Bone Microarchitecture in Women Practicing Golf

Is Golf a Sport Suited to the Female Skeleton After 60 Years? Pilot Study Evaluating the Microarchitecture 3D Carriers and Noncarriers Bones

After the age of 50, one in three women and one in eight men will experience at least one fragility fracture during the rest of their lives. It is currently recognized that physical activity has an osteogenic actions, especially when it includes the impact transmitted to the skeleton. In this context, the investigators propose a study to determine whether the regular practice of golf could be particularly beneficial for the skeleton, not only in the lower limbs, due to repeated impacts to the ground when it requires sustained walking, but also the upper limbs due to the impacts transmitted by the club at the time of striking the ball, as has been amply demonstrated with racquet sports.

Study Overview

• Status: Completed
• Conditions: Bone Microarchitecture
• Intervention / Treatment: Other: 3D CT scan

Detailed Description

Each patient will have 1 blood samples and 1 measure of bone by 3D micro-tomography (3D CT Scan).These examinations and sampling will take place on 1 day.

• Study Type: Observational
• Enrollment (Actual): 67

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: 60 years to 75 years (Adult, Older Adult)
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Genders Eligible for Study: Female

• Sampling Method: Non-Probability Sample

Study Population

Subject practicing foot walk or golf or sedentary

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

• Golfers: Regular playing golf for over 2 years at 8 to 12 hours per week recruited into golf clubs.
• Walkers: regular practice of walking for over 2 years at 8 to 12 hours per week recruited into the walking clubs.
• Sedentary: no intensive physical activity (<2 hours / week), recruited in clubs seniors.

Exclusion Criteria:

• concomitant bone disease ,
• Hip prosthesis the dominant side
• Endocrinopathy
• hypercalcemia, vitamin D deficiency, hypo- or hyper calciuria
• Active smoking (more than 5 cigarettes / day), chronic alcoholism,
• Treatments received in the previous six months and resounding on bone metabolism such growth promoters, all osteoporosis, corticosteroids.

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Number of groups / cohorts

3

Cohorts and Interventions

Group / Cohort	Intervention / Treatment
Subject practicing golf and accept bone measure; Each patient will have 1 blood sample and 1 measure of bone by 3D micro-tomography	Other: 3D CT scan; Measure of bone micro-architecture by 3D micro-tomography
Subject practicing foot walk and accept bone measure; Each patient will have 1 blood sample and 1 measure of bone by 3D micro-tomography	Other: 3D CT scan; Measure of bone micro-architecture by 3D micro-tomography
Subject sedentary and accept bone measure; Each patient will have 1 blood sample and 1 measure of bone by 3D micro-tomography	Other: 3D CT scan; Measure of bone micro-architecture by 3D micro-tomography

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Bone volume / tissue volume	Measure of Bone volume / tissue volume by the 3D CT scan	day 1

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Saint Etienne
• Investigators: Principal Investigator: Thierry THOMAS, MD-PhD, CHU Saint-Etienne

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start: November 1, 2009
• Primary Completion (Actual): June 1, 2013
• Study Completion (Actual): June 1, 2013

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: September 7, 2015
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: September 8, 2015
• First Posted (Estimate): September 9, 2015

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Estimate): September 9, 2015
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: September 8, 2015
• Last Verified: September 1, 2015

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Keywords: Bone microarchitecture; Playing golf; Walkers
• Other Study ID Numbers: 0801092; 2008-A01265-50 (Other Identifier: AFSSAPS)