Project summary
The project aims to investigate the impact of lower limb symmetry on the prognosis of rugby players and dancers with lower limb musculoskeletal injuries. By studying the correlation between parameters and injury outcomes, the study aims to improve diagnostic accuracy for similar injuries in the future. The findings will guide the design of individualized recovery programs, addressing inequalities from the start to maximize recovery and improve functional outcomes. The project aims to improve injuries management in sports and dance, improving both short-term and long-term recovery outcomes and performance.
Research Setting
Research can be conducted at your institute/dance school/ training or Mile End Hospital, Sports and Exercise Medicine department, Queen Mary University.
For this study, we would like to conduct a range of strength and biomechanical tests. We will also ask you to complete a set of questionnaires which will relate to your injury, we will ask you to record where you get pain on an app called Navigate Pain and perform a set of biomechanical tests on Force Deck which stores de-identified data on an EU server.
We will conduct these tests when you first attend, 6 weeks later. Each participant’s data collection would take about 20-25 minutes.
The testing will involve some biomechanical jumps, squats and leg strength tests. We ask you to do some movements while standing on force plates. These movements are balancing on one leg, squatting, jumping and jumping off a box. You only need to do the tests you are comfortable doing and can stop at any time.
For more information, please refer to the Participants information sheet and consent forms which is attached with the email.
Confidentiality and ethical approval
We received the ethical approval from our university’ ethical committee. All the data collected at each visit will be de-identified and anonymised. Data will be stored in on a secure database and in password protected laptops.
Queen Mary Ethics of Research Committee reference number: QMREC2018/48/134
Inclusion Criteria
- We want dancers of age group 18 to 65 years,
- Any dancer with or without lower limb musculoskeletal injury who are willing to participate.
- If dancers aren’t sure about their injury, if they have some pain which they are not clear about, they can reach out to us through given email anytime without working hours i.e., Mon-Friday 9a.m. to 5 p.m.
Exclusion Criteria
- A non-dancer less than 18 years or more than 65 years of age and
- dancers diagnosed with any cardiovascular, rheumatologic, neurological condition or not willing to participate.
Benefits to the participant
If dancers wish to get feedback on their testing, we can give them the test report of their strength and functional tasks results. This might be useful information for you and your clinician (doctor, physiotherapist, etc.) to guide your rehabilitation or training. These tests can be expensive but there will be no cost for them.
Contact details
Following are the name and details of investigators/supervisor in our research project:
Principal Investigator
- Name: Prof. Dylan Morrissey
- University: Queen Mary University of London, William Harvey Research Institute
- Email: d.morrissey (at) qmul.ac.uk
Student investigator
- Name: Ritika Sony
- University: Queen Mary University of London, William Harvey Research Institute
- Email: r.sony (at) smd23.qmul.ac.uk
Student Co-investigators
- Name: Merve Bodur
- University: Queen Mary University of London, William Harvey Research Institute
- Email: m.bodur (at) qmul.ac.uk
- Name: Krushi Pandya
- School or Institute: Queen Mary’s University of London
- Email: ha23808 (at) qmul.ac.uk
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