Muscle Flexibility as a Risk Factor for Developing Muscle Injuries in Male Professional Soccer Players A Prospective Study
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...Evidence-based information on risk factors for hamstring muscle injuries is limited,(11,35) and this situation is compounded because some evidence was derived from studies in which the numbers of participants were small,(2,10,12,17,33,41,46,47) players’ exposure data were not recorded,(2,4,10,12,17,41,47,52) or case-control study designs were used.(2,12,13,17,47,50,54,56) Hamstring muscle injuries invariably result from the interaction of several modifiable and nonmodifiable risk factors....
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...These study designs can determine whether interventions intended to improve purported causative factors result in reductions in the risk of sustaining an HSI....
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...[5,81,82,84,86] One of the earliest studies to examine the relationship between H :Qconv ratios and future injury risk found that American footballers with a H :Qconv ratio of less than 0.50 were at an elevated risk of HSI....
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...[32,49,93,94] This section details those prospective studies, which have identified unalterable and alterable factors that elevate the risk of an athlete sustaining an HSI....
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...In contrast to popular belief, Australian footballers with a history ofHSIs, who displayed greater sit-and-reach flexibility were actually more likely to sustain a recurrent HSI....
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...7.1.2 Previous Injury A number of studies have indicated that Australian footballers with previous HSIs are at an elevated risk of sustaining a future HSI....
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...This logistic regression model has become, in many fields, the standard method of analysis in this situation.(13) Significance was accepted at the 0....
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...commonly postulated risk factors for the development of muscle injuries.(7,8,30,32) Despite this, a review of the literature shows that information concerning muscle flexibility as an intrinsic risk factor for musculoskeletal injuries in soccer players is incomplete, and prospective studies are scarce....
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...In general, a distinction in risk factors has been made between socalled intrinsic (person-related) and extrinsic (environment-related) risk factors.(15,28,30) In 1983, Ekstrand and Gillquist(4) showed the importance of extrinsic risk factors in the occurrence of soccer injuries....
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...It has been found that as many as 68% to 88% of all soccer injuries occur in the lower extremities.(1,5,6,12) About one-fourth of soccer injuries are musculoskeletal lesions mainly located in the thigh (17%) and the groin (8%)....
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