[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"health-studies-list:{\"conditionNormalized\":\"football-players\",\"overallStatus\":[\"RECRUITING\",\"AVAILABLE\",\"NOT_YET_RECRUITING\"],\"orderBy\":\"LastUpdateSubmitDate:desc\",\"size\":25,\"offset\":0}":3,"health-study-condition:football-players":27},{"pageToken":4,"total":5,"offset":6,"count":5,"results":7},null,5,0,[8,46,79,108,137],{"id":9,"slug":10,"hasResults":11,"nctId":12,"briefTitle":13,"officialTitle":14,"acronym":15,"eligibilityCriteria":16,"healthyVolunteers":11,"sex":17,"minAge":18,"maxAge":18,"enrollmentInfo":19,"targetDuration":4,"studyType":22,"phases":23,"briefSummary":25,"conditions":26,"keywords":29,"overallStatus":34,"whyStopped":4,"lastUpdateSubmitDate":35,"lastUpdatePostDateStruct":36,"startDateStruct":39,"completionDateStruct":41,"leadSponsor":43,"locationsCount":4},"100629799","effects-of-a-tactical-programme-for-critical-thinking-on-football-specific-decision-making-in-under-9-academy-players-100629799",false,"NCT07479368","Effects of a Tactical Programme for Critical Thinking on Football-Specific Decision-Making in Under-9 Academy Players","Effects of a Tactical Programme for Critical Thinking on Football-Specific Decision-Making and Execution Time in Under-9 Academy Players: A Controlled Parallel-Group Study Using the Stroop Task Football Test","TPCT-F-U9","Inclusion Criteria:\n\n* Male academy football players registered in the under-9 category.\n* Regular participation in academy football training.\n* Free from injury at baseline and able to fully participate in training and testing.\n* Written informed consent provided by a parent or legal guardian.\n* Age-appropriate assent provided by the child participant.\n\nExclusion Criteria:\n\n* Any injury or medical condition limiting full participation at baseline.\n* Injury sustained during the study that prevents continued full participation.\n* Absence from more than 25% of intervention sessions.\n* Inability to complete baseline assessment.\n* Inability to complete post-intervention assessment.","MALE","9 Years",{"count":20,"type":21},13,"ESTIMATED","INTERVENTIONAL",[24],"NA","This study evaluates whether embedding a Tactical Programme for Critical Thinking (TPCT) within routine academy football training improves football-specific decision-making and execution speed in under-9 male players. Participants will complete either TPCT-integrated training or standard academy training, and performance will be assessed before and after the intervention using the Stroop Task Football Test (STFT).",[27,28],"Football Players","Decision Making",[30,31,32,33],"Tactical Programme for Critical Thinking","Stroop Task Football Test","Critical Thinking","Execution Time","NOT_YET_RECRUITING","2026-03-16",{"date":37,"type":38},"2026-03-18","ACTUAL",{"date":40,"type":21},"2026-04-14",{"date":42,"type":21},"2026-06",{"name":44,"class":45},"Federal University of Vicosa","OTHER",{"id":47,"slug":48,"hasResults":11,"nctId":49,"briefTitle":50,"officialTitle":50,"acronym":51,"eligibilityCriteria":52,"healthyVolunteers":53,"sex":17,"minAge":54,"maxAge":4,"enrollmentInfo":55,"targetDuration":4,"studyType":22,"phases":57,"briefSummary":58,"conditions":59,"keywords":64,"overallStatus":34,"whyStopped":4,"lastUpdateSubmitDate":69,"lastUpdatePostDateStruct":70,"startDateStruct":72,"completionDateStruct":74,"leadSponsor":76,"locationsCount":78},"100626106","ecological-test-standardization-for-concussion-assessment-in-football-players-100626106","NCT07431320","Ecological Test Standardization for Concussion Assessment in Football Players","COMOFOOT","Inclusion Criteria:\n\nProfessional football players:\n\n* Male professional football players from French clubs\n* Aged 18 years and older\n* Provided written informed consent to participate\n* Adequate understanding of written and spoken French\n\nYouth football players from training centers:\n\n* Registered in a training center affiliated with a French football club\n* Aged 16 years and older\n* Provided written assent to participate, with parental or legal guardian consent for minors\n* Adequate understanding of written and spoken French\n\nExclusion Criteria:\n\nAll players:\n\n* History of concussion in the past 6 months (for inclusion, a statement from the club physician confirming no concussion in the past 6 months will be requested)\n* Physically unfit (if applicable, a medical certificate from the club physician will be required, e.g., incapacitating musculoskeletal injury)",true,"16 Years",{"count":56,"type":21},100,[24],"Concussion is a major concern in the sports world. It represents an immediate and transient alteration of neurological functions due to a direct or indirect