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Jan Ekstrand
Researcher at Linköping University
Publications - 224
Citations - 22636
Jan Ekstrand is an academic researcher from Linköping University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Poison control & Injury prevention. The author has an hindex of 70, co-authored 218 publications receiving 19940 citations. Previous affiliations of Jan Ekstrand include Karolinska University Hospital & Karolinska Institutet.
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Consensus statement on injury definitions and data collection procedures in studies of football (soccer) injuries
Colin W Fuller,Jan Ekstrand,Astrid Junge,Thor Einar Andersen,Roald Bahr,Jiri Dvorak,Martin Hägglund,Paul McCrory,Willem H. Meeuwisse +8 more
TL;DR: Recommendations are made on how the incidence of match and training injuries should be reported and a checklist of issues and information that should be included in published reports of studies of football injuries is presented.
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Injury incidence and injury patterns in professional football: the UEFA injury study
TL;DR: The training and match injury incidences were stable over the period with no significant differences between seasons, and the risk of injury increased with time in each half of matches.
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Epidemiology of Muscle Injuries in Professional Football (Soccer)
TL;DR: Muscle injuries constitute almost one third of all time-loss injuries in men’s professional football, and 92% of all injuries affect the 4 big muscle groups in the lower limbs.
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Soccer injuries and their mechanisms: a prospective study.
Jan Ekstrand,Jan Gillquist +1 more
TL;DR: It is suggested that those with knee instability and those allowed to resume play with poorly rehabilitated or clinically unhealed injuries are more apt to sustain further injury.
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Previous injury as a risk factor for injury in elite football: a prospective study over two consecutive seasons
TL;DR: Overall injury incidences were similar between consecutive seasons, indicating that an injury surveillance study covering one full season can provide a reasonable overview of the injury problem among elite football players in a specific environment, but a prolonged study period is recommended for analyses of specific injury patterns.