Relation between lower limb comfort and performance in elite footballers

Kinchington, Michael A; Ball, Kevin; Naughton, Géraldine

doi:10.1016/j.ptsp.2011.02.001

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“…Three studies used the Hassles and Uplifts Scale (HUS) [123] and showed greater daily hassles to be associated with increased injury in soccer players [37, 92, 93]. Findings from Kinchington et al [94] support the notion that increased perceptual fatigue is related to increased injury as ‘poor’ scores on the Lower-Limb Comfort Index (LLCI) [124] (i.e. an increase in perceptual fatigue) were related to increased lower-limb injury ( r = 0.88; p < 0.001) in elite contact-sport athletes.…”

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Training Load and Fatigue Marker Associations with Injury and Illness: A Systematic Review of Longitudinal Studies

2016

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BackgroundCoaches, sport scientists, clinicians and medical personnel face a constant challenge to prescribe sufficient training load to produce training adaption while minimising fatigue, performance inhibition and risk of injury/illness.ObjectiveThe aim of this review was to investigate the relationship between injury and illness and longitudinal training load and fatigue markers in sporting populations.MethodsSystematic searches of the Web of Science and PubMed online databases to August 2015 were conducted for articles reporting relationships between training load/fatigue measures and injury/illness in athlete populations.ResultsFrom the initial 5943 articles identified, 2863 duplicates were removed, followed by a further 2833 articles from title and abstract selection. Manual searching of the reference lists of the remaining 247 articles, together with use of the Google Scholar ‘cited by’ tool, yielded 205 extra articles deemed worthy of assessment. Sixty-eight studies were subsequently selected for inclusion in this study, of which 45 investigated injury only, 17 investigated illness only, and 6 investigated both injury and illness. This systematic review highlighted a number of key findings, including disparity within the literature regarding the use of various terminologies such as training load, fatigue, injury and illness. Athletes are at an increased risk of injury/illness at key stages in their training and competition, including periods of training load intensification and periods of accumulated training loads.ConclusionsFurther investigation of individual athlete characteristics is required due to their impact on internal training load and, therefore, susceptibility to injury/illness.

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Training Load and Fatigue Marker Associations with Injury and Illness: A Systematic Review of Longitudinal Studies

2016

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“…The insole conditions were randomly assigned to participants. The comfort variables are the primary outcomes to assess the efficacy of foot insoles [47] and comfort level is related to the changes in sports performances [30].…”

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“…The foot insoles would increase subjective comfort and reduce pain/discomfort in various locomotion [22,29]. The increase of footwear comfort was related to higher performances [30] and lower incidence of injuries [31] in both training and competition in rugby. Studying both subjective comfort and movement mechanics could be necessary to determine the efficacy of foot insoles on jump landing performance in basketball.…”

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Effect of Red Arch-Support Insoles on Subjective Comfort and Movement Biomechanics in Various Landing Heights

Wang

Lam

Cheung

et al. 2020

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Red is perceived as a “winning color”, which may influence actual and perceived performances in sports, but little effort has been done to assess the added value on colored foot insoles in basketball movements. This study examined if colored foot insole would influence perceived comfort and lower extremity biomechanics during drop landing. Nineteen male basketball players performed drop landing trials with different insoles (red arch-support, white arch-support, and white-flat) and landing heights (0.45 and 0.61 m). Two-way (Insole x Height) ANOVAs with repeated measures were performed on each of the knee and ankle angles and moments variables. Wearing red arch-support insoles induced better perception of forefoot and rearfoot cushioning and overall comfort but smaller plantarflexion moment than the white-flat insoles (p < 0.05). Increased landing height was related to higher ground reaction loading, sagittal flexion angles, range of motion, and joint moments but smaller ankle eversion (p < 0.05). Findings indicate that foot insoles might have influenced comfort perception and joint kinetics, but not joint kinematics. The use of red color in foot insoles could potentially maximize the effectiveness of foot insoles in a way that alters comfort perception and motor control during landing, with implications for risk of injury.

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“…The results obtained in this study support the need for a multi-faceted approach. Furthermore, despite evidence for relationships between the comfort, injury prevention and performance characteristics of a football boot (Kinchington et al, 2012(Kinchington et al, , 2011and Luo et al, 2009), it appears that these relationships may not be strong enough to allow any category to be neglected in the assessment of the boot.…”

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“…Interestingly, injury protection was one of the lowest scoring desired properties (Hennig, 2014(Hennig, , 2011, despite evidence that overuse injuries and footwear comfort in football and rugby are interlinked (Kinchington et al, 2012(Kinchington et al, , 2011. Not only has discomfort been related to increased injury risk, previous studies have linked footwear discomfort to altered lower extremity loading, which consequently triggered muscular fatigue and thereby decreased performance (Kinchington et al, 2012(Kinchington et al, , 2011Luo et al, 2009). Given the importance placed on comfort by footballers (and the industry in their boot development process) combined with the suggested links with both performance and injury, it is relevant to better understand what objective factors influence comfort perception.…”

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Can subjective comfort be used as a measure of plantar pressure in football boots?

Kryger

Jarratt

Mitchell

et al. 2016

Journal of Sports Sciences

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Relation between lower limb comfort and performance in elite footballers

Cited by 29 publications

References 26 publications

Training Load and Fatigue Marker Associations with Injury and Illness: A Systematic Review of Longitudinal Studies

Training Load and Fatigue Marker Associations with Injury and Illness: A Systematic Review of Longitudinal Studies

Effect of Red Arch-Support Insoles on Subjective Comfort and Movement Biomechanics in Various Landing Heights

Can subjective comfort be used as a measure of plantar pressure in football boots?

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