trauma, with or without loss of consciousness. Concussions affect between 1.6 and 3.8 million people per year in the United States across all sports. The prevalence varies depending on the sport. In France, the incidence of sport-related concussions is estimated at 200,000 cases. According to the French Academy of Medicine (March 2025), concussions account for between 5% and 9% of all sports-related injuries. Among these cases, 30% involve individuals aged 5 to 19. Football (soccer) is one of the most affected sports, with its 2 million registered players. In French professional football (Ligue 1 and 2), during the 2023-2024 season, one concussion was recorded every 55 matches on average (declared concussion). During the 2018-2019 and 2019-2020 seasons, the rate of matches with concussion was approximately 2.5%. In professional rugby, it is estimated that one concussion occurs every three matches in France.\n\nThere are no precise statistics on the number or frequency of concussions in amateur football in France, due to a lack of reporting and insufficient diagnosis. Currently, practical recommendations exist for managing football players from the moment of impact on the field, implemented within the French Football Federation. The current concussion protocol includes a standardized tool for evaluating concussion intended for healthcare professionals, the SCAT6. However, this protocol is not always sufficient, and return-to-play sometimes occurs too early. Indeed, current assessments are too brief and do not evaluate all cognitive functions. They do not allow a clear understanding of the real on-field consequences. It is estimated that 50% of athletes return to play too early after a concussion, with risks of neurological complications or prolonged symptoms.\n\nHowever, defining rest time and return-to-play criteria is not straightforward. In practice, return to play relies, among other things, on neuropsychological tests, whose interpretation is difficult in the absence of baseline data. The concussion protocol does not allow for an accurate determination of whether performance has normalized without this neuropsychological baseline.\n\nRecent European and international recommendations advise conducting pre-season assessments to provide comparative values. Several studies have been published on the type of pre-season assessments to perform, most using paper-and-pencil or computerized neurocognitive tests.\n\nThe current concussion protocol relies mainly on paper-and-pencil tests. However, the literature shows dissociations between cognitive performance measured in ecological environments and performance measured through paper-and-pencil tests. Ecological tasks have the advantage of closely approximating the daily actions of a player and assessing cognitive functioning more precisely.\n\nThus, these ecological tasks, combined with a baseline assessment, would improve the evaluation of athletes following a concussion. These tasks would facilitate return-to-play decisions through more objective observations and normed data. Finally, ecological tasks would enhance player monitoring and allow a more accurate understanding of their health status.\n\nFor this reason, it seems necessary to develop a standardized ecological test performed in real-game situations. This would improve decision-making regarding return to play without medically endangering the player and would allow better understanding of the cognitive effects of concussion. These tasks will first be reviewed and tested by experts (players, football staff members, national concussion reference physician, and neuropsychologists) for feedback and refinement.",[60,61,27,62,63],"Concussion, Brain","Sports-related Concussion","Traumatic Brain Injury, Mild","Healthy Volunteer Male Subjects",[65,66,67,68],"ecological test","reliability","standardization","cognitive assessments","2026-02-18",{"date":71,"type":38},"2026-02-24",{"date":73,"type":21},"2026-04",{"date":75,"type":21},"2028-04",{"name":77,"class":45},"Centre Mutualiste de Rééducation et de Réadaptation Fonctionnelles de Kerpape",1,{"id":80,"slug":81,"hasResults":11,"nctId":82,"briefTitle":83,"officialTitle":84,"acronym":85,"eligibilityCriteria":86,"healthyVolunteers":11,"sex":17,"minAge":87,"maxAge":88,"enrollmentInfo":89,"targetDuration":4,"studyType":22,"phases":91,"briefSummary":92,"conditions":93,"keywords":95,"overallStatus":34,"whyStopped":4,"lastUpdateSubmitDate":99,"lastUpdatePostDateStruct":100,"startDateStruct":102,"completionDateStruct":104,"leadSponsor":106,"locationsCount":78},"100593897","muscle-injury-rtp-design-in-football-effects-of-backward-design-vs-forward-design-100593897","NCT07012408","Muscle Injury RTP Design in Football; Effects of Backward Design vs Forward Design.","Muscle Injury Return To Play Design in Football; Effects of Backward Design Versus Forward Design . A Randomized Controlled Trial","MIRTPD","Inclusion Criteria:\n\n* Male soccer players.