OBJECTIVES To investigate the relationship between physical qualities and match activity profiles of recreational Australian football players. DESIGN Prospective cohort study. METHODS Forty players from three recreational Australian football teams (Division One, Two and Three) underwent a battery of fitness tests (vertical jump, 10 and 40 m sprint, 6 m × 30 m repeated sprint test, Yo-Yo int...

BACKGROUND Field expedient screening tools that can identify individuals at an elevated risk for injury are needed to minimize time loss in American football players. Previous research has suggested that poor dynamic balance may be associated with an elevated risk for injury in athletes; however, this has yet to be examined in college football players. HYPOTHESIS To determine if dynamic balan...

BACKGROUND Complete triceps tendon ruptures are relatively rare in the general population but slightly more prevalent in professional football. One prior study found 11 complete ruptures over a 6-season period. HYPOTHESIS Triceps ruptures occur more commonly in football linemen due to forced elbow flexion during an eccentric contraction and may occur more commonly with the increasing size and...

Research has demonstrated the effectiveness of imagery use in sport, but only few studies have examined the theoretically connection between imagery and confidence in team sports. These neglect necessitated the need to examine imagery use as predictors of elite football players’ sport confidence. Descriptive data were collected from forty-three male and female football players from Nigeria usin...

MindMax is a mobile wellbeing application produced by the Australian Football League Players’ Association (AFL Players), with the aim of improving the wellbeing of young Australians. The project engages a strategy of wellbeing science delivered via mobile technology while harnessing the popularity and appeal of both sports and videogames. Though the app itself provides traditional casual gamepl...

BACKGROUND Catastrophic cervical spine injuries in football are rare but tragic events. PURPOSE To update the incidence of catastrophic cervical injuries in scholastic football players and identify new injury patterns. STUDY DESIGN Descriptive epidemiology study. METHODS The authors retrospectively reviewed 196 incidents of catastrophic high school and collegiate football injuries reporte...

P.P.R.N. d’Hooghe, G.M.M.J. Kerkhoffs (eds.), The Ankle in Football, Sports and Traumatology, DOI 10.1007/978-2-8178-0523-8_24, © Springer-Verlag France 2014 Abstract Due to cumulative exposure to heavy physical demands and to the occurrence of traumatic ankle injuries during their career, former professional football players are likely to suffer in their post-sport life from ankle osteoarthrit...