{"id":3043,"date":"2023-04-30T20:49:15","date_gmt":"2023-04-30T20:49:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/optimumsportsperformance.com\/blog\/?p=3043"},"modified":"2023-05-03T12:09:27","modified_gmt":"2023-05-03T12:09:27","slug":"using-randomized-controlled-trials-in-the-sports-medicine-and-performance-environment-is-it-time-to-reconsider-and-think-outside-the-methodological-box","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/optimumsportsperformance.com\/blog\/using-randomized-controlled-trials-in-the-sports-medicine-and-performance-environment-is-it-time-to-reconsider-and-think-outside-the-methodological-box\/","title":{"rendered":"Using randomized controlled trials in the sports medicine and performance environment: is it time to reconsider and think outside the methodological box?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I recently had the chance to work on a fun view point paper for the <em><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.jospt.org\/\">Journal of Orthopaedic &amp; Sports Physical Therapy<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/em> about ideas around analyzing data in the applied sports and rehab environments. While randomized controlled trials are considered a gold standard in medicine, the applied environment is a bit messy due to the lack of ability to control a host of factors and having the daily cadence and structure dictated by coaches and other decision-makers.<\/p>\n<p>Given these constraints, practitioners often lament that, <strong><em>&#8220;Research deals with group analysis but I deal with<\/em> N-of-1!&#8221;<\/strong>. Indeed, it can be challenging to sometimes see the connection between group-based research and the person standing in front of you, whose performance and health you are in charge of managing. I discussed this issue a bit back in 2018 with Aaron Coutts, Richard Pruna, and Allan McCall, in our paper <strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.researchgate.net\/publication\/326045937_Putting_the_'i'_Back_in_Team\">Putting the &#8216;i&#8217; back in\u00a0 team<\/a><\/span><\/strong>, where we laid out some approaches to handling individual-based analysis.<\/p>\n<p>In this recent view point myself and a group of great collaborators (Garrett Bullock, Tom Hughes, Charles A Thigpen, Chad E Cook, and Ellen Shanley) discuss ideas around natural experiments and N-of-1 methodology as it applies to the sports and rehabilitation environments.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.researchgate.net\/publication\/370072388_Using_randomized_controlled_trials_in_the_sports_medicine_and_performance_environment_is_it_time_to_reconsider_and_think_outside_the_methodological_box\">Using randomized controlled trials in the sports medicine and performance environment: is it time to reconsider and think outside the methodological box?<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently had the chance to work on a fun view point paper for the Journal of Orthopaedic &amp; Sports Physical Therapy about ideas around analyzing data in the applied sports and rehab environments. While randomized controlled trials are considered a gold standard in medicine, the applied environment is a bit messy due to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports-analytics","category-sports-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/optimumsportsperformance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/optimumsportsperformance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/optimumsportsperformance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/optimumsportsperformance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/optimumsportsperformance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3043"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/optimumsportsperformance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3043\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3046,"href":"https:\/\/optimumsportsperformance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3043\/revisions\/3046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/optimumsportsperformance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/optimumsportsperformance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/optimumsportsperformance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}