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Effects of two neuromuscular training programs on running biomechanics with load carriage: a study protocol for a randomised controlled trial

BACKGROUND: In recent years, athletes have ventured into ultra-endurance and adventure racing events, which tests their ability to race, navigate, and survive. These events often require race participants to carry some form of load, to bear equipment for navigation and survival purposes. Previous st...

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Autores principales: Liew, Bernard X. W., Morris, Susan, Keogh, Justin W. L., Appleby, Brendyn, Netto, Kevin
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5075409/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27770784
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12891-016-1271-9
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Appleby, Brendyn
Netto, Kevin
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Netto, Kevin
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description BACKGROUND: In recent years, athletes have ventured into ultra-endurance and adventure racing events, which tests their ability to race, navigate, and survive. These events often require race participants to carry some form of load, to bear equipment for navigation and survival purposes. Previous studies have reported specific alterations in biomechanics when running with load which potentially influence running performance and injury risk. We hypothesize that a biomechanically informed neuromuscular training program would optimize running mechanics during load carriage to a greater extent than a generic strength training program. METHODS: This will be a two group, parallel randomized controlled trial design, with single assessor blinding. Thirty healthy runners will be recruited to participate in a six weeks neuromuscular training program. Participants will be randomized into either a generic training group, or a biomechanically informed training group. Primary outcomes include self-determined running velocity with a 20 % body weight load, jump power, hopping leg stiffness, knee extensor and triceps-surae strength. Secondary outcomes include running kinetics and kinematics. Assessments will occur at baseline and post-training. DISCUSSION: To our knowledge, no training programs are available that specifically targets a runner’s ability to carry load while running. This will provide sport scientists and coaches with a foundation to base their exercise prescription on. TRIAL REGISTRATION: ANZCTR (ACTRN12616000023459) (14 Jan 2016) ELECTRONIC SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: The online version of this article (doi:10.1186/s12891-016-1271-9) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.
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spelling pubmed-50754092016-10-28 Effects of two neuromuscular training programs on running biomechanics with load carriage: a study protocol for a randomised controlled trial Liew, Bernard X. W. Morris, Susan Keogh, Justin W. L. Appleby, Brendyn Netto, Kevin BMC Musculoskelet Disord Study Protocol BACKGROUND: In recent years, athletes have ventured into ultra-endurance and adventure racing events, which tests their ability to race, navigate, and survive. These events often require race participants to carry some form of load, to bear equipment for navigation and survival purposes. Previous studies have reported specific alterations in biomechanics when running with load which potentially influence running performance and injury risk. We hypothesize that a biomechanically informed neuromuscular training program would optimize running mechanics during load carriage to a greater extent than a generic strength training program. METHODS: This will be a two group, parallel randomized controlled trial design, with single assessor blinding. Thirty healthy runners will be recruited to participate in a six weeks neuromuscular training program. Participants will be randomized into either a generic training group, or a biomechanically informed training group. Primary outcomes include self-determined running velocity with a 20 % body weight load, jump power, hopping leg stiffness, knee extensor and triceps-surae strength. Secondary outcomes include running kinetics and kinematics. Assessments will occur at baseline and post-training. DISCUSSION: To our knowledge, no training programs are available that specifically targets a runner’s ability to carry load while running. This will provide sport scientists and coaches with a foundation to base their exercise prescription on. TRIAL REGISTRATION: ANZCTR (ACTRN12616000023459) (14 Jan 2016) ELECTRONIC SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: The online version of this article (doi:10.1186/s12891-016-1271-9) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users. BioMed Central 2016-10-22 /pmc/articles/PMC5075409/ /pubmed/27770784 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12891-016-1271-9 Text en © The Author(s). 2016 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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Liew, Bernard X. W.
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Keogh, Justin W. L.
Appleby, Brendyn
Netto, Kevin
Effects of two neuromuscular training programs on running biomechanics with load carriage: a study protocol for a randomised controlled trial
title Effects of two neuromuscular training programs on running biomechanics with load carriage: a study protocol for a randomised controlled trial
title_full Effects of two neuromuscular training programs on running biomechanics with load carriage: a study protocol for a randomised controlled trial
title_fullStr Effects of two neuromuscular training programs on running biomechanics with load carriage: a study protocol for a randomised controlled trial
title_full_unstemmed Effects of two neuromuscular training programs on running biomechanics with load carriage: a study protocol for a randomised controlled trial
title_short Effects of two neuromuscular training programs on running biomechanics with load carriage: a study protocol for a randomised controlled trial
title_sort effects of two neuromuscular training programs on running biomechanics with load carriage: a study protocol for a randomised controlled trial
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5075409/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27770784
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12891-016-1271-9
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