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A prevention strategy to reduce the incidence of injury in high school basketball: a cluster randomized controlled trial
Emery CA, Rose MS, McAllister JR, Meeuwisse WH
Clinical Journal of Sport Medicine 2007 Jan;17(1):17-24
clinical trial
6/10 [Eligibility criteria: Yes; Random allocation: Yes; Concealed allocation: No; Baseline comparability: Yes; Blind subjects: No; Blind therapists: No; Blind assessors: Yes; Adequate follow-up: Yes; Intention-to-treat analysis: No; Between-group comparisons: Yes; Point estimates and variability: Yes. Note: Eligibility criteria item does not contribute to total score] *This score has been confirmed*

OBJECTIVE: To examine the effectiveness of a sport-specific balance training program in reducing injury in adolescent basketball. DESIGN: Cluster randomized controlled trial. SETTING: Twenty-five high schools in Calgary and surrounding area. SUBJECTS: Nine hundred and twenty high school basketball players (ages 12 to 18). INTERVENTION: Subjects were randomly allocated by school to the control (n = 426) and training group (n = 494). Both groups were taught a standardized warm-up program. The training group was also taught an additional warm-up component and a home-based balance training program using a wobble board. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: All injuries occurring during basketball that required medical attention and/or caused a player to be removed from that current session and/or miss a subsequent session were then recorded and assessed by a team therapist who was blinded to training group allocation. RESULTS: A basketball-specific balance training program was protective of acute-onset injuries in high school basketball (RR 0.71 (95% CI 0.5 to 0.99)). The protective effect found with respect to all injury (RR 0.8 (95% CI 0.57 to 1.11)), lower-extremity injury (RR 0.83 (95% CI 0.57 to 1.19)), and ankle sprain injury (RR 0.71 (95% CI 0.45 to 1.13)) were not statistically significant. Self-reported compliance to the intended home-based training program was poor (298/494 or 60.3%). CONCLUSIONS: A basketball-specific balance training program was effective in reducing acute-onset injuries in high school basketball. There was also a clinically relevant trend found with respect to the reduction of all, lower-extremity, and ankle sprain injury. Future research should include further development of neuromuscular prevention strategies in addition to further evaluation of methods to increase compliance to an injury-prevention training program in adolescents.
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