@article{ref1,
title="Cluster randomised control trial for cricket injury prevention programme (CIPP): a protocol paper",
journal="Injury prevention",
year="2019",
author="Soomro, Najeebullah and Chua, Nina and Freeston, Jonathan and Ferdinands, Rene E. D. and Sanders, Ross",
volume="25",
number="3",
pages="166-174",
abstract="BACKGROUND: Injury prevention programmes (IPPs) are effective in reducing injuries among adolescent team sports. However, there is no validated cricket-specific IPP despite the high incidence of musculoskeletal injuries among amateur cricketers. <br><br>OBJECTIVES: To evaluate whether a cricket injury prevention programme (CIPP) as a pretraining warm-up or post-training cool-down can reduce injury rates in amateur cricket players. <br><br>METHODS: CIPP is a cluster randomised controlled trial which includes 36 male amateur club teams having cricket players aged 14-40 years to be randomly assigned to three study arms: warm-up, cool-down and control (n=12 teams, 136 players in each arm). The intervention groups will perform 15 min CIPP either as a pretraining warm-up or a post-training cool-down. OUTCOME MEASURES: The primary outcome measure will be injury incidence per 1000 player hours and the secondary outcome measures will be whether IPP as a warm-up is better than IPP as a cool-down, and the adherence to the intervention. TRIAL REGISTRATION NUMBER: ACTRN 1261700047039.<br><br>© Article author(s) (or their employer(s) unless otherwise stated in the text of the article) 2017. All rights reserved. No commercial use is permitted unless otherwise expressly granted.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1353-8047",
doi="10.1136/injuryprev-2017-042518",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/injuryprev-2017-042518"
}