ArticleBMJ open sport & exercise medicine2024
A musculoskeletal multifactorial individualised programme for hamstring muscle injury risk reduction in professional football: results of a prospective cohort study.
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Optimising Hip Mobility, Hamstring Flexibility and Performance in Elite Sprint and Hurdles Athletes Using Lightback: an Experimental Pilot Study
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21 citing papers in PubMed, 21 citations in OpenAlex.
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- Validity and reliability of sprint force-velocity profiling in elite football: Comparison of MySprint, GPS, and radar devices.PloS one · 2025Article
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- A musculoskeletal multifactorial individualised programme for hamstring muscle injury risk reduction in professional football: results of a prospective cohort study.BMJ open sport & exercise medicine · 2024Article
- External load profile during different sport-specific activities in semi-professional soccer players.BMC sports science, medicine & rehabilitation · 2023Article
- Assessment of inter-individual variability in hamstring muscle recovery after a sport-specific sprint training in women and men.Frontiers in physiology · 2023Article
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- Factors influencing performance and injury risk in elite female Gaelic team sport players and future research directions: a narrative review.BMC sports science, medicine & rehabilitation · 2022Review
- Hamstring Muscle Injuries and Hamstring Specific Training in Elite Athletics (Track and Field) Athletes.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- The Use of Wearable Sensors for Preventing, Assessing, and Informing Recovery from Sport-Related Musculoskeletal Injuries: A Systematic Scoping Review.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Low Horizontal Force Production Capacity during Sprinting as a Potential Risk Factor of Hamstring Injury in Football.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
- Unilateral Maximal Isometric Hex Bar Pull Test: Within-Session Reliability and Lower Body Force Production in Male and Female Freeski Athletes.Frontiers in sports and active living · 2021Article
- The Hamstrings: Anatomic and Physiologic Variations and Their Potential Relationships With Injury Risk.Frontiers in physiology · 2021Review
- The "Journal of functional morphology and kinesiology · 2020Article
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Abstract
Objective: To test whether a musculoskeletal multifactorial and individualised hamstring muscle injury (HMI) risk reduction programme could reduce HMI risk in professional football. Methods: We conducted a prospective cohort study in Finnish premier football league teams, with the 2019 season used as a control and an intervention conducted in the 2021 season. Screening was conducted to provide individualised programmes and monitor progress. Cox regression with hazard ratio (HR) was used with HMI as outcome and season as explanatory variable, including all players for primary analysis and those who performed the two seasons for secondary analysis. Results: 90 players were included in the control and 87 in the intervention seasons; 31 players performed in the 2 seasons. Twenty HMIs were recorded during the control and 16 during the intervention seasons. Cox regression analyses revealed that HMI risk at any given time was not significantly different between control and intervention seasons (for all players: HR 0.77 (95% CI 0.39 to 1.51), p=0.444; for the 31 players: HR 0.32 (95% CI 0.01 to 1.29), p=0.110)). For the 31 players, the HMI burden was significantly reduced in the intervention compared with the control season (RR 0.67 (95% CI 0.53 to 0.85)). Higher compliance with knee strength training, maximal velocity exposure and lower performance reductions in maximal theoretical horizontal force and knee flexor force were associated with lower HMI incidence. Conclusions: Although the primary analysis did not reveal any significant effect of the intervention to reduce HMI risk in professional football, the programme was feasible, and additional secondary analyses showed a significant association between the intervention and lower HMI burden, incidence and risk.
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