Evaluation of injuries in youth soccer

Sullivan, Justin; Gross, Richard H.; Grana, William A.; Garcia-Moral, Carlos A.

doi:10.1177/036354658000800505

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“…18 The paucity of research specifically related to Association Football is apparent as three studies were reported within this sport. 17 All of the available data used subjective assessments of pitch conditions reporting associations of 24% 19,20 and 21% 21 between pitches and injury. It is unclear whether subjective measures provide a true reflection of pitch hardness and linking them to injury is difficult.…”

Section: Current Evidence That Natural Turf Pitches Affect Injury Incmentioning

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Can the natural turf pitch be viewed as a risk factor for injury within Association Football?

Rennie¹,

Vanrenterghem

Littlewood

et al. 2016

Journal of Science and Medicine in Sport

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a b s t r a c tObjectives: A review of the current literature is used to propose a 'conceptual model for relative pitch hardness' and how this may affect incidence of injury within Association Football. Based upon the injury risk and causation model of Meeuwisse et al. (Clin J Sport Med 2007; 17(3):215), it may provide researchers a necessary framework to guide future research investigations. Design: A literature review. Methods: A comprehensive search of electronic databases available until October 2014, and supplemental hand searching was conducted to identify relevant studies. Studies were deemed relevant if they met the following criteria: published in English, presented or referenced in an epidemiological study or provided data directly and/or related to the surface of the football pitch, ball or boot to surface interaction and injury. Further information was sourced on surface hardness, players' movement patterns and physiological demands within football. Results: Papers varied in methodological quality, with comparative studies examining injury rates on artificial versus natural turf pitches being most prevalent. No prospective studies were found that objectively measured the relationship between hardness of natural turf and injury risk within football. Conclusions: The literature review into natural turf pitches and injury within football has largely been unable to confirm that pitch hardness can be viewed as a significant extrinsic risk factor. Methodological concerns, including objectivity in pitch assessment and uniformity in defining injuries undermine the efficacy of available work. Future studies are needed utilising objective assessment tools to draw more definitive conclusions regarding pitch hardness as an extrinsic factor for injury within football.

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Section: Current Evidence That Natural Turf Pitches Affect Injury Incmentioning

confidence: 99%

Can the natural turf pitch be viewed as a risk factor for injury within Association Football?

Rennie¹,

Vanrenterghem

Littlewood

et al. 2016

Journal of Science and Medicine in Sport

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“…Of all injured players who wore shin guards, only 2.2% (1/45) sustained an injury to a leg. Of all players documented as not wearing shin guards at the time of injury, 10.5% (16/152) had leg injuries. On the basis of shin guard use reported among the injured players, excluding those with leg injuries, 24.4% of players wore some kind of shin guard.…”

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Soccer Injuries and Their Relation to Physical Maturity

Backous

Friedl²,

Smith³

et al. 1988

Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med

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“…Soccer injuries have been reported to occur for the most part in the lower extremity in youth players (17,18), as is the case for professional (19) and senior players (20,21). The possible explanations for this are as follows: i) in soccer players, the lower extremity joints are subjected to severe mechanical stresses and are easily injured due to excessive and repetitive use of the joints; and ii) soccer players expose their lower extremity joints to repetitive intense impacts and torsional and/or axial loads.…”

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“…This could be explained by the finding that relatively more sprains are localized in the ankle joint of soccer players (22). Furthermore, a substantial number of preceding studies have demonstrated that among all joint injuries occurring in soccer players the ankle sprain is the most common (17)(18)(19)(23)(24)(25)(26)(27)(28)(29). The results from the present study showed that the VAS scores for the 'pain on moving' subscale were substantially higher than the scores for the 'pain at rest' subscale and 'pain on pressing' at the ankle joint, as well as other lower extremity joints in youth soccer players.…”

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Effect of a chicken comb extract-containing supplement on subclinical joint pain in collegiate soccer players

Yoshimura

Aoba

Naïto

et al. 2011

Experimental and Therapeutic Medicine

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Abstract. Much of our focus of attention has been on subclinical or subtle joint pain experienced by healthy soccer players. The present study aimed to determine at which joint such subclinical pains are the most prominent, and to examine the pain-relieving effect of a chicken comb extract (CCE)-containing supplement product (test product) on these athletes. A total of 46 collegiate soccer players, consisting of 24 leading and 22 substitute players, belonging to a university soccer team were enrolled for measuring the pains at 4 different joints (ankle, knee, hip and shoulder) using 3 pain subscales of a 100-mm visual analog scale (VAS) ('pain at rest', 'pain on pressing' and 'pain on moving'), and participated in a prospective, double-blind, controlled study. A total of 23 subjects each received the test product (4,800 mg/day) (test group) and placebo (placebo group) for 12 weeks. VAS pain scores of individual joints were evaluated at baseline and following 4, 8 and 12 weeks of the intervention. VAS scores for the 'pain on moving' subscale in 46 enrolled subjects were highest at the ankle joint, and thus the values (abbreviated as 'pain scores') were used as a parameter for efficacy assessment of the test product. Compared to the baseline, the pain scores were significantly decreased for the dominant foot (but not for the non-dominant foot) in the total subpopulation (at week 4; p<0.01) and the leading player subpopulation (at week 4; p<0.01 and at week 12; p<0.05) in the test group (n=19 and 11, respectively). In comparison between the test product and placebo groups, the pain scores were significantly changed for the dominant foot (p<0.05) at week 4 in the total subpopulation and at week 12 in the leading player subpopulation in the test group. Thus, subclinical joint pain is most prominently observed at the ankle joint of the dominant foot in healthy young soccer players and may be improved by the daily intake of the CCE-containing supplement. IntroductionSoccer is one of the sports most likely to cause not only clinically recognized joint injuries but also unrecognized minute ones due to the overuse, repetitive impact and torsional loading of joints. Furthermore, these conditions may be aggravated by several factors, including excessive mechanical loads and repeated microtrauma. These factors are known to enhance articular cartilage damage in soccer players. In this context, there are supporting data demonstrating that the risk of cartilage damage is increased in soccer (and certain other sports), where the repetitive intense impact and torsional loading are subjected to the joints (1), and may be implicated in the chronic development of osteoarthritis (OA) (2-4). Indeed, several clinical studies have demonstrated that the risk of OA is higher in soccer players, as well as in certain other groups of athletes, than in control non-athlete groups (5-11).In the course of health management of collegiate soccer players, we noticed that most players, particularly leading players, suffer from subtle lower extremity...

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Evaluation of injuries in youth soccer

Cited by 144 publications

References 8 publications

Can the natural turf pitch be viewed as a risk factor for injury within Association Football?

Can the natural turf pitch be viewed as a risk factor for injury within Association Football?

Soccer Injuries and Their Relation to Physical Maturity

Effect of a chicken comb extract-containing supplement on subclinical joint pain in collegiate soccer players

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