Athletic PerformanceHandballNCT04086303
Anthropometric and Physical Fitness Differences Among Turkish Adolescents and Adults Handball Players
A study testing LSST test in people with Athletic Performance and Physical Fitness, run by Guven Health Group at 1 site in Turkey (Türkiye).
Trial summary
The purpose of this study was to examine the variation in physical and physiological characteristics according to sports age in adolescent and adult male team handball (TH) players. Read more about this study
- Who is it for?
- Ages 16 to 36 years, men onlyHealthy volunteers can take part
- Conditions the study is for
- Athletic Performance, Physical Fitness, Handball Players
- What is being tested?
- LSST test
- Could I receive a placebo?
- No, everyone receives an active treatment
- How many people
- 40 participants
- Where
- 1 siteTurkey (Türkiye)
- Study dates
- 1 Sep 2019to 30 Sep 2020
- Phase
- Interventional
- Are there results?
- None posted in the registry
Key requirements
Who can take part, as listed by the sponsor. Only the study team can confirm whether you are eligible, so take this list to your doctor.
- Ages 16 to 36 years
- Men only
- Healthy volunteers accepted
- Child, Adult
Who may be able to join
- Inclusion criteria were the ability to actively perform pain-free abduction from 0° to 45° and from 0° to 90° in elbow extension and age greater than 15 years.
- to be volunteer for including the study
- to be ready mentally
Who cannot join
- Exclusion criteria were shoulder injury, shoulder surgery in the 2 years before the study, systemic pathologic condition, or intervention in the 3 months before the study, including corticosteroid or hydrodilatation injection or physiotherapy.
- Specifically, injury included shoulder pain in active abduction or external rotation for more than 3 months, a reason to suspect a complete rotator cuff tear (eg, substantial shoulder weakness), a positive drop-arm sign or previous fracture, or a high-riding humerus observed on plain radiographs.
- Systemic pathologic conditions included inflammatory joint disease, complex regional pain syndrome, and shoulder pain referred from vertebral structures that was diagnosed via spinal clearing tests.
Trial locations and contacts
1 site in 1 country.
About this study
Official title: Is There Any Difference in Anthropometric and Physical Fitness Parameters in Handball Players?
The purpose of this study was to examine the variation in physical and physiological characteristics according to sports age in adolescent and adult male team handball (TH) players. Adolescent (N.=19, aged 18.1±1.4 yr) and adult (N.=23, 28.6±5.7 yr) players were examined for anthropometric characteristics, somatotype and body composition, and performed the physical working capacity test, a force-velocity test, the lateral scapular slide test (LSST), shark skill test, Davies test, squat jump (SJ), countermovement vertical jump without (CMJ).
Read the detailed description
The stability of the scapula in relation to the entire moving upper extremity is the key in the throwing sequence. The importance of scapular positioning in handball players has been well documented in the literature, but no one has compared scapular positioning between handball players and sedentary people. Study participants completed a rating scale for pain and a questionnaire about demographic and shoulder problems. One assessor performed the lateral scapular slide test and additional flexibility measurements around the shoulder girdle. Flexibility (external rotation, internal rotation) and scapular position (1, 2, 3) were compared among groups (young players, old players, sedentary people) and between sides (dominant, nondominant).
Participants: Forty-five aged between 16 and 35 yrs were recruited in the study. The exclusion criteria included those (a) with soft tissue or bone problems affecting lower and upper extremity, (b) who had acute inflammation affecting upper and lower extremity region, (c) had scoliosis, (d) who had undergone any orthopedic surgery, (e) who had defined any pain or painful area at lower extremities and (f) who were obese (BMI>30 kg/m2).
Assessments: The investigators plan to perform the physical working capacity test, a force-velocity test, the lateral scapular slide test (LSST), shark skill test, Davies test, squat jump (SJ), countermovement vertical jump without (CMJ).
The power analysis indicated that 32 participants for total were needed with 80 % power and a 5 % type 1 error. The power analysis of our study showed a power of 80% with LSST as the primary outcome. The data were analyzed using statistical software (SPSS version 18, Inc., Chicago, IL, USA). All the statistical analyses were set a priori at an alpha level of p<0.05. The tests for homogeneity (Levene's test) and normality (Shapiro-Wilk) were used to determine the appropriate statistical methods. According to the test results, nonparametric Friedman test was used for comparisons between baseline, first taping and last taping. Wilcoxon test was used for possible differences which may occur between taping applications in order to identify the application that provided the difference. Parametric test assumptions were not possible due to small sample size and inhomogeneous parameters.
