Authors: Paolo Perna and Marco Beato Hamstring injuries continue to be the most common muscle injury in professional football. Despite the practitioners’ efforts, the high re-injury rate remains an issue (1). This makes the Return-to-Play (RTP) decisions even more challenging and increases the pressure on the medical and performance departments to clear players to return […]
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Main injury patterns for ACL injuries in female football players
Keywords: soccer; video analysis; mechanism. This blog summarises a recently published paper assessing distinct ACL injuries in professional female footballers (1). Why is this study important? Anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injuries are a well-known problem in football and show a multiple times increased incidence in female football (2). This is of particular interest with increasing […]
Does a new injury prevention programme (FUNBALL) prevent injuries in youth male football (soccer) players?
We recently published a cluster-randomised controlled trial (cluster-RCT) in BJSM. It investigated the efficacy of a new injury prevention programme (IPP) called ‘FUNBALL’ in reducing the injuries in youth male football players (1). The summary of this study is outlined in this blog. Why is this study important? The importance of injury prevention in football is well documented. […]
The Wembley Stadium Medical Team
Introduction After opening in 1923, Wembley Stadium celebrated its centenary last year. During 2023, the stadium hosted 30 major events, drawing in a crowd of over 2.2 million people. [1] This number of guests coupled with the playing athletes inevitably brings about a variety of medical presentations, ranging from minor cuts to more severe conditions […]
Football’s burden – hamstring injuries in professional men’s football
Keywords: football, injury, Europe This blog outlines research involving 3,909 professional male football players across 54 Champions League teams in Europe over 21 consecutive seasons. The main aim was to evaluate the time trends of hamstring muscle injuries. Our report from the Elite Club Injury Study (ECIS), recently published in BJSM, was initiated, and funded by […]
Moving towards a triplanar view of hamstring strain injuries
Broadening understanding beyond simply ‘sprint’ and ‘stretch’ type injuries may impact injury prevention, rehabilitation, and diagnosis History of hamstring injury mechanisms Since 2006, we have known that the mechanism of injury impacts functional deficits, injury location and time to return to play (1-4) . At that point, these mechanisms were viewed as sprint type (occurring, […]
Football AS Medicine… Or is that Football IS Medicine? Does it even matter?!
YES! And make it a double yes! 2019 was a great year for the Football is Medicine (FIM) initiative: starting with the success of the second conference in Odense, Denmark back in January 25-26, to working with the most productive soccer scientists in the world to advance the field. 2019 ended beautifully for the […]
Returning to play in 2019 with Dr Clare Ardern. Why not catch this week’s BJSM Podcast?
On this week’s BJSM podcast, the Journal of Orthopaedic & Sports Physical Therapy (JOSPT) Editor In Chief (EIC) elect Dr Clare Ardern PhD (T: @clare_ardern) helps clinicians address the difficult questions about return to play (RTP). In this 27-minute podcast Dr Ardern discusses: Tips for clinicians when approaching RTP with athletes (and here is […]
#GISPT19 International Conference / Advances in Sport Rehabilitation: Football Symposium
After the success of the first two editions, the Advances in Sport Rehabilitation Football Symposium is back! The congress takes place this June in the heart of Verona, in the historical palace of Gran Guardia. This year, discussions will revolve around Rehabilitation and Return to Sport in the world of Football. We’ve partnered with Group of Italian Sports (GIS), The British Journal […]
#FootballMedicine meets the Universe of Sport
Interested, or working within #FootballMedicine? We’d suggest you get to Wembley for the end of April! The Isokinetic Medical Group’s annual #FootballMedicine conference returns to another iconic sporting arena in London having recently held at the Camp Nou in Barcelona. Wembley Stadium will host three days of top Sports Medicine CPD, this year looking outside the […]