ACL InjuryNCT04342000
The Effect of Movement Education on Jumping/Landing Quality in High School Athletes
A study testing Movement education workshop in people with ACL Injury, run by Hospital for Special Surgery, New York.
Trial summary
While much evidence exists to support the association between physical training and improved motor skill performance, there is little evidence that supports the association between movement education and improved motor skill performance. Read more about this study
- Who is it for?
- Ages 14 to 18 yearsHealthy volunteers can take part
- Conditions the study is for
- ACL Injury
- What is being tested?
- Movement education workshop
- Could I receive a placebo?
- Yes, some participants may receive a placebo
- How many people
- 0 participants
- Where
- No sites listed yet
- Study dates
- 28 Oct 2019to 15 Aug 2023
- 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 14 to 18 years
- All sexes
- Healthy volunteers accepted
- Child, Adult
Who may be able to join
- Age 14-18
- Participates in a high-risk sport for ACL injury (e.g. basketball, soccer, lacrosse)
Who cannot join
- Current injuries that would interfere with ability to perform vertical, box, broad jumps
- History of knee injuries or surgeries
About this study
Official title: The Effect of Movement Education on Jumping/Landing Quality in High School Athletes: A Randomized Controlled Trial
While much evidence exists to support the association between physical training and improved motor skill performance, there is little evidence that supports the association between movement education and improved motor skill performance. In short, the investigators would like to study the effect of movement education (as provided by the Sports Safety athlete education program) on immediate and sustained changes in motor skill performance (jumping and landing technique) using the Dynamic Athletic Research Institute (DARI) motion capture system.
This study will evaluate the change in motor performance for high school athletes who did and did not attend the Sport Safety athlete Education Program.
Read the detailed description
Successful models of injury prevention in occupational health settings focus largely on motor skill education for employees. Sports-related injury prevention programs lack this critical component. This research question is being asked to help inform the development of a comprehensive implementation strategy for a high school sports injury prevention program.
The Hospital for Special Surgery (HSS) Sports Safety ACL Program is a unique, public health approach to ACL injury risk management. The program offers pioneering education to those directly responsible for the safety of young athletes. The program offers diverse educational opportunities and innovative risk management resources directly to coaches, parents, administrators, and young athletes. The program has already held over 200 live workshops, teaching coaches, parents and young athletes how to identify injury risk factors and how the relationship between movement quality and sports performance impacts injury rates. Though several research studies have been conducted with the HSS Sport Safety Program, this study is the first to evaluate the association between athlete motor learning and movement quality.
Currently anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injury prevention programs focus on clinicians and coaches leading a series of neuromuscular training exercises repeatedly throughout a sports season to improve athlete strength, balance, flexibility, and agility. While this has shown been shown to be effective in controlled research settings, there have been many problems with implementation, including low compliance. Hartigan et al recently conducted a study showing that athletes had improved jumping and landing technique after viewing video feedback. This is evidence that movement education/feedback has the ability to affect motor skills. Demonstrating an association between motor skill education and improved movement quality would allow the responsibility of ACL injury prevention to be more readily shared by both sports medicine clinicians and athletes.
This evidence would provide support for the public health approach to ACL injury risk management on which the HSS Sport Safety Program was based. In addition, providing solid evidence of the program's success will make the program more marketable to schools, clubs, and other sports groups nationally and internationally.
- Conditions
- ACL Injury
- Being tested
- Movement education workshop, Sham Education Workshop
- Keywords
- movement, education, injury, prevention
- Medical subject headings
- Anterior Cruciate Ligament Injuries, Wounds and Injuries
What participants receive
What participants receive. In a randomised study each person is assigned to one group by chance.
Movement education workshopOther
30 minutes total:
- 10 minutes sedentary activity (LE injury risk factor and anatomy instruction)
- 10 minutes moderate activity (guided discovery of body segment alignment and stability with squat, lunge, plank, jump, and hop technique assessment and corrective feedback)
- 10 minutes vigorous activity (practical application of body segment alignment and stability including hopping, jumping, and running activities with technique assessment and corrective feedback)
For the month following the athlete workshop, prior to the final assessment, subjects will receive periodic text message instructions. These messages will include key facts and takeaways from the workshop, and reminders about correct form.