- Being tested
- LSST test
What participants receive
What participants receive. In a randomised study each person is assigned to one group by chance.
LSST testOther
Also called upper extremity test, Y Balance test, Sit and reach test
LSST test: Scapular mobility testing Upper Extremity test: Upper extremity agility and endurance testing Y Balance test: Balance and Coordination testing Sit and Reach Test: Assessment of flexibility
| Study group | Role | What they receive |
|---|---|---|
| young handball players | Experimental | The first group was named young players (n = 19; age = 18.05 ± 2.58 years, body mass index = 22.0 ± 2.21 kg, sport participation ≤ 10 years) Receives: Other: LSST test |
| adult handball players | Active comparator | The second group was named old players (n =23; age = 28,91 ± 3.39 years, body mass index = 22.20 ± 2.75 kg, sport participation ≥ 11 years). Receives: Other: LSST test |
What is being measured
The primary outcome is the main question the study is designed to answer.
Testing for LSST
To maintain a consistent posture during the various test positions, participants were instructed to fix their eyes on an object in the examination area. For test position 1 of the LSST, participants were instructed to keep their upper extremities relaxed at their sides. The assessor obtained and confirmed the test position and then identified through palpation and marked the inferior aspect of the inferior angle of the scapula and the closest spinous process in the same horizontal plane.
Measured: 30 minutes
Upper extremity Test (Davies test)
Place 2 pieces of tape on the floor 90 cm apart, in a push up position with one hand on each tape. Have the client touch the other hand and alternate for 15 seconds. Repeat 3 times.
Measured: 30 minutes
Y Balance Test
The athlete should be wearing lightweight clothing and remove their footwear. After doing so, they are the required to stand on centre platform, behind the red line, and await further instruction.
Measured: 15 minutes
Sit and Reach Test
The test evaluates flexibility. Subjects are seated with their legs joined and outstretched. The soles of their feet are supported in a standardised wood box (Well Box). Through inflection of their trunks, the subjects reach (with their ring fingers, arms joined and hands superposed) as far as they can toward/upon the box; they perform this reaching movement 2 times, and the maximal distance is recorded. The accuracy of this measurement in the present study is to within 0.1 cm.
Measured: 10 minutes
Timeline
From the start of the study to its completion; the mark is today. Estimated dates are the sponsor’s plan.
- First posted11 Sep 2019
- Study start1 Sep 2019
- Primary completion1 Dec 2019
- Study completion30 Sep 2020
Resources
- Official record on ClinicalTrials.govThe registry entry this page is built from, with its full change history.
- Other trials for Athletic PerformanceStudies of the same condition, open and under way.
- What the trial phases meanHow a treatment moves from first tests in people to approval.
More details
For doctors and researchers: how the study is designed, who runs it, and its registry IDs.
Study design
- Study type
- Interventional
- Phase
- Phase N/A
- Primary purpose
- Basic science
- Allocation
- Non-randomised
- Intervention model
- Parallel groups
- Model description
- young handball players ≥10 years sport age adult handball players ≤10 years sport age
- Masking
- Single blind
- Who is masked
- Investigator
- Enrolment
- 40 participants (actual)
Sponsor and investigators
- Lead sponsor
- Guven Health Group
- Sponsor type
- University, hospital or other
- Responsible party
- Principal investigator, GUL BALTACI, Guven Health Group
- Investigators
- Yesim Sardan Cetinkaya, MD, Study director, Guven Health Group
IDs, dates and publications
- ClinicalTrials.gov ID
- NCT04086303
- Sponsor's protocol ID
- 520
- Acronym
- Handball
- Status last verified
- Feb 2021
- First submitted
- 8 Sep 2019
- Last updated
- 4 Feb 2021
- Results posted
- No
- Data monitoring committee
- No
- FDA-regulated drug
- No
- FDA-regulated device
- No
Study at a glance
From the registry record, last updated by the sponsor on 4 Feb 2021. Recruitment status is as the sponsor reported it: confirm with the study team.
- Official title
- Is There Any Difference in Anthropometric and Physical Fitness Parameters in Handball Players?
