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ID
Source
Health condition
Musculoskeletal injuries, especially finger/wrist, shoulder, knee and ankle injuries
Sponsors and support
- Academic Center for Evidence based Sports medicine (ACES), Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- Center for Sports Medicine, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, The Netherlands
Amsterdam
- Collaboration for Health & Safety in Sports (ACHSS), Academic Medical Center / VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- Department of Public and Occupational Health, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Intervention
Outcome measures
Primary outcome
Incidence of acute injury
Prevalence of overuse injury
Compliance with intervention
Secondary outcome
None
Background summary
Both acute and overuse injuries are common among recreational volleyball players, especially finger/wrist, shoulder, knee and ankle injuries. Consequently, an intervention (‘VolleyVeilig’) was developed in order to prevent or reduce the occurrence of finger/wrist, shoulder, knee and ankle injuries among recreational volleyball players. This article describes the design of a study evaluating the effectiveness of the developed intervention on the one-season occurrence of finger/wrist, shoulder, knee and ankle injuries among recreational adult volleyball players.
A randomized prospective controlled trial with a follow-up period of one volleyball season is conducted. Participants are healthy recreational adult volleyball players (18 years of age or older) practicing volleyball (training and/or match) at least twice a week. The intervention (‘VolleyVeilig’) consists of a warm-up program based on more than 50 distinct exercises (with different variations and levels). The intervention programme was compared to volleyball as usual. Outcome measures are incidence of acute injury (expressed as number of injuries per 1000 hours of play) and prevalence of overuse injuries (expressed as percentage).
Study objective
The objective of the study is to evaluate the effectiveness of the developed intervention (‘VolleyVeilig’) on the one-season occurrence of finger/wrist, shoulder, knee and ankle injuries among recreational adult volleyball players. Analogously to previous studies about the effect of preventive interventions in volleyball and in other sports, the hypothesis of this study is that the developed intervention would lead to a 40% reduction of the number of musculoskeletal injuries over the one-season follow-up in the intervention group by comparison to the control group.
Study design
Exposure, injuries and compliance are reported every two weeks with an online form.
Intervention
Intervention ‘VolleyVeilig’ vs. Volleyball as usual
Academic Medical Center (AMC), Amsterdam, The Netherland
- Dutch Consumer Safety Institute (VeiligheidNL), Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Vincent Gouttebarge
Amsterdam
The Netherlands
Tel: +31621547499
Email: v.gouttebarge@amc.nl
Academic Medical Center (AMC), Amsterdam, The Netherland
- Dutch Consumer Safety Institute (VeiligheidNL), Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Vincent Gouttebarge
Amsterdam
The Netherlands
Tel: +31621547499
Email: v.gouttebarge@amc.nl
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria are: (i) 18 years of age or older; (ii) playing in a volleyball team competing recreationally in one of the two competition regions involved in the study; (iii) practicing volleyball (training and/or match) at least twice a week; (iv) speaking and reading Dutch fluently; (v) owning an email address.
Exclusion criteria
Participants being injured at the start of the study will be excluded.
Design
Recruitment
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In other registers
| Register | ID |
|---|---|
| NTR-new | NL6055 |
| NTR-old | NTR6202 |
| Other | ZonMw : 536001007 |