The Football Association Medical Research Programme: an audit of injuries in professional football—analysis of hamstring injuries

By C. Woods, R. Hawkins, S. Maltby, M. Hulse, A. Thomas, A. Hodson. British Journal of Sports Medicine, 2004

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• Strength Imbalances and Prevention of Hamstring Injury in Professional Soccer Players (2008, background): “A rate of 5 to 6 hamstring strains per club per season has been observed in English and Australian professional soccer, resulting in 90 days and 15 to 21 matches missed per club per season on average.(25,28,35) On the other hand, the reinjury rate for hamstring injuries has been found to be 12% to 3”
• Previous injury as a risk factor for injury in elite football: a prospective study over two consecutive seasons (2006, background): “Other player characteristics such as risk taking behaviour and various psychological factors are probably equally important,”
• 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).”
• Incidence, Risk, and Prevention of Hamstring Muscle Injuries in Professional Rugby Union (2006, result): “Fatigue is also implicated as a risk factor, as higher proportions of both new and recurrent match injuries occurred in the latter stages of each half; a similar effect has been reported in professional soccer.(52) High volumes of training in the week preceding a match were identified as possible ri”
• Preventive Effect of Eccentric Training on Acute Hamstring Injuries in Men’s Soccer (2011, background): “Hamstring muscle injury is the most prevalent injury in soccer, accounting for 12% to 16% of all injuries.(2,11,34) The incidence of hamstring injuries is 0.”