\n* Diagnosed with a muscle injury via magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) during the three year study period.\n* They will all belong to the same club.\n* Age will be between 18 and 40 years old.\n\nExclusion Criteria:\n\n* Patients (Muscle injuries) that do not cause players to miss training or competitions.\n* Patients voluntarily decide not to participate in the study or abandon the RTP process due to transfers or other exceptional causes.","18 Years","40 Years",{"count":90,"type":21},74,[24],"Introduction\n\n\"Return-to-play\" (RTP) is an English term that corresponds to \"return to competition\". It is important to understand that this return is a constant, dynamic, and personalized decision-making process . The main objective of RTP is not to predict the exact moment of an athlete's return; rather, it is to prevent new injuries. For this, adequate decision-making is necessary. There are several important steps in the process, including correct diagnosis, strict control of workloads, and intelligent management of modifiers intrinsic to the sport that can lead to anxiety and stress\n\nHow are the pieces of the RTP puzzle arranged and managed?\n\nHow are RTP processes evaluated today?\n\nHow should RTP be understood? Should it be understood statically, as a checklist, or as a constant decision-making process involving the player?\n\nMain objective: Evaluate the design of the RTP process for muscle injuries in sports.\n\nSpecific objectives:\n\n* To compare two RTP designs and evaluate how their design influences the anxiety experienced by the player.\n* Identify variables that may be altered when choosing a regressive or progressive RTP design, such as sleep quality and cortisol level.\n* To establish direction in the design of the RTP process.\n* Create complete clinical guidelines on muscle injuries in sports with a focus on RTP design.\n\nMaterial and Methods\n\nDefinition of the Study Subjects\n\nThe subjects of the study will be all players belonging to the first or B team who suffer a muscle injury diagnosed by magnetic resonance imaging. At the time of injury, they will be randomly assigned to either the control group (following a regressive RTP design) or the intervention group (following a progressive RTP design). Masking will be double-blind. The sample size will be N=74.\n\nThe secondary variables will be recorded in the database after diagnosis by MRI. Subsequently, the primary variables will be measured and recorded at the beginning, middle, and end of the RTP period.\n\nIt is estimated that approximately half of the necessary sample size has been reached: about 37 subjects with muscle injury. The first statistical analysis will then be carried out to observe the preliminary results.\n\nAfter three years, once the analysis has been completed, the results and conclusions will be written up for publication in a journal.",[94,27],"Muscle Injuries",[96,97,98],"Return to play","Design","effects","2025-06-14",{"date":101,"type":38},"2025-06-18",{"date":103,"type":21},"2025-09-01",{"date":105,"type":21},"2028-09-01",{"name":107,"class":45},"Universitat de les Illes Balears",{"id":109,"slug":110,"hasResults":11,"nctId":111,"briefTitle":112,"officialTitle":112,"acronym":4,"eligibilityCriteria":113,"healthyVolunteers":53,"sex":17,"minAge":54,"maxAge":87,"enrollmentInfo":114,"targetDuration":4,"studyType":22,"phases":116,"briefSummary":117,"conditions":118,"keywords":122,"overallStatus":34,"whyStopped":4,"lastUpdateSubmitDate":128,"lastUpdatePostDateStruct":129,"startDateStruct":131,"completionDateStruct":133,"leadSponsor":135,"locationsCount":78},"100594254","effects-of-integrative-neuromuscular-traning-on-physical-fitness-and-dribbling-performance-among-high-school-male-football-players-in-shandong-china-100594254","NCT07017049","Effects of Integrative Neuromuscular Traning on Physical Fitness and Dribbling Performance Among High School Male Football Players in Shandong, China","Inclusion Criteria:\n\n1. Male high school football players aged between 16 to 18 years\n2. Regular participation in football training without prior structured neuromuscular warm-up training experience within the last 12 months\n3. Physically healthy and capable of performing all required tests\n4. Voluntary consent to participate in all assessments and training sessions\n5. Clear understanding of the objectives and procedures of the study\n\nExclusion Criteria:\n\n1. History of