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...

BACKGROUND Participants' compliance, attitudes and beliefs have the potential to influence the efficacy of an intervention greatly. OBJECTIVE To characterise team and player compliance with a comprehensive injury prevention warm-up programme for football (The 11+), and to assess attitudes towards injury prevention among coaches and their association with compliance and injury risk. STUDY DE...

BACKGROUND Most of the research in the area of psychosocial factors in rehabilitation after sports injuries has focused on risk behaviors, while relatively few studies have focused on behaviors that facilitate rehabilitation. The objective of our study was to understand the psychosocial features that characterize elite female football players who express a resilient behaviour during rehabilitat...

BACKGROUND The injury risk in football is high, but little is known about causes of injury. PURPOSE To identify risk factors for football injuries using a multivariate model. STUDY DESIGN Prospective cohort study. METHODS Participants were 306 male football players from the two highest divisions in Iceland. Before the 1999 football season started, the following factors were examined: heig...

OBJECTIVE To examine the use of medications and nutritional supplements among top-level male futsal players during international tournaments. MATERIALS AND METHODS This retrospective survey of the four consecutive 2000 to 2012 FIFA (Fédération Internationale de Football Association) Futsal World Cup tournaments analyzes data about the use of medications and nutritional supplements by each pla...