Risk Factors for Injuries in Football

By A. Arnason, S. B. Sigurdsson, A. Gudmundsson, I. Holme, L. Engebretsen, R. Bahr. American Journal of Sports Medicine, 2004

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Strength Imbalances and Prevention of Hamstring Injury in Professional Soccer Players (2008, background): “Research on sports injury prevention is effectively emerging as a new field in medicine.(1,11-13,17,20) This field of research should have the potential to glean new knowledge and to open up new ways of managing the annoyance of injury in highly skilled as well as recreational athletes.”
Preventive Effect of Eccentric Training on Acute Hamstring Injuries in Men’s Soccer (2011, background): “Age, previous injury, and competition level are known risk factors of sustaining a hamstring injury.(3,34) Thus, in further analysis, the initial model was adjusted for the players’ age, competition level, and a covariate indicating whether the players had had a previous hamstring injury.”
Prevention of hamstring strains in elite soccer: an intervention study (2007, background): “…kicking and sudden accelerations like sprinting (Lysholm & Wiklander, 1987), Australian Rules football (Orchard et al., 1997; Orchard, 2001; Verrall et al., 2001, 2005), American football (Heiser et al., 1984) and soccer (Arnason et al., 1996, 2004b; Hawkins & Fuller, 1999; Woods et al., 2004).”