significant musculoskeletal injuries (e.g., knee, ankle, or hip injuries) within the previous year\n2. Presence of current health conditions or medication use that might interfere with physical performance or muscular activity\n3. Any neurological disorders or chronic health issues that could impact participation in training or assessment\n4. Previous experience with structured neuromuscular warm-up training within the last year\n5. Uncertainty regarding the ability to consistently attend and complete the training due to personal or external factors",{"count":115,"type":21},70,[24],"This study investigates the effects of a 12-week Integrative Neuromuscular Training (INT) program on physical fitness, balance, and dribbling skills in male high school soccer players in Shandong, China. INT, which combines strength, agility, balance, core stability, and proprioception, has been shown internationally to enhance athletic performance and prevent injuries among youth athletes. While widely applied in sports like basketball, volleyball, and swimming abroad, research on INT in Chinese male soccer players remains limited.\n\nA total of 60 male soccer players (aged 16-18) with at least two years of training experience will be recruited from two high schools in Jinan and divided equally into experimental and control groups. The experimental group will undergo INT three times per week for 12 weeks, while the control group will continue regular soccer training. The study will measure changes in strength, speed, endurance, flexibility, static and dynamic balance, and dribbling performance. Data collection spans 16 weeks, including pre-tests, intervention, and post-tests. Statistical analysis will be conducted using SPSS 26.0, employing descriptive statistics, GEE models, and repeated measures ANOVA. This research aims to provide scientific evidence for the use of INT in youth soccer training in China.",[119,120,121,27],"Adolescent","Healthy Volunteers (HV)","Physical Fitness and Technical Skills",[123,124,125,126,127],"integrative neuromuscular training","football players","adolescent","physical fitness","drilling","2025-06-03",{"date":130,"type":38},"2025-06-12",{"date":132,"type":21},"2025-06-20",{"date":134,"type":21},"2025-10-20",{"name":136,"class":45},"Xinrui Zhang",{"id":138,"slug":139,"hasResults":11,"nctId":140,"briefTitle":141,"officialTitle":142,"acronym":4,"eligibilityCriteria":143,"healthyVolunteers":11,"sex":144,"minAge":87,"maxAge":4,"enrollmentInfo":145,"targetDuration":4,"studyType":22,"phases":147,"briefSummary":148,"conditions":149,"keywords":150,"overallStatus":153,"whyStopped":4,"lastUpdateSubmitDate":154,"lastUpdatePostDateStruct":155,"startDateStruct":157,"completionDateStruct":159,"leadSponsor":161,"locationsCount":163},"100565085","effects-of-windlass-versus-calcaneal-taping-in-football-player-with-plantar-fasciitis-100565085","NCT06637592","Effects of Windlass Versus Calcaneal Taping in Football Player With Plantar Fasciitis.","Effects of Windlass Versus Calcaneal Taping on Pain, Flexibility and Lower Extremity Function in Football Player With Plantar Fasciitis.","Inclusion Criteria:\n\n* positive windlass test\n* Pain can appear after a period of intense training, normally declines with the warm up and reappears at the end of training.\n* Intense and acute heel pain localized primarily where plantar fascia attaches to the anterior calcaneus.\n* The pain presents on first walking in the morning or after a rest period.\n\nExclusion Criteria:\n\n* Congenital deformity of ankle and foot.\n* History of foot and ankle fracture.\n* History of ankle and foot surgery.\n* Previous surgery or treatment for plantar fasciitis in the previous 6 months.\n* Use of an assistive device for ambulation\n* Use of an assistive device for ambulation\n* Refuse to participate in the study","ALL",{"count":146,"type":21},34,[24],"Plantar fasciitis is a prevalent ailment that affects the plantar fascia, a dense tissue strip that spans the underside of the foot, from the heel bone to the toes. Football players are especially susceptible to this ailment because of the sport's high-impact nature, which includes repetitive sprinting, jumping, and quick changes in direction. Taping has been used for many years for various ailments. The purpose of this study is to determine the effects of two taping techniques i.e. windlass taping and calcaneal taping on pain, flexibility and lower extremity function in football players.",[27],[151,152],"plantar fasciitis","taping","RECRUITING","2025-01-01",{"date":156,"type":38},"2025-01-03",{"date":158,"type":38},"2024-10-10",{"date":160,"type":21},"2025-01",{"name":162,"class":45},"Riphah International University",2]