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Preventing musculoskeletal injuries among recreational adult volleyball players: design of a randomised prospective controlled trial

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Preventing musculoskeletal injuries among recreational adult volleyball players: design of a randomised prospective controlled trial
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BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders, August 2017
DOI 10.1186/s12891-017-1699-6
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Vincent Gouttebarge, Johannes Zwerver, Evert Verhagen

Abstract

Both acute and overuse injuries are common among recreational volleyball players, especially finger/wrist, ankle, shoulder and knee injuries. Consequently, an intervention ('VolleyVeilig') was developed 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 will be conducted. Participants will be 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 effect of the intervention programme on the occurrence of injuries will be compared to volleyball as usual. Outcome measures will be incidence of acute injury (expressed as number of injuries per 1000 h of play) and prevalence of overuse injuries (expressed as percentage). This study will be one of the first randomized prospective controlled trials evaluating the effectiveness of an intervention on the occurrence of both acute and overuse injuries among recreational adult volleyball players. Outcome of this study could possibly lead to the nationwide implementation of the intervention in all volleyball clubs in The Netherlands, ultimately resulting in less injuries. Dutch Trial Registration NTR6202 , registered February 1st 2017. Version 3, February 2017.

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Country Count As %
Unknown 211 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 34 16%
Student > Master 25 12%
Researcher 12 6%
Student > Postgraduate 12 6%
Student > Ph. D. Student 11 5%
Other 27 13%
Unknown 90 43%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 38 18%
Sports and Recreations 28 13%
Nursing and Health Professions 26 12%
Social Sciences 4 2%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 2 <1%
Other 10 5%
Unknown 103 49%
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