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Strength Conditioning Program to Prevent Adductor Muscle Strains in Football: Does it Really Help Professional Football Players?

Coaches at the professional level are often concerned about negative side effects