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ArticleSports (Basel, Switzerland)2026

The Role of Anthropometry in Decision-Making for Injury Prevention Among Elite Flag Football Players.

Luis Gerardo Vázquez-Villarreal, Luis Felipe Talavera-Hernández, Martha Patricia Dergal-Irigoyen, Claudia Maceroni, Eleanor Louise Travis-Carr, José Miguel Martínez-Sanz, Nidia Rodriguez-Sanchez

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Luis Gerardo Vázquez-VillarrealMedical Direction and Applied Sports Sciences, LFA Professional American Football League, Mexico City 01219, Mexico.ORCID 0000-0001-8958-1865
Luis Felipe Talavera-HernándezDepartment of Nutrition, Faculty of Nursing and Nutrition, Autonomous University of Chihuahua, Chihuahua 31125, Mexico.ORCID 0000-0002-5891-5057
Martha Patricia Dergal-IrigoyenABC Medical Center, Mexico City 05300, Mexico.
Claudia MaceroniSports Science Research, Seattle, WA 98103, USA.ORCID 0009-0007-5047-3833
Eleanor Louise Travis-CarrMusculoskeletal Health Research Group, School of Health, Leeds Beckett University, Leeds LS1 3HE, UK.
José Miguel Martínez-SanzResearch Group in Applied Dietetics, Nutrition and Body Composition (DANuC), Department of Nursing, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Alicante, 03690 Alicante, Spain.ORCID 0000-0001-9054-3858
Nidia Rodriguez-SanchezFaculty of Health Sciences and Sport, University of Stirling, Scotland FK9 4LA, UK.ORCID 0000-0003-3960-5704

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Abstract

Although Flag Football (FF) is growing worldwide, the literature to guide sports sciences in preventing injuries is scarce. The aim of this study was to analyse how anthropometric characteristics were associated with injury in elite FF players. Athletes completed a full profile according to the International Society of Advances in Kinanthropometry (ISAK), including weight, height, sitting height, arm span length, skinfolds, girths, length and breadth bones, and an injury questionnaire was administered. Logistic regression models and Receiver Operating Characteristic (ROC) curves were conducted. In total, 108 FF national team players, 34 female (26.7 ± 4.3 years old) and 74 male (26.9 ± 5.1 years old), participated. Of these, 62% FF players reported injuries. Relaxed arm and flexed and contracted arm girths are related to increased or reduced injury risks (Odds = 2.932,

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ACL injuryanthropometric characteristicsbody compositionflag footballhand injuryinjury prevention

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