Injury recurrence is lower at the highest professional football level than at national and amateur levels: does sports medicine and sports physiotherapy deliver?

Abstract

258 words 3 ABSTRACTBackground Previous injury is a well-documented risk factor for football injury. The time-

How, When, and Where do Football Players get Injured?: a Descriptive Epidemiological Study on Male Professional Football Players in Spain for Four Seasons

“…In the last few years, these percentages have been reduced as a result of the detailed knowledge now available about injuries and recovery (36).…”

Hamstring injuries in elite Gaelic football: an 8-year investigation to identify injury rates, time-loss patterns and players at increased risk

“…Thus, activities to prepare players for the running-based demands of Gaelic football should be investigated, particularly for players returning from injury. Recurrent hamstring injuries are also common in elite Australian football (20%), elite soccer (16–23%) and subelite soccer (12.5%) 7 14. Thus, higher recurrence rates in elite Gaelic football when compared with other field sports suggests some rehabilitation programmes are limited in facilitating complete recovery.…”

Match-related risk factors for injury in male professional football

“…From this thesis and other previous publications, it seems clear that players are at increased risk of injuries as they RTS [10,46,48,49]. This could be an indication that the RTS criteria that are currently used in professional football do not provide sufficient information about whether players can return to football without sustaining a subsequent injury [51].…”

“…Although there are important positive effects on an individual's health when playing football, there is also a substantial risk of sustaining injuries, especially among professional football players [10]. It has been shown that professional football is associated with a more than 1000-fold higher injury rate than other professions often considered to be high risk, such as manufacturing and construction [11].…”

“…It has been shown that 17% of all injuries in top level football are re-injuries and that the injury type that is most likely to suffer from re-injuries is muscle injuries. It has also been shown that most re-injuries occur quite soon after a player has returned to sport (RTS) from their previous injury, within two months of RTS [10]. Second, previous injuries may also increase the risk of sustaining another type of subsequent injury [47].…”