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Last refreshed on: 12 December 2020
Main ID:  NCT02104258
Date of registration: 22/03/2014
Prospective Registration: No
Primary sponsor: Aspetar
Public title: Rehabilitation of Acute Hamstring Injuries in Male Athletes
Scientific title: Rehabilitation of Acute Hamstring Injuries in Male Athletes: A Prospective Single-site Randomized Controlled Clinical Trial Comparing Two Rehabilitation Protocols With Different Emphasis on Eccentric Exercises
Date of first enrolment: March 2014
Target sample size: 90
Recruitment status: Completed
URL:  https://clinicaltrials.gov/show/NCT02104258
Study type:  Interventional
Study design:  Allocation: Randomized. Intervention model: Parallel Assignment. Primary purpose: Treatment. Masking: Double (Investigator, Outcomes Assessor).  
Phase:  N/A
Countries of recruitment
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Name:     Roald Bahr, Prof. PhD MD
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Affiliation:  Aspetar Orthopaedic and Sports Medicine Hospital
Name:     Erik Witvrouw, Prof. PhD PT
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Affiliation:  Aspetar Orthopaedic and Sports Medicine Hoslpital
Name:     Rodney Whiteley, PhD, PT
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Affiliation:  Aspetar Orthopaedic and Sports Medicine Hospital
Name:     Arnlaug Wangensteen, MSc
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Affiliation:  Aspetar Orthopaedic and Sports Medicine Hospital, Norwegian School for Sports Science
Name:     Johannes Tol, PhD MD
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Affiliation:  Aspetar Orthopaedic and Sports Medicine Hospital
Key inclusion & exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

- Male athletes

- Age 18-50 years

- Acute onset posterior thigh pain when training or competing, identified as:

1. Patient reported sudden event

2. Patient reported pain in posterior thigh

- Clinical diagnosis of an acute hamstring muscle strain injury, defined as:

1. Localised pain during palpation of hamstring muscle

2. Increasing pain during isometric contraction

3. Localised pain when performing a passive straight leg raise test

- MRI confirmed isolated hamstring lesion (increased high signal intensity on fat
saturated sequences)

- MRI performed =5 days from injury

- Available for =3 physiotherapy sessions per week at Aspetar

- Available for follow-up

Exclusion Criteria:

- Patients with verified or suspected previous hamstring injury within the last 6 months
in the same leg

- Chronic hamstring complaints >2 months

- Grade III injury including complete hamstring disruption or avulsion of all tendons

- Contraindications to MRI

- Patients that do not have an intention to return to full sport activity

- Patients that do not want to receive one of the two therapies



Age minimum: 18 Years
Age maximum: 50 Years
Gender: Male
Health Condition(s) or Problem(s) studied
Strains
Intervention(s)
Other: Physiotherapy ASPETAR+
Other: Physiotherapy ASPETAR
Primary Outcome(s)
Time to Return to Sport (RTS) [Time Frame: After the initial injury, patients will be followed daily during working days for the duration of time until they return to RTS, with an expected average of 25 days up to 1 year]
Secondary Outcome(s)
Re-injury within 2 months, 6 months and 12 months after RTS [Time Frame: The patients will be monitored by phone 2 months, 6 months and 12 months after RTS]
Secondary ID(s)
CMO/000047/fj
HAR47
Source(s) of Monetary Support
Please refer to primary and secondary sponsors
Secondary Sponsor(s)
Ethics review
Results
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