Objective To study the injury characteristics in professional football and to follow the variation of injury incidence during a match, during a season and over consecutive seasons. Design Prospective ...

1 Université de Lille–Unité de Recherche Pluridisciplinaire Sport, Santé, Société–Equipe Activité Physique, Muscle, Santé–9 rue de l'Université–59790, Ronchin, France Purpose Little is known about ...

Objective: To describe the epidemiology of injuries in the Australian Football League (AFL) over four seasons. Methods: An injury was defined as “any physical or medical condition that caused a player ...

Background: Exercise addiction is not routinely screened for probably because available instruments take a long time to administer, their scoring may be complicated, and their interpretation is not ...

2 School of Human Movement and Sport Sciences, University of Ballarat, Victoria, Australia Objectives—To determine the rate of ankle injury and examine risk factors of ankle injuries in mainly ...

1 Department of Family Practice and Orthopaedics, Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada 2 School of Human Kinetics, Faculty of Education, University of British ...

1 School of Exercise Science, Australian Catholic University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia 2 School of Exercise and Nutrition Sciences and Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation, Queensland ...

Background The fast, random nature and characteristics of ice hockey make injury prevention a challenge as high-velocity impacts with players, sticks and boards occur and may result in a variety of ...

1 School of Exercise and Nutrition Sciences and Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia Background Hamstring strain injuries ...

Objective: To identify those risk factors that have the greatest impact on the incidence of head and neck injuries in international football. Method: A case–control study of players sustaining head ...

Correspondence to Dr Karin Grävare Silbernagel, Department of Physical Therapy, University of Delaware, 540 South College Ave, Newark, DE 19713, USA; kgs{at}udel.edu Aim This systematic review and ...

Background The effect of fixture congestion on injury rates and patterns has received scarce attention in elite football and existing investigations have not accounted for player rotation or examined ...