Profile of position movement demands in elite junior Australian rules footballers.

Low back pain in junior Australian Rules football: a cross-sectional survey of elite juniors, non-elite juniors and non-football playing controls

BACKGROUND Low back pain in junior Australian Rules footballers has not been investigated despite findings that back pain is more prevalent, severe and frequent in senior footballers than non-athletic controls and findings that adolescent back pain is a strong predictor for adult back pain. The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence, intensity, quality and frequency of low back pain ...

Player movement patterns in an elite junior Australian rules football team: an exploratory study.

This study explored the physical movement patterns associated with an elite Under 18 Australian Football (AF) team. Five field positions were selected with observations recording the number and relative per cent of "working "efforts (jogging, running, and sprinting), "resting "efforts (walking) and the total distances associated with "working "or "resting "efforts. Intra-observer reliability, u...

Retraction: The effect of a sports chiropractic manual therapy intervention on the prevention of back pain, hamstring and lower limb injuries in semi-elite Australian Rules footballers: A randomized controlled trial

The journal has been informed by the authors' institution that, contrary to the statement in this article [1], the Macquarie University Human Ethics Committee did not receive an application for ethics approval for this study. As the study was conducted without institutional ethics committee oversight, this article has been retracted. Reference 1. The effect of a sports chiropractic manual thera...

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Physiological profile in relation to playing position of elite college Gaelic footballers.

OBJECTIVE To examine the physiological profile, and its relation to playing position, of elite college Gaelic footballers. METHOD The subjects were 28 elite Gaelic footballers (12 backs, 12 forwards, and four midfielders; mean (SD) age 21 (1.67) years), who won a major intervarsity tournament (Sigerson Cup) three times in succession. RESULTS There was general similarity among the members of...