Sham Education WorkshopOther
30 minutes total:
- 10 minute sedentary activity (sleep, nutrition, and hydration instruction)
- 10 minutes moderate activity (performance of squat, lunge, plank, jump, and hop activities - no technique assessment or corrective feedback)
- 10 minutes vigorous activity (hopping, jumping, and running activities - no technique assessment and corrective feedback)
| Study group | Role | What they receive |
|---|---|---|
| Intervention Group | Experimental | Movement Education Workshop Receives: Other: Movement education workshop |
| Control Group | Sham comparator | Sham Education Workshop Receives: Other: Sham Education Workshop |
What is being measured
The primary outcome is the main question the study is designed to answer.
Dynamic Valgus Degrees
dynamic valgus degrees in vertical jump as measured by DARI
Measured: Change from baseline to immediately following intervention (average of 30 minutes after baseline),1 month after baseline
Dynamic Valgus Depth
dynamic valgus depth in cm in vertical jump as measured by DARI
Measured: Change from baseline to immediately following intervention (average of 30 minutes after baseline),1 month after baseline
Secondary outcomes (1)
Athlete education outcomes
as measured by pre- and post-education surveys
Measured: Change from baseline to immediately following intervention (average of 30 minutes after baseline),1 month after baseline
Timeline
From the start of the study to its completion; the mark is today. Estimated dates are the sponsor’s plan.
- First posted10 Apr 2020
- Study start28 Oct 2019
- Primary completion15 Aug 2023
- Study completion15 Aug 2023
Why it stopped: Study was updated and is now under IRB #2023-0499
Resources
- Official record on ClinicalTrials.govThe registry entry this page is built from, with its full change history.
- Other trials for ACL InjuryStudies of the same condition, open and under way.
- More trials run by Hospital for Special Surgery, New YorkThe sponsor's other registered studies.
- 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
- Other
- Allocation
- Randomised
- Intervention model
- Parallel groups
- Masking
- Double blind
- Who is masked
- Participant, Outcomes assessor
- Enrolment
- 0 participants (actual)
Sponsor and investigators
- Lead sponsor
- Hospital for Special Surgery, New York
- Sponsor type
- University, hospital or other
- Responsible party
- Sponsor
- Investigators
- Robert G Marx, MD, Principal investigator, Hospital for Special Surgery, New York
IDs, dates and publications
- ClinicalTrials.gov ID
- NCT04342000
- Sponsor's protocol ID
- 2019-1095
- Status last verified
- Aug 2023
- First submitted
- 24 Mar 2020
- Last updated
- 21 Dec 2023
- Results posted
- No
- Data monitoring committee
- No
- FDA-regulated drug
- No
- FDA-regulated device
- No
- Individual data sharing
- No
Study at a glance
From the registry record, last updated by the sponsor on 21 Dec 2023. Recruitment status is as the sponsor reported it: confirm with the study team.
- Official title
- The Effect of Movement Education on Jumping/Landing Quality in High School Athletes: A Randomized Controlled Trial
- ClinicalTrials.gov ID
- NCT04342000
- Acronym / sponsor ID
- 2019-1095
- Conditions
- ACL Injury
- Keywords
- movement, education, injury, prevention
- Study type
- Interventional
- Recruitment status
- WithdrawnReason stopped: Study was updated and is now under IRB #2023-0499
- Enrolment
- 0 participants (actual)
- Lead sponsor
- Hospital for Special Surgery, New YorkUniversity, hospital or other
- Study start
- 28 Oct 2019 (actual)
- Primary completion
- 15 Aug 2023 (actual)
- Study completion
- 15 Aug 2023 (actual)
- First posted
- 10 Apr 2020 (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.
While much evidence exists to support the association between physical training and improved motor skill performance, there is little evidence that supports the association between movement education and improved motor skill performance. In short, the investigators would like to study the effect of movement education (as provided by the Sports Safety athlete education program) on immediate and sustained changes in motor skill performance (jumping and landing technique) using the Dynamic Athletic Research Institute (DARI) motion capture system.
This study will evaluate the change in motor performance for high school athletes who did and did not attend the Sport Safety athlete Education Program.
Detailed description
Successful models of injury prevention in occupational health settings focus largely on motor skill education for employees. Sports-related injury prevention programs lack this critical component. This research question is being asked to help inform the development of a comprehensive implementation strategy for a high school sports injury prevention program.
The Hospital for Special Surgery (HSS) Sports Safety ACL Program is a unique, public health approach to ACL injury risk management. The program offers pioneering education to those directly responsible for the safety of young athletes. The program offers diverse educational opportunities and innovative risk management resources directly to coaches, parents, administrators, and young athletes. The program has already held over 200 live workshops, teaching coaches, parents and young athletes how to identify injury risk factors and how the relationship between movement quality and sports performance impacts injury rates. Though several research studies have been conducted with the HSS Sport Safety Program, this study is the first to evaluate the association between athlete motor learning and movement quality.
