Validity of an Upper Extremity Physical Performance Test Battery in Healthy Athletes

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 12 to 40 years
• All sexes
• Healthy volunteers accepted
• Child, Adult

Trial locations and contacts

1 site in 1 country. Contact the study team or a site near you to ask about taking part.

About this study

Official title: Construct and Predictive Validity of an Upper Extremity Physical Performance Test Battery in Healthy Athletes: a Cross-sectional and Prospective Study

Conditions

Athletic Injuries

Being tested

Physical performance test - Closed Kinetic Chain Upper Extremity Stability Test (CKCUEST), Physical performance test - modified Closed Kinetic Chain Upper Extremity Stability Test (m-CKCUEST), Physical performance test - Seated Seated Single Arm Shot Put Test (SSASPT), Physical performance test - Upper Limb Rotation Test (ULRT), Physical performance test - Shoulder endurance test (SET)

Medical subject headings

Athletic Injuries

What participants receive

What participants receive. In a randomised study each person is assigned to one group by chance.

• Physical performance test - Closed Kinetic Chain Upper Extremity Stability Test (CKCUEST)Other

  The test is performed in a pushup position with the hands placed 91.4 cm apart on strips of athletic tape. The person reaches with alternating hands across the body to touch the piece of tape under the opposing hand. The number of cross-body touches performed in 15 seconds is recorded. In total, three 15-s test trials were performed, with 45 s rest between each trial.

• Physical performance test - modified Closed Kinetic Chain Upper Extremity Stability Test (m-CKCUEST)Other

  The test is performed in a pushup position with the hands one half-arm span apart on strips of athletic tape. The person reaches with alternating hands across the body to touch the piece of tape under the opposing hand. The number of cross-body touches performed in 15 seconds is recorded. In total, three 15-s test trials were performed, with 45 s rest between each trial.

• Physical performance test - Seated Seated Single Arm Shot Put Test (SSASPT)Other

  Set up requires that the subject is placed in a seated position with their back against the wall, and a 2kg medicine ball held in a shot put position. When ready, the subject will perform a shot put motion to project the medicine ball as far as possible. The average of three trials is recorded for each arm.

• Physical performance test - Upper Limb Rotation Test (ULRT)Other

  Participants starts in a modified (on elbows) push-up position. Participants are positioned next to a wall in order to allow the shoulder, the elbow epicondyle, the greater trochanter and the lateral malleolus of the ankle to touch the wall. Participants are asked to perform a trunk rotation, coupled with an external rotation of the shoulder in a 90°-90° position (90° abduction, 90° external rotation) touching the tape placed vertically on the wall as quickly as possible for 15 s. Finally, three 15-s test trials were performed, with 45 s rest between each trial.

• Physical performance test - Shoulder endurance test (SET)Other

  Participants were instructed to stand up straight with their back against a wall. The tested arm was placed in a 90°forward flexion holding a 1-m long thera-band® fixed at shoulder height on a graduated stick. Participants were asked to pull the thera-band® from the starting position 90°forward flexion-to a 90° external rotation and 90° abduction (90°90°position) at an alternated cadence given by a metronome. Males are asked to pull a green thera-band (2.1 kg) and females a red thera-band (1.7 kg). Repetitions are performed until the participant is fatigued.

• Physical performance test - Posterior shoulder endurance test (PSET)Other

  The participant is positioned prone, with the test shoulder off the table and the arm perpendicular to the floor. A bar on a stick is adjusted for each patient and fixed at the point that the participant's shoulder reaches 90° of horizontal abduction, the point at which the participant was to hold the arm at the top of the arc of motion for 1 second. The participant held a weight equal to 2% of his body weight (rounded to the nearest 0.5 kg). Starting with the arm perpendicular to the floor, the participant horizontally abducted his arm to 90 degrees at a cadence of 30 beats per minute. Repetitions are performed until the participant is fatigued.

• Analytical test - Shoulder StrengthOther

  shoulder external rotation and internal rotation measured with a hand held dynanometer

• Analytical test - Hand Grip StrengthOther

  Hand grip strength measured with a JAMAR Hand Dynamometer

• Analytical test - Shoulder Range of Motion (ROM)Other

  Passive external rotation in supine position with arm in 90° abduction - passive internal rotation in supine position with arm in 90° abduction.

• PROM - Kerlan-Jobe Orthopedic Clinic Shoulder and Elbow Score (KJOC-SES)Other

  The KJOC-SES survey is composed of ten 10-point questions to evaluate specifically the performance of overhead athletes, with the highest performance score of 100.

• PROM - Competitive State Anxiety Inventory-2 (CSAI-2)Other

  The Competitive State Anxiety Inventory scale contains 27 items. It a psychometric scale that asks the volunteer to rate, on a 4-point Likert scale, their coping skills for sports performance.

• PROM - General elf-efficacy scale (GSES).Other

  The GSES measures (10 statements) how a person deals with stressors/difficult situations in life. The scale is about a person's self-confidence that his or her actions are responsible for successful outcomes or, in other words, that one has control over challenging demands imposed by the environment.

What is being measured

The primary outcome is the main question the study is designed to answer.

1. Sports performance

   For tennis players: serve performance test (12 serves), consisting of serve velocity and accuracy

   • serve velocity: Peak SV was measured with a Stalker Professional sports radar Pro II+
   • serve accuracy: serve accuracy is evaluated based on a scoring system. Two points are awarded if the serve lands in the target area (target of 2x2 m down the "T"), only one point when serving into the serve box, and balls landing outside the serve box results in zero points. The score of every individual serve was summed up to a total score of a maximum of 24 points.
   • the average velocity and the total accuracy score is used for analysis

   For swimmers: time on 100m freestyle during competition event is used for analysis

   Measured: Baseline

2. New musculoskeletal injuries

   New musculoskeletal injuries registered by the OSTRC-H2 (The Oslo Sports Trauma Research Center Questionnaire on Health Problems)

   Measured: During the 1 year follow-up after baseline measurements

Timeline

From the start of the study to its completion; the mark is today. Estimated dates are the sponsor’s plan.

1. First posted1 Dec 2023
2. Study start22 Nov 2023
3. Primary completionNov 2029 (estimated)
4. Study completionNov 2029 (estimated)

Resources

• Official record on ClinicalTrials.govThe registry entry this page is built from, with its full change history.
• Other trials for Athletic InjuriesStudies 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.