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Time before return to play for the most common injuries in professional football: a 16-year follow-up of the UEFA Elite Club Injury Study

OBJECTIVES: The objective was to describe the typical duration of absence following the most common injury diagnoses in professional football. METHODS: Injuries were registered by medical staff members of football clubs participating in the Union of European Football Association Elite Club Injury St...

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Autores principales: Ekstrand, Jan, Krutsch, Werner, Spreco, Armin, van Zoest, Wart, Roberts, Craig, Meyer, Tim, Bengtsson, Håkan
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7146935/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31182429
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bjsports-2019-100666
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author Ekstrand, Jan
Krutsch, Werner
Spreco, Armin
van Zoest, Wart
Roberts, Craig
Meyer, Tim
Bengtsson, Håkan
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Krutsch, Werner
Spreco, Armin
van Zoest, Wart
Roberts, Craig
Meyer, Tim
Bengtsson, Håkan
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description OBJECTIVES: The objective was to describe the typical duration of absence following the most common injury diagnoses in professional football. METHODS: Injuries were registered by medical staff members of football clubs participating in the Union of European Football Association Elite Club Injury Study. Duration of absence due to an injury was defined by the number of days that passed between the date of the injury occurrence and the date when the medical team allowed the player to return to full participation. In total, 22 942 injuries registered during 494 team-seasons were included in the study. RESULTS: The 31 most common injury diagnoses constituted a total of 78 % of all reported injuries. Most of these injuries were either mild (leading to a median absence of 7 days or less, 6440 cases = 42%) or moderate (median absence: 7–28 days, 56% = 8518 cases) while only few (2% = 311 cases) were severe (median absence of >28 days). The mean duration of absence from training and competition was significantly different (p < 0.05) between index injuries and re-injuries for six diagnoses (Achilles tendon pain, calf muscle injury, groin adductor pain, hamstring muscle injuries and quadriceps muscle injury) with longer absence following re-injuries for all six diagnoses CONCLUSIONS: The majority of all time loss due to injuries in professional football stems from injuries with an individual absence of up to 4 weeks. This article can provide guidelines for expected time away from training and competition for the most common injury types as well as for its realistic range.
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spelling pubmed-71469352020-04-15 Time before return to play for the most common injuries in professional football: a 16-year follow-up of the UEFA Elite Club Injury Study Ekstrand, Jan Krutsch, Werner Spreco, Armin van Zoest, Wart Roberts, Craig Meyer, Tim Bengtsson, Håkan Br J Sports Med Original Research OBJECTIVES: The objective was to describe the typical duration of absence following the most common injury diagnoses in professional football. METHODS: Injuries were registered by medical staff members of football clubs participating in the Union of European Football Association Elite Club Injury Study. Duration of absence due to an injury was defined by the number of days that passed between the date of the injury occurrence and the date when the medical team allowed the player to return to full participation. In total, 22 942 injuries registered during 494 team-seasons were included in the study. RESULTS: The 31 most common injury diagnoses constituted a total of 78 % of all reported injuries. Most of these injuries were either mild (leading to a median absence of 7 days or less, 6440 cases = 42%) or moderate (median absence: 7–28 days, 56% = 8518 cases) while only few (2% = 311 cases) were severe (median absence of >28 days). The mean duration of absence from training and competition was significantly different (p < 0.05) between index injuries and re-injuries for six diagnoses (Achilles tendon pain, calf muscle injury, groin adductor pain, hamstring muscle injuries and quadriceps muscle injury) with longer absence following re-injuries for all six diagnoses CONCLUSIONS: The majority of all time loss due to injuries in professional football stems from injuries with an individual absence of up to 4 weeks. This article can provide guidelines for expected time away from training and competition for the most common injury types as well as for its realistic range. BMJ Publishing Group 2020-04 2019-06-10 /pmc/articles/PMC7146935/ /pubmed/31182429 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bjsports-2019-100666 Text en © Author(s) (or their employer(s)) 2020. Re-use permitted under CC BY-NC. No commercial re-use. See rights and permissions. Published by BMJ. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This is an open access article distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited, appropriate credit is given, any changes made indicated, and the use is non-commercial. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/.
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Ekstrand, Jan
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van Zoest, Wart
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Meyer, Tim
Bengtsson, Håkan
Time before return to play for the most common injuries in professional football: a 16-year follow-up of the UEFA Elite Club Injury Study
title Time before return to play for the most common injuries in professional football: a 16-year follow-up of the UEFA Elite Club Injury Study
title_full Time before return to play for the most common injuries in professional football: a 16-year follow-up of the UEFA Elite Club Injury Study
title_fullStr Time before return to play for the most common injuries in professional football: a 16-year follow-up of the UEFA Elite Club Injury Study
title_full_unstemmed Time before return to play for the most common injuries in professional football: a 16-year follow-up of the UEFA Elite Club Injury Study
title_short Time before return to play for the most common injuries in professional football: a 16-year follow-up of the UEFA Elite Club Injury Study
title_sort time before return to play for the most common injuries in professional football: a 16-year follow-up of the uefa elite club injury study
topic Original Research
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7146935/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31182429
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bjsports-2019-100666
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