Currently anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injury prevention programs focus on clinicians and coaches leading a series of neuromuscular training exercises repeatedly throughout a sports season to improve athlete strength, balance, flexibility, and agility. While this has shown been shown to be effective in controlled research settings, there have been many problems with implementation, including low compliance. Hartigan et al recently conducted a study showing that athletes had improved jumping and landing technique after viewing video feedback. This is evidence that movement education/feedback has the ability to affect motor skills. Demonstrating an association between motor skill education and improved movement quality would allow the responsibility of ACL injury prevention to be more readily shared by both sports medicine clinicians and athletes.
This evidence would provide support for the public health approach to ACL injury risk management on which the HSS Sport Safety Program was based. In addition, providing solid evidence of the program's success will make the program more marketable to schools, clubs, and other sports groups nationally and internationally.
Study design
- Primary purpose
- Other
- Allocation
- Randomised
- Intervention model
- Parallel groups
- Masking
- Double blind (participant, outcomes assessor)
- Number of arms
- 2
| Arm | Type | Receives |
|---|---|---|
| Intervention Group | Experimental | Other: Movement education workshopMovement Education Workshop |
| Control Group | Sham comparator | Other: Sham Education WorkshopSham Education Workshop |
Who may qualify
- Ages
- 14 to 18 years
- Sex
- All
- Healthy volunteers
- Accepted
- Age groups
- Child, Adult
Key inclusion criteria (2 listed)
- Age 14-18
- Participates in a high-risk sport for ACL injury (e.g. basketball, soccer, lacrosse)
Key exclusion criteria (2 listed)
- Current injuries that would interfere with ability to perform vertical, box, broad jumps
- History of knee injuries or surgeries
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Movement education workshop30 minutes total: * 10 minutes sedentary activity (LE injury risk factor and anatomy instruction) * 10 minutes moderate activity (guided discovery of body segment alignment and stability with squat, lunge, plank, jump, and hop technique assessment and corrective feedback) * 10 minutes vigorous activity (practical application of body segment alignment and stability including hopping, jumping, and running activities with technique assessment and corrective feedback) For the month following the athlete workshop, prior to the final assessment, subjects will receive periodic text message instructions. These messages will include key facts and takeaways from the workshop, and reminders about correct form. | Other | Intervention Group |
| Sham Education Workshop30 minutes total: * 10 minute sedentary activity (sleep, nutrition, and hydration instruction) * 10 minutes moderate activity (performance of squat, lunge, plank, jump, and hop activities - no technique assessment or corrective feedback) * 10 minutes vigorous activity (hopping, jumping, and running activities - no technique assessment and corrective feedback) | Other | Control Group |
Primary outcome
Dynamic Valgus Degrees
Time frame: Change from baseline to immediately following intervention (average of 30 minutes after baseline),1 month after baseline
dynamic valgus degrees in vertical jump as measured by DARI
Dynamic Valgus Depth
Time frame: Change from baseline to immediately following intervention (average of 30 minutes after baseline),1 month after baseline
dynamic valgus depth in cm in vertical jump as measured by DARI
1 secondary outcome
Athlete education outcomes
Time frame: Change from baseline to immediately following intervention (average of 30 minutes after baseline),1 month after baseline
Results and safety
The study was withdrawn before enrolling participants, so there are no results.
Research links
- Official record on ClinicalTrials.govLast updated by the sponsor 21 Dec 2023.
- Individual participant dataSharing planned: No
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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.
Robert G Marx, MD principal investigator
Hospital for Special Surgery, New York
Questions about this trial
What is this clinical trial studying?
A study testing Movement education workshop in people with ACL Injury, run by Hospital for Special Surgery, New York.
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 2 inclusion and 2 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: withdrawn, as of the sponsor's last update on 21 Dec 2023. Status can change between updates, so confirm with the study contact before making plans.
What are the possible benefits and risks?
They depend on the study and the treatment, and no study can promise a benefit. Some participants in this study may receive a placebo. 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 was withdrawn before enrolling participants, so there are no results.
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?
Dynamic Valgus Degrees (time frame: Change from baseline to immediately following intervention (average of 30 minutes after baseline),1 month after baseline). The study lists 2 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 21 Dec 2023; AzTrials last refreshed its copy on 7 Nov 2026.