol, and a gluteal work protocol added to the previous protocol, performed by the control group and the experimental group, respectively.

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: Yes

Only the study team can determine whether someone qualifies for participation.

Inclusion criteria

  • Age between 18 and 35 years
  • Federated in the Royal Football Federation of Madrid currently and with a minimum of 4 years
  • Without any previous pathology or during the experimental period
  • Signed the informed consent

Exclusion criteria

  • Not have current or previous pathology in any region of the lower limb during the last 6 months
  • Inability or inability to comply with the demands of the study in terms of follow-up or problems of involvement
  • Players under pharmacological treatment or exercising a physiotherapy treatment parallel to the development of the study

Treatment and study plan

experimental group

Other

Plank exercise, Lateral plank exercise, Bird dog exercise, Pelvic drop exercise, and Stabilization of the middle gluteus in the knee valgus.

The intervention consisted of sessions of approximately 20 minutes, taking place 2 days a week, for 8 weeks. The exercises were performed at the beginning of the training session, and consisted of a work of the abdominal region in the control group, and a specific work of gluteus medius, added to the previous one, in the experimental group.

Control Group

Other

Plank exercise, Lateral plank exercise and Bird dog exercise. The intervention consisted of sessions of approximately 20 minutes, taking place 2 days a week, for 8 weeks. The exercises were performed at the beginning of the training session, and consisted of a work of the abdominal region.

Primary outcomes

  1. Change from baseline lumbo-pelvic stability after treatment and at 1 month

    Time frame: Screening visit, within the first seven days after treatment and after one month follow-up visit

    With a universal goniometer, the subject slightly lowers the extended legs, and the moment the lumbar spine loses contact with the ground, the angle is measured whose legs form with the ground

Secondary outcomes

  1. Change from baseline elasticity of the adductor muscles after treatment and at 1 month

    Time frame: Screening visit, within the first seven days after treatment and after one month follow-up visit

    With the subject sitting on the floor, and both legs extended and separated as much as possible, passively, place the goniometer with the axis parallel to the floor at the level of the pubic symphysis and both arms moving along the axis of the femur. The normative values: the normal range is from 0º to 180º

  2. Change from baseline adductor muscle strength after treatment and at 1 month

    Time frame: Screening visit, within the first seven days after treatment and after one month follow-up visit

    With a manual dynamometer, hooked to a fixed point and perpendicular and lateral to the leg to be treated, at the height of the distal third of the tibia, and the subject standing, the subject had to perform a hip adduction, generating a Progressive maximum isometric contraction.

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

Real Fundación Victoria Eugenia

Other

Registry information

Official study title

Isometric Abdominal and Specific Gluteus Medius Work in Soccer Players. A Randomized Pilot Study

Acronym: COREGLUTFEM

Important dates

Study start
2018
Primary completion
2018
Study completion
2018
First posted
Aug 7, 2018
Registry last updated
Sep 13, 2018

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