Effects Provided by a Physiotherapy Treatment Preventing Lower Extremity Injuries in Female Football Players

Effects Provided by a Physiotherapy Treatment Preventing Lower Extremity Injuries in Female Football Players: A Controlled Clinical Trial

Background and justification: Women's football has a percentage of knee injury of 31.8%, and the anterior cruciate ligament lesion is between 2 and 4 times higher than the male. Injury prevention programs seek to improve the control of the neuromuscular recruitment, dynamic valgus and lumbopelvic stabilization. Recently Cibulka and Bennett have proposed a new prevention theory based on the strengthening of the external abductor and hip rotator muscles. The objective of this study is to design and carry out a physiotherapy program based on the prevention of modifiable risks factors.

Design: Controlled clinical trial

Methodology: 2 groups were formed, the first or experimental integrated by the female players from football team called CD Oliver (CDO), and control, integrated by the female players of the first team SD Huesca (SDH). The investigators will carried out an initial and final evaluation in which they will be collected data on variables of injury incidence, muscle length and torque. A physiotherapy program will be implemented that will consider three areas of weekly action during training, preventive force sessions, compensatory force sessions and physiotherapy sessions.

Inclusion Criteria:

• Have a valid federal license signed by the competent medical authority.
• Be part of a team registered in the federated league.
• Train 4 and a half hours a week or more.
• Compete and train in regulatory fields, with artificial grass.
• Have a staff composed of a qualified technician, registered and in possession of the corresponding validated license.
• Sign the informed consent.

Exclusion Criteria:

- Suffering a lower limb injury at the start of the study.