- ClinicalTrials.gov ID
- NCT04086303
- Acronym / sponsor ID
- Handball / 520
- Study type
- Interventional
- Recruitment status
- Completed
- Enrolment
- 40 participants (actual)
- Lead sponsor
- Guven Health GroupUniversity, hospital or other
- Study start
- 1 Sep 2019 (actual)
- Primary completion
- 1 Dec 2019 (actual)
- Study completion
- 30 Sep 2020 (actual)
- First posted
- 11 Sep 2019 (actual)
- Results
- Not posted in the source record
Clinical summary
The research question as the sponsor registered it. This describes what the study plans to test, not what it found.
The purpose of this study was to examine the variation in physical and physiological characteristics according to sports age in adolescent and adult male team handball (TH) players. Adolescent (N.=19, aged 18.1±1.4 yr) and adult (N.=23, 28.6±5.7 yr) players were examined for anthropometric characteristics, somatotype and body composition, and performed the physical working capacity test, a force-velocity test, the lateral scapular slide test (LSST), shark skill test, Davies test, squat jump (SJ), countermovement vertical jump without (CMJ).
Detailed description
The stability of the scapula in relation to the entire moving upper extremity is the key in the throwing sequence. The importance of scapular positioning in handball players has been well documented in the literature, but no one has compared scapular positioning between handball players and sedentary people. Study participants completed a rating scale for pain and a questionnaire about demographic and shoulder problems. One assessor performed the lateral scapular slide test and additional flexibility measurements around the shoulder girdle. Flexibility (external rotation, internal rotation) and scapular position (1, 2, 3) were compared among groups (young players, old players, sedentary people) and between sides (dominant, nondominant).
Participants: Forty-five aged between 16 and 35 yrs were recruited in the study. The exclusion criteria included those (a) with soft tissue or bone problems affecting lower and upper extremity, (b) who had acute inflammation affecting upper and lower extremity region, (c) had scoliosis, (d) who had undergone any orthopedic surgery, (e) who had defined any pain or painful area at lower extremities and (f) who were obese (BMI>30 kg/m2).
Assessments: The investigators plan to perform the physical working capacity test, a force-velocity test, the lateral scapular slide test (LSST), shark skill test, Davies test, squat jump (SJ), countermovement vertical jump without (CMJ).
The power analysis indicated that 32 participants for total were needed with 80 % power and a 5 % type 1 error. The power analysis of our study showed a power of 80% with LSST as the primary outcome. The data were analyzed using statistical software (SPSS version 18, Inc., Chicago, IL, USA). All the statistical analyses were set a priori at an alpha level of p<0.05. The tests for homogeneity (Levene's test) and normality (Shapiro-Wilk) were used to determine the appropriate statistical methods. According to the test results, nonparametric Friedman test was used for comparisons between baseline, first taping and last taping. Wilcoxon test was used for possible differences which may occur between taping applications in order to identify the application that provided the difference. Parametric test assumptions were not possible due to small sample size and inhomogeneous parameters.
Study design
- Primary purpose
- Basic science
- Allocation
- Non-randomised
- Intervention model
- Parallel groups
- Masking
- Single blind (investigator)
- Number of arms
- 2
- Model description
- young handball players ≥10 years sport age adult handball players ≤10 years sport age
| Arm | Type | Receives |
|---|---|---|
| young handball players | Experimental | Other: LSST testThe first group was named young players (n = 19; age = 18.05 ± 2.58 years, body mass index = 22.0 ± 2.21 kg, sport participation ≤ 10 years) |
| adult handball players | Active comparator | Other: LSST testThe second group was named old players (n =23; age = 28,91 ± 3.39 years, body mass index = 22.20 ± 2.75 kg, sport participation ≥ 11 years). |
Who may qualify
- Ages
- 16 to 36 years
- Sex
- Male only
- Healthy volunteers
- Accepted
- Age groups
- Child, Adult
Key inclusion criteria (3 listed)
- Inclusion criteria were the ability to actively perform pain-free abduction from 0° to 45° and from 0° to 90° in elbow extension and age greater than 15 years.
- to be volunteer for including the study
- to be ready mentally
Key exclusion criteria (3 listed)
- Exclusion criteria were shoulder injury, shoulder surgery in the 2 years before the study, systemic pathologic condition, or intervention in the 3 months before the study, including corticosteroid or hydrodilatation injection or physiotherapy.
