- Title
- Preventing Australian football injuries with a targeted neuromuscular control exercise programme: comparative injury rates from a training intervention delivered in a clustered randomised controlled trial
- Creator
- Finch, Caroline; Twomey, Dara; Fortington, Lauren; Doyle, Tim; Elliott, Bruce; Akram, Muhammad; Lloyd, David
- Date
- 2016
- Type
- Text; Journal article
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/102057
- Identifier
- vital:10749
- Identifier
- ISBN:1353-8047
- Identifier
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https://doi.org/10.1136/injuryprev-2015-041667
- Abstract
- Background Exercise-based training programmes are commonly used to prevent sports injuries but programme effectiveness within community men's team sport is largely unknown. Objective To present the intention-to-treat analysis of injury outcomes from a clustered randomised controlled trial in community Australian football. Methods Players from 18 male, non-elite, community Australian football clubs across two states were randomly allocated to either a neuromuscular control (NMC) (intervention n=679 players) or standard-practice (control n=885 players) exercise training programme delivered as part of regular team training sessions (2x weekly for 8-week preseason and 18-week regularseason). All game-related injuries and hours of game participation were recorded. Generalised estimating equations, adjusted for clustering (club unit), were used to compute injury incidence rates (IIRs) for all injuries, lower limb injuries (LLIs) and knee injuries sustained during games. The IIRs were compared across groups with cluster-adjusted Injury Rate Ratios (IRRs). Results Overall, 773 game injuries were recorded. The lower limb was the most frequent body region injured, accounting for 50% of injuries overall, 96 (12%) of which were knee injuries. The NMC players had a reduced LLI rate compared with control players (IRR: 0.78 (95% CI 0.56 to 1.08), p=0.14.) The knee IIR was also reduced for NMC compared with control players (IRR: 0.50 (95% CI 0.24 to 1.05), p=0.07). Conclusions These intention-to-treat results indicate that positive outcomes can be achieved from targeted training programmes for reducing knee and LLI injury rates in men's community sport. While not statistically significant, reducing the knee injury rate by 50% and the LLI rate by 22% is still a clinically important outcome. Further injury reductions could be achieved with improved training attendance and participation in the programme.
- Publisher
- BMJ Publishing Group
- Relation
- Injury Prevention Vol. 22, no. 2 (Apr 2016), p. 123-128; http://purl.org/au-research/grants/nhmrc/1058737
- Rights
- Copyright © 2016, BMJ Publishing Group. All rights reserved. This is an Open Access article distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
- Rights
- Open Access
- Rights
- http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
- Rights
- This metadata is freely available under a CCO license
- Subject
- 1117 Public Health and Health Services; 1701 Psychology; Anterior cruciate ligament; Whole-body kinematics; Lower-limb injury; Cutting maneuvers; Community football; Landing task; Knee moments; Risk-factors; ACL injury
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