Blog authors: Chelsea Oxendale, Matthew Green, Keith Stokes, Sean Cumming, Gemma Nicole Parry, Sean Williams In this blog, we provide insights from our latest article published in the British Journal of Sports Medicine (available here), where we examined over 16,000 player-seasons from Premier League and Category One Academies to understand how apophyseal (growth-related) injuries vary […]
Tag: soccer
Simpler means safer when responding to an emergency: The new FIFA Medical Set-Piece toolkit and Pre-Match Emergency Action Plan
This blog examines FIFA’s new approach to medical emergencies in football – the “Medical Set Piece.” Just like rehearsed free kicks, FIFA have created a standardised emergency protocol where medical teams practice coordinated responses until they become automatic. Here, we explore the Pre-match Emergency Action Plan (PEAP), which assigns colour-coded roles to team members, ensuring […]
One test does not fit all: Tailoring hamstring Return-to-Play assessment in football
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 […]
Mental health issues within elite sport: are we taking steps in the right direction?
BJSM Undergraduate Perspective of SEM Blog Series – FIFA World Cup 2018 Discussion By Dr Thomas McCabe @dr_t_mccabe In the build-up to the World Cup Danny Rose was among the long line of professional athletes to describe their battles with mental illness in the main stream media (1). He talked openly about a variety of […]
Food for thought: Levelling the playing field for Academy nutritionists in English youth soccer
By Mark Russell (@drmarkru55ell) In an attempt ‘to create a world leading Academy system that serves to provide more and better home grown players,’ the English Premier League initiated the Elite Player Performance Plan (EPPP) in 2012[1,2]. Accordingly, the amount of coaching received by players rose from 3-12 to 4-16 h·player-1·week-1 when progressing from under […]
Case Report: Unusual cause of fibular fracture in a golfer
BJSM extends sympathies to golfer Thomas Levet, who seems likely to miss the British Open due to a ‘celebration injury’ after his French Open win (see him immediately pre-injury, left). He clearly doesn’t spend as much time in the water hazards as some of us. The hazards are usually incredibly wide and powerfully ball-sucking but […]
MRI used to screen maturity in U-17 soccer stars
Age-limited spot has long been limited by the veracity of birth certificates but MR imaging appears to provide a safe, reliable way of levelling the playing field. This blog post contains an article from the African press providing the background, MR images of a young, and mature, wrist, and a photo of the team that […]