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Osteoarthritis in Football.
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- The Risk of Knee Osteoarthritis in Professional Soccer Players—a Systematic Review With Meta-AnalysesDeutsches Arzteblatt international · 2021Pooled it
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- Severe Injuries of Former Portuguese Football Players: A Post-Career Burden?Sports (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Lower limb clinical osteoarthritis and its association with joint pain and function, and severe injuries and surgeries, in women professional football players: a cross-sectional observational study.South African journal of sports medicine · 2025Article
- Is Quality of Life a Reason Related to the Retirement of Professional Male Soccer Players?Translational sports medicine · 2025Article
- High Prevalence of Varus Knee Malalignment in Adolescent Football Players-Clinical Lower Leg Axis Measurements of Male Junior Football Players Aged 7 to 18 Years.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Influence of leg axis alignment on MRI T2* mapping of the knee in young professional soccer players.BMC musculoskeletal disorders · 2024Article
- Determination of the Prevalence of Knee and Hip Clinical Osteoarthritis in the Active Professional Male Footballer and Its Association with Pain, Function, Injury and Surgery.Sports (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Lower Limb Anthropometric Profiling in Professional Female Soccer Players: A Proof of Concept for Asymmetry Assessment Using Video Analysis.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Observational
- Return to Pivoting Sports after Cartilage Repair Surgery of the Knee: A Scoping Review.Cartilage · 2023Article
- Knee function after a mean of 19 years Post-retirement in 65 Italian semi-professional rugby veterans.Acta bio-medica : Atenei Parmensis · 2022Article
- Semi-quantitative magnetic resonance imaging scoring of the knee detects previous injuries in professional soccer players.Knee surgery, sports traumatology, arthroscopy : official journal of the ESSKA · 2022Article
- Application of Image Processing Technology in the Diagnosis of Football Injury.Applied bionics and biomechanics · 2022Article
- Lower extremity injuries in the baseball athlete.SAGE open medicine · 2022Review
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- Football-related injuries are the major reason for the career end of professional male football players.Knee surgery, sports traumatology, arthroscopy : official journal of the ESSKA · 2021Article
- Meniscal Injuries in the Olympic and Elite Athletes.Indian journal of orthopaedics · 2020Review
- Prevention of severe knee injuries in men's elite football by implementing specific training modules.Knee surgery, sports traumatology, arthroscopy : official journal of the ESSKA · 2020Article
- Professional soccer is associated with radiographic cam and pincer hip morphology.Knee surgery, sports traumatology, arthroscopy : official journal of the ESSKA · 2019Observational
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6 authors at 4 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
Football is currently the most popular sporting activity in the world. Multiple reports have shown that a high incidence of osteoarthritis is found in football players. Evidence clearly shows that traumatic injury significantly predisposes players for such pathophysiology. Injuries are frequent in amateur as well as professional football players, with knee and ankle accounting for the most severe injuries. Many professional athletes lose playing time due to injuries and many are forced into early retirement. Posttraumatic osteoarthritis is a common finding among ex-football players with numbers well above the normal population. Today's surgical techniques are advanced and capable of restoring the joint to a certain extent. However, a restitution ad integrum is reached only in very rare cases. Professional football players that return to play after serious injuries perform their extremely strenuous activity on morphologically compromised joints. Incomplete rehabilitation and pressure to return to play after an injurious event clearly put the athlete at an even higher risk for joint degeneration. Prevention strategies, improved surgical management, strict rehabilitation, as well as future aspects such as early suppression of inflammation, personalized medicine, and predictive genomics DNA profiling are needed to reduce incidence and improve the health perspectives of football players.
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