[Purpose] This study aimed to compare physical activities between junior high school and high school female football players in order to explain the factors that predispose to a higher incidence of sports injuries in high school female football players. [Subjects and Methods] Twenty-nine female football players participated. Finger floor distance, the center of pressure during single limb stanc...

Clemente, M.F., Lourenço Martins, F.M., Sousa Mendes, R., & Figueiredo, A.J. (2014). A systemic overview of football game: The principles behind the game. J. Hum. Sport Exerc., 9(2), pp.656-667. The football game is a specific system constituted by many players’ interactions. The specific nature of such sport must be properly analyzed and discussed in sport community in order to understand the ...

Current technologies allow movements of the players and the ball in football matches to be tracked and recorded with high accuracy and temporal frequency. We demonstrate an approach to analyzing football data with the aim to find typical patterns of spatial arrangement of the field players. It involves transformation of original coordinates to relative positions of the players and the ball with...

OBJECTIVE To test a helmetless-tackling behavioral intervention for reducing head impacts in National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I football players. DESIGN Randomized controlled clinical trial. SETTING Football field. PATIENTS OR OTHER PARTICIPANTS Fifty collegiate football players (intervention = 25, control = 25). INTERVENTION(S) The intervention group participated in a ...

Professional football is a contact sport with a high risk of injury. This study was designed to examine the contribution of stress and recovery variables as assessed with the Recovery-Stress Questionnaire for Athletes (RESTQ-Sport) to the risk of injury in professional football players. In a prospective, non-experimental cohort design, 22 professional football players in the highest German foot...

An investigation by questionnaire was undertaken in a group of 480 football players and 288 handball players (768 players). Of these 803 were injured, giving a player incidence of 4.1 injury/1000 football hours and 8.3 injury/1000 handball hours. The lower extremities were involved in 82% of the football injuries, whereas handball injuries were evenly distributed on both upper and lower extremi...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the frequency of unreported concussion and estimate more accurately the overall rate of concussion in high school football players. DESIGN Retrospective, confidential survey completed by all subjects at the end of the football season. SETTING AND PARTICIPANTS A total of 1,532 varsity football players from 20 high schools in the Milwaukee, Wisconsin, area were survey...

Of all sports, football accounts for the highest incidence of concussion in the US due to the large number of athletes participating and the nature of the sport. While there is general agreement that concussion incidence can be reduced through rule changes and teaching proper tackling technique, there remains debate as to whether helmet design may also reduce the incidence of concussion. A retr...

BACKGROUND Hamstring injury is the single most common injury in European professional football and, therefore, time to return and secondary prevention are of particular concern. OBJECTIVE To compare the effectiveness of two rehabilitation protocols after acute hamstring injury in Swedish elite football players by evaluating time needed to return to full participation in football team-training...

football is the most popular sport in developed countries which has a major share of the total sports industry market. in this study we used to determining the pricing equation premier of league football players of iran based on ordinary least squares. research tools were include of three achieved questionnaires that content validity was confirmed during the several meeting and discussed and re...