Results Of A Training Program Designed To Improve Fundamental Movement Patterns In Professional Football Players

2010 ◽  
Vol 42 ◽  
pp. 420
Author(s):  
Kyle B. Kiesel ◽  
Robert J. Butler ◽  
Phil J. Plisky
Keyword(s):  
Training Program ◽  
Movement Patterns ◽  
Football Players ◽  
Professional Football ◽  
Fundamental Movement Patterns

Prediction of Injury by Limited and Asymmetrical Fundamental Movement Patterns in American Football Players

2014 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 88-94 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kyle B. Kiesel ◽  
Robert J. Butler ◽  
Philip J. Plisky
Keyword(s):  
Motor Control ◽  
Relative Risk ◽  
Outcome Measure ◽  
Movement Patterns ◽  
Musculoskeletal Injury ◽  
Football Players ◽  
Professional Football ◽  
Time Loss ◽  
Main Outcome Measure ◽  
Fundamental Movement Patterns

Context:Previous injury is the strongest risk factor for future injury in sports. It has been proposed that motor-control changes such as movement limitation and asymmetry associated with injury and pain may be perpetuated as part of an individual's movement strategy. Motor control of fundamental 1-×-body-weight tasks can reliably and efficiently be measured in the field.Objective:To determine whether the motor control of fundamental movement patterns and pattern asymmetry have a relationship with time-loss injury over the course of the preseason in professional football.Design:Injury-risk study.Setting:American professional football facilities.Participants:238 American professional football players.Intervention:To measure the motor control of 1-×-body-weight fundamental movement patterns, Functional Movement Screen scores were obtained before the start of training camp. The previously established cutoff score of ≤14 and the presence of any asymmetries on the FMS were examined using relative risk to determine if a relationship exists with time-loss injury.Main Outcome Measure:Time-loss musculoskeletal injury defined as any time loss from practice or competition due to musculoskeletal injury.Results:Players who scored ≤14 exhibited a relative risk of 1.87 (CI95 1.20–2.96). Similarly, players with at least 1 asymmetry displayed a relative risk of 1.80 (CI95 1.11–2.74). The combination of scoring below the threshold and exhibiting a movement asymmetry was highly specific for injury, with a specificity of .87 (CI95 .84–.90).Conclusion:The results of this study suggest that fundamental movement patterns and pattern asymmetry are identifiable risk factors for time-loss injury during the preseason in professional football players.

scholarly journals Validation and Application of Two New Core Stability Tests in Professional Football

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (16) ◽  
pp. 5495
Author(s):  
Saioa Etxaleku ◽  
Mikel Izquierdo ◽  
Eder Bikandi ◽  
Jaime García Arroyo ◽  
Iñigo Sarriegi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Training Program ◽  
The Body ◽  
Core Stability ◽  
Football Players ◽  
Professional Football ◽  
Kinetic Chain ◽  
Good Test ◽  
Stability Tests ◽  
Acceptable Error ◽  
Core Training

The purpose of the first study was to validate two newly proposed core stability tests; Prone Plank test (PPT) and Closed Kinetic Chain test (CCT), for evaluating the strength of the body core. Subsequently, these tests were employed in a longitudinal prospective study implementing a core stability training program with a professional Spanish football team. For the validation study, 22 physically active men (Tegner Scale 6–7) performed three trials of the PPT and CCT tests in two different testing sessions separated by one week. In the longitudinal study, 13 male professional football players were equally evaluated (PPT and CCT) before and after the competitive session in which they completed a core training program. Intra-/intersession, and intertester, reliability was analyzed. PPT and CCT demonstrated excellent to good test–retest reliability and acceptable error measurement (ICCs for intratester and intrasession reliability ranged from 0.77 to 0.94 for the PPT, and 0.8–0.9 for the CCT) in all but one of the testing conditions (female tester for CCT test; ICC = 0.38). Significant improvements on core strength were found from pre to post evaluation in both the PPT (p < 0.01) and CCT (p < 0.01) after the implementation of a core training program in professional football players.

Influence of Match Location, Quality of Opponents, and Match Status on Movement Patterns in Brazilian Professional Football Players

2017 ◽  
Vol 31 (8) ◽  
pp. 2155-2161 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rodrigo Aquino ◽  
Guilherme H. Munhoz Martins ◽  
Luiz H. Palucci Vieira ◽  
Rafael P. Menezes
Keyword(s):  
Movement Patterns ◽  
Football Players ◽  
Professional Football ◽  
Match Location

Post-match recovery of eccentric knee flexor strength in male professional football players

2021 ◽  
Vol 47 ◽  
pp. 140-146
Author(s):  
César Augusto Bueno ◽  
João Breno de Araujo Ribeiro-Alvares ◽  
Gabriel dos Santos Oliveira ◽  
Rafael Grazioli ◽  
Filipe Veeck ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Football Players ◽  
Professional Football ◽  
Knee Flexor ◽  
Flexor Strength

Lunate and Perilunate Dislocations in Professional Football Players

1994 ◽  
Vol 22 (6) ◽  
pp. 841-845 ◽  
Author(s):  
David J. Raab ◽  
David A. Fischer ◽  
Donald C. Quick
Keyword(s):  
Football Players ◽  
Professional Football

scholarly journals Anterior Cruciate Ligament Injury Prevention Exercises: Could a Neuromuscular Warm-Up Improve Muscle Pre-Activation before a Soccer Game? A Proof-of-Principle Study on Professional Football Players

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (11) ◽  
pp. 4958
Author(s):  
Alessandro de Sire ◽  
Andrea Demeco ◽  
Nicola Marotta ◽  
Lucrezia Moggio ◽  
Arrigo Palumbo ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Anterior Cruciate Ligament ◽  
Cruciate Ligament ◽  
Acl Injury ◽  
Football Players ◽  
Professional Football ◽  
Activation Time ◽  
Exercise Protocol ◽  
Warm Up ◽  
Anterior Cruciate ◽  
Proof Of Principle

Neuromuscular warm-up has been shown to decrease the risk of anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injury improving muscular firing patterns. All preventive training programs described in the literature have a duration of several weeks. To date, no studies have explored the immediate effect of a neuromuscular warm-up exercise on pre-activation time of the knee stabilizer muscles. Thus, this proof-of-principle study aimed at evaluating the acute effects of a neuromuscular warm-up exercises on the electromyographic activation of knee stabilizer muscles’ activation pattern. We included 11 professional football players, mean aged 23.2 ± 4.5 years, from a Southern Italy football team. All of them underwent a standard warm-up exercise protocol at the first day of the evaluation. At 1 week, they underwent a structured neuromuscular warm-up exercise protocol. We assessed as outcome measure the pre-activation time (ms) of rectus femoris (RF), vastus medialis (VM), biceps femoris (BF), and medial hamstrings (MH) upon landing. Outcomes were assessed before and after the standard warm-up and neuromuscular warm-up. Pre-activation time of RF, VM, BF and MH significantly improved only after neuromuscular warm-up (p < 0.05); moreover, there was a significant (p < 0.05) between-group difference in pre-activation time of all muscles after the neuromuscular warm-up compared with the standard warm-up. These findings suggested that physical exercise consisting of a structured injury prevention neuromuscular warm-up might have an immediate effect in improving the activation time of the knee stabilizer muscles, thus potentially reducing the risk of ACL injury.

scholarly journals Resuming professional football (soccer) during the COVID-19 pandemic in a country with high infection rates: a prospective cohort study

2021 ◽  
pp. bjsports-2020-103724
Author(s):  
Yorck Olaf Schumacher ◽  
Montassar Tabben ◽  
Khalid Hassoun ◽  
Asmaa Al Marwani ◽  
Ibrahim Al Hussein ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Cohort Study ◽  
Prospective Cohort Study ◽  
Prospective Cohort ◽  
Preventive Measures ◽  
Clinical Symptoms ◽  
Severe Illness ◽  
Football Players ◽  
Professional Football ◽  
Infection Rates ◽  
High Infection

ObjectivesThe risk of viral transmission associated with contact sports such as football (soccer) during the COVID-19 pandemic is unknown. The aim of this study was to describe the infective and immune status of professional football players, team staff and league officials over a truncated football season resumed at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic in a country with high infection rates and to investigate the clinical symptoms related to COVID-19 infection in professional football players.MethodsProspective cohort study of 1337 football players, staff and officials during a truncated football season (9 weeks) with a tailored infection control programme based on preventive measures and regular SARS-CoV-2 PCR swab testing (every 3–5 days) combined with serology testing for immunity (every 4 weeks). Clinical symptoms in positive participants were recorded using a 26-item, Likert-Scale-based scoring system.ResultsDuring the study period, 85 subjects returned positive (cycle threshold (cT) ≤30) or reactive (30<cT<40) PCR tests, of which 36 were players. The infection rate was consistent with that of the general population during the same time period. More than half of infected subjects were asymptomatic, and the remaining had only mild symptoms with no one requiring hospitalisation. Symptom severity was associated with lower cT values. Social contacts and family were the most common sources of infection, and no infection could be traced to training or matches. Of the 36 infected players, 15 presented positive serology during the study period.ConclusionFootball played outdoors involving close contact between athletes represents a limited risk for SARS-CoV-2 infection and severe illness when preventive measures are in place.

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