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- Title
Muscle strains in soccer: a five-year survey of an Italian major league team.
- Authors
Volpi, Piero; Melegati, Gianluca; Tornese, Davide; Bandi, Marco
- Abstract
We analyzed muscle injuries collected from an Italian major-league soccer team during the period 1995-2000. We considered all the muscle accidents that had required a player to stand down for three or more days. Among the overall injuries, muscle accidents were the most frequent, representing 30% (103 cases), followed by contusions (28%), sprains (17%) and tendinopathies (9%). There was one recurrence involving the hamstring. Lack of training was one of the causes of such injuries; in fact the training/match ratio of those seasons (3.6 to 1) show that there was little time for training compared to the number of matches.
- Subjects
MUSCLE injuries; SPRAINS; SPORTS injuries; SPORTS medicine; PHYSIOLOGICAL stress; PHYSICAL education
- Publication
Knee Surgery, Sports Traumatology, Arthroscopy, 2004, Vol 12, Issue 5, p482
- ISSN
0942-2056
- Publication type
journal article
- DOI
10.1007/s00167-003-0478-0