Professional youth football academy injury data: collection procedures, perceived value, and use

Consensus statement on injury definitions and data collection procedures in studies of football (soccer) injuries.

BACKGROUND Variations in definitions and methodologies have created differences in the results and conclusions obtained from studies of football (soccer) injuries; this has made interstudy comparisons difficult. PROCEDURE An Injury Consensus Group was established under the auspices of Fédération Internationale de Football Association Medical Assessment and Research Centre. Using a nominal gro...

Youth football: heat stress and injury risk.

The Football Association medical research programme: an audit of injuries in academy youth football.

OBJECTIVES To undertake a prospective epidemiological study of the injuries sustained in English youth academy football over two competitive seasons. METHODS Player injuries were annotated by medical staff at 38 English football club youth academies. A specific injury audit questionnaire was used together with a weekly return form that documented each club's current injury status. RESULTS A...

Drug use in English professional football.

OBJECTIVES To examine several issues related to drug use in English professional football. More particularly the project sought to gather data on: players' use of permitted supplements (mineral and vitamin pills and creatine); whether they sought advice, and if so from whom, about their use of supplements; their experience of and attitudes towards drug testing; their views on the extent of the ...

Biological maturity and injury in elite youth football.

The purpose of the present study was to investigate injury according to biological maturity in elite under-14 youth football players based at the National Football Institute, France. Over 10 seasons, injury incidence, severity and distribution were compared in 233 players classed according to individual biological maturity determined by skeletal age into three cohorts as early, normal and late ...