- Specifically, injury included shoulder pain in active abduction or external rotation for more than 3 months, a reason to suspect a complete rotator cuff tear (eg, substantial shoulder weakness), a positive drop-arm sign or previous fracture, or a high-riding humerus observed on plain radiographs.
- Systemic pathologic conditions included inflammatory joint disease, complex regional pain syndrome, and shoulder pain referred from vertebral structures that was diagnosed via spinal clearing tests.
Eligibility is decided by the study team after screening; this overview does not establish that a patient qualifies. Full inclusion and exclusion criteria.
Interventions
| Intervention | Type | Arms |
|---|---|---|
| LSST testAlso: upper extremity test, Y Balance test, Sit and reach testLSST test: Scapular mobility testing Upper Extremity test: Upper extremity agility and endurance testing Y Balance test: Balance and Coordination testing Sit and Reach Test: Assessment of flexibility | Other | adult handball players, young handball players |
Primary outcome
Testing for LSST
Time frame: 30 minutes
To maintain a consistent posture during the various test positions, participants were instructed to fix their eyes on an object in the examination area. For test position 1 of the LSST, participants were instructed to keep their upper extremities relaxed at their sides. The assessor obtained and confirmed the test position and then identified through palpation and marked the inferior aspect of the inferior angle of the scapula and the closest spinous process in the same horizontal plane.
Upper extremity Test (Davies test)
Time frame: 30 minutes
Place 2 pieces of tape on the floor 90 cm apart, in a push up position with one hand on each tape. Have the client touch the other hand and alternate for 15 seconds. Repeat 3 times.
Y Balance Test
Time frame: 15 minutes
The athlete should be wearing lightweight clothing and remove their footwear. After doing so, they are the required to stand on centre platform, behind the red line, and await further instruction.
Sit and Reach Test
Time frame: 10 minutes
The test evaluates flexibility. Subjects are seated with their legs joined and outstretched. The soles of their feet are supported in a standardised wood box (Well Box). Through inflection of their trunks, the subjects reach (with their ring fingers, arms joined and hands superposed) as far as they can toward/upon the box; they perform this reaching movement 2 times, and the maximal distance is recorded. The accuracy of this measurement in the present study is to within 0.1 cm.
Results and safety
The study is completed, but results are not available in the source record. That does not mean the treatment did or did not work.
Research links
- Official record on ClinicalTrials.govLast updated by the sponsor 4 Feb 2021.
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Referral and contact
AzTrials does not enrol participants or take referrals. Contact the study team or a site listed below; they decide who can take part. This study is not recruiting at the moment.
Yesim Sardan Cetinkaya, MD study director
Guven Health Group
1 site in 1 country: see every site and its status.
Questions about this trial
What is this clinical trial studying?
A study testing LSST test in people with Athletic Performance and Physical Fitness, run by Guven Health Group at 1 site in Turkey (Türkiye).
The full registered description is in the About this study section and the official record.
Who may be eligible to take part?
The sponsor lists 3 inclusion and 3 exclusion criteria. Eligibility is decided by the study team after screening, so read the full criteria and contact a listed site.
Is this clinical trial currently recruiting?
The record says: finished, as of the sponsor's last update on 4 Feb 2021. Status can change between updates, so confirm with the study contact before making plans.
Where is the study taking place?
The record lists 1 site in Turkey (Türkiye). Whether a site is taking part right now should be confirmed with that site. See every site.
What are the possible benefits and risks?
They depend on the study and the treatment, and no study can promise a benefit. The study team explains the known risks during informed consent, before anyone joins; the record itself does not list them.
Are results available for this study?
The study is completed, but results are not available in the source record. That does not mean the treatment did or did not work.
How can a doctor refer a patient or contact the research team?
The record lists no contact. The official record names the sponsor, who can be asked directly. AzTrials does not enrol participants or take referrals.
What does the primary outcome measure?
Testing for LSST (time frame: 30 minutes). The study lists 4 primary outcomes in all. It is what the study was designed to measure, not a finding.
Where can I read the original study information?
Does a listing mean the treatment is approved or proven to work?
No. A listing means the study is registered. It does not show that the treatment is safe, works, or is approved by a regulator.
How often is this information updated?
AzTrials copies changed records from ClinicalTrials.gov every night and reloads the whole registry every week. The sponsor last updated this record on 4 Feb 2021.