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NCT07733869

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NCT ID: NCT07733869
Lead Sponsor: Cairo UniversityOTHER
Official Title: The Effect of Adding Core Muscle Training With Shoulder Strengthening in Tennis Players: A Randomized Controlled Trial
Brief Summary: Compared with shoulder-only training and with continued tennis training alone, will the addition of core strengthening to shoulder training produce significantly greater improvements in flat serve ball speed in healthy tennis players?

Secondary Hypothesis:

Combined core + shoulder training will produce greater improvement in serve accuracy than shoulder-only training or tennis training alone.

Combined core + shoulder training will produce greater improvement in TGAR than shoulder-only training or tennis training alone.

Combined core + shoulder training will produce greater improvement in core strength/endurance and shoulder rotational strength than the comparator groups.
Conditions: Tennis
Tennis Serve Performance

Ages Eligible for Study: Adult (18-64)
Sexes Eligible for Study: All
Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: Yes
Eligibility Criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

Healthy adults aged 18-35 years

Recreational to competitive non-professional tennis players (currently playing ≥2 sessions/week for ≥1 year; NTRP 3.0-5.0 or equivalent ITN; no professional ranking or tour-level competition history)

Right- or left-hand dominant (serve arm recorded)

Able to perform a full flat serve without pain

Willing to maintain current tennis training routine and refrain from starting other new strength/conditioning programs during the study

Exclusion Criteria:

Current or history of shoulder pain/injury in the past 6 months (e.g., rotator cuff pathology, labral injury, impingement)

Low back pain or lumbar spine pathology in the past 6 months

Prior shoulder or spine surgery

Systemic conditions affecting neuromuscular function (e.g., uncontrolled diabetes, neurological disorders)

Pregnancy

Current participation in a structured core or shoulder strengthening program

Central Contacts: Ahmad El Melhat, PhDContact
a.melhat@bau.edu.lb+20 111 259 5022