ArticleKnee surgery, sports traumatology, arthroscopy : official journal of the ESSKA2018
Muscle injuries of the dominant or non-dominant leg in male football players at elite level.
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- The dominant leg is more likely to get injured in soccer players: systematic review and meta-analysis.Biology of sport · 2021Review
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- Relationship between Posture and Non-Contact Lower Limb Injury in Young Male Amateur Football Players: A Prospective Cohort Study.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
- Eccentric-Overload Production During the Flywheel Squat Exercise in Young Soccer Players: Implications for Injury Prevention.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2020Article
- The Sonographic Muscle Injury Classification in Soccer: proposal for an ultrasound-based muscle injury classification.Radiologia brasileiraReview
- Critical survey and panel review of sustained acoustic medicine in the treatment of sports-related musculoskeletal injuries by professional sports athletic trainers.Current orthopaedic practiceArticle
- Hamstring injuries: update article.Revista brasileira de ortopediaArticle
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Abstract
purposeThe aim was to study possible differences of muscle injuries regarding type, localization and the extent of injury between the dominant and non-dominant leg in elite male football players. Another aim was to study the injury incidence of muscle injuries of the lower extremity during match and training.
methodsData were consecutively collected between 2007 and 2013 in a prospective cohort study based on 54 football players from one team of the Swedish first league. The injury incidence was calculated for both match and training, injuries to the hip adductors, quadriceps, hamstrings and triceps surae were diagnosed and evaluated with ultrasonography, and their length, depth and width were measured to determine the extent of structural muscle injuries.
resultsFifty-four players suffered totally 105 of the studied muscle injuries. Out of these 105 injuries, the dominant leg was affected in 53 % (n = 56) of the cases. A significantly greater extent of the injury was found in the dominant leg when compared with the non-dominant leg with regard to structural injuries of the hamstrings. No other significant differences were found.
conclusionsStructural hamstring muscle injuries were found to be of greater extent in the dominant leg when compared with the non-dominant leg. This new finding should be taken into consideration when allowing the football player to return to play after leg muscle injuries. LEVEL OF EVIDENCE: IV.
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