OUR RESEARCH
Football injury prevention
Can we identify the injury profile of a soccer player? Can we asses injury risk? Can we classify player’s injury risk profile according to data collected from variables applied during this study ? Do we have the tools to provide an answer to this important question? Injury in soccer is a multifactorial process and therefor any attempt to predict an injury may hides insufficiency. However, collecting data regarding the physical and the performance profile of the player (strength, speed, Acc, Dcc, running distance, RPE….) the previous medical history, and the soccer game physical demands, (profile of the game) we may identify the performance capacities of both, the soccer and the player. Then, examining the information from injured players, we may conclude on the performance characteristics of the injured player, and we may come to a player injury zone characterization.