ArticleBMJ open sport & exercise medicine2018
ACL injury incidence, severity and patterns in professional male soccer players in a Middle Eastern league.
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- Lessons Learned from Implementing Injury and Illness Surveillance in Professional Football: Introducing a New Implementation Framework.Sports medicine (Auckland, N.Z.) · 2025Article
- Limitations of athlete-exposures as a construct for comparisons of injury rates by gender/sex: a narrative review.British journal of sports medicine · 2025Review
- A specific reconditioning training program implemented 12 months after ACL surgery improves lower-limb jump variables in amateur soccer players.Frontiers in physiology · 2025Article
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- Drop jump performance differences between ACL-injured and healthy semi-professional male soccer players.Frontiers in sports and active living · 2025Article
- Anterior Cruciate Ligament Ruptures in Russian Premier League Soccer Players During the 2010 to 2021/2022 Competitive Seasons: The Epidemiology and Details of Return to Sports.Orthopaedic journal of sports medicine · 2024Article
- Developing a data-driven multimodal injury and illness prevention programme in male professional football based on a risk management model: the IP2 NetWork.BMJ open sport & exercise medicine · 2024Article
- A comparative analysis of suture-augmented and standard hamstring autograft single-bundle ACL reconstruction outcomes: short-term functional benefits without long-term impact.BMC musculoskeletal disorders · 2023Article
- The incidence of anterior cruciate ligament injury in youth and male soccer athletes: an evaluation of 17,108 players over two consecutive seasons with an age-based sub-analysis.Knee surgery, sports traumatology, arthroscopy : official journal of the ESSKA · 2023Article
- Mechanisms of ACL injuries in men's football: A systematic video analysis over six seasons in the Qatari professional league.Biology of sport · 2023Article
- Increased Risk of ACL Injury for Female but Not Male Soccer Players on Artificial Turf Versus Natural Grass: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Orthopaedic journal of sports medicine · 2022Review
- Progressive Rehabilitation of a Professional Soccer Player After an Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction in Phase 1: Clinical Perspective with Video Demonstration.Journal of athletic training · 2021Article
- Acute Effects of ACL Injury-Prevention Warm-Up and Soccer-Specific Fatigue Protocol on Dynamic Knee Valgus in Youth Male Soccer Players.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2020Article
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Abstract
aimTo ascertain ACL injury incidence, severity (injury burden) and patterns (contact/non-contact and reinjuries) in a professional male football league in the Middle East over five consecutive seasons.
methodsProspective epidemiological study reporting ACL injuries in professional male soccer players in the Qatar Stars League, with complete matches/training exposure over five seasons (2013-2014 to 2017-2018), corresponding to 2243 player seasons and 729 team months.
results37 complete ACL ruptures occurred in 37 players during 486 951 hours of player exposure. The overall ACL injury rate was 0.076 injuries/1000 hours of exposure (season range 0.045-0.098). Injury incidence during matches and training was 0.41 and 0.04 injuries/1000 hours of exposure, respectively. Match injury incidence was greater than that of training (OR 11.8, 95% CI 6.21 to 23.23, p<0.001). Average injury-related time-loss following ACL injury was 225 days±65 (range 116-360). Overall injury burden was 16.3 days lost/1000 hours of exposure.
conclusionThe overall ACL injury rate in professional male soccer players competing in the Middle East was 0.076 injuries/1000 hours of exposure, match injury incidence was greater than training, while the average ACL time-loss was 225 days.
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