Clinical trialNCT04810130CompletedInterventional

Physiological Effects of Soccer Heading

SponsorChildren's Hospital of PhiladelphiaEnrollment27Repeated Head Impacts

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Summary

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There is growing concern for the resulting neurological and physiological outcomes from repeated head impacts in sports that do not manifest into traditional concussion symptoms. Specifically, there is evidence of immediate physiological deficits following controlled soccer heading. This study will compare the physiological changes of adolescents completing a set of soccer headers to those randomized to a set of soccer kicks to evaluate the effect of repetitive head impacts.

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Investigators

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Christina L Master, MD
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Study Chair
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Kristy B Arbogast, PhD
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Principal Investigator
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Sites

1 registered facility, with the per-site recruitment status where the registry publishes one. ClinicalTrials.gov does not publish per-site enrollment counts.

United States

Children'S Hospital of Philadelphia
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

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Drugs studied

No drug or biological interventions are in our data for this study. It may test a procedure, device or behavioral intervention, or the intervention list isn't in our current snapshot. See the registry record ↗. Why? →

Registration & key dates

Registry attributes as recorded on the ClinicalTrials.gov study record.

Start: 15 Dec 2020
Primary completion: 18 Dec 2021
Completion: 19 Dec 2021
Last update posted: 10 Nov 2022
Registered enrollment: 27
Registry id: NCT04810130

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