Health Education for Physiotherapy in Soccer Players
Health Education for Physiotherapy in Soccer Players
INTRODUCTION. Health education based on interventions with new information and communication
 technologies.

 OBJECTIVE. To compare the effectiveness of an educational physiotherapy intervention in
 footballers, in face-to-face mode (conference) versus an intervention mediated by ICT, on the
 risk of medical injury with the Functional Movement Screen [FMS].

 MATERIAL AND METHODS. A randomized clinical trial (RCT) was carried out. The population
 consisted of 100 participants divided into two groups (ICT n = 50) and (Conference n = 50),
 with an average age of 18.2 versus 18.3 years for a conference. and ICT respectively.
Recruitment phase: In this phase the athletes were contacted to explain the objectives of the
 study and the interventions; those who agreed to participate filled out the questionnaire to
 verify the inclusion and exclusion criteria, later those who met the criteria gave written
 informed consent. This phase was held in a week in the sports team club Initial evaluation
 phase: In this phase, the contact form and the general characteristics of the population were
 filled out and the initial evaluation of knowledge about sports injuries was done in all the
 participants of the investigation. Likewise, the participants were assigned to each of the
 two interventions at random. For the random assignment, the Excel 2010® program was used,
 where random numbers were assigned to the sampling frame.

 Intervention phase: The educational intervention in health was developed from physiotherapy
 in each of the groups (conference or mediated by ICT) according to the allocation group as
 explained below.

 Final evaluation phase: The final evaluation of knowledge about the prevention of injuries in
 football was made to both groups of the investigation.
Inclusion Criteria:

 -  Athletes over 18 years of age belonging to the La Equidad sports club.

 -  Athletes with a previous sporting age of more than three years.Athletes who have taken
 the entrance exam for the interdisciplinary team of the previous or initial physical
 condition of the La Equidad sports club.

 -  Resident in Bogotá or municipalities of Cundinamarca.

 Exclusion Criteria:

 -  Alterations of perception or behavior that hinder educational interventions.

 -  Other co-morbidities reported by the user or in the clinical history of the sport that
 limit the intervention (Example: hearing loss, kyphosis, memory deficit or cognitive
 attention, visual limitation).

 -  Users who do not have training in educational computer skills.

 -  Not having a computer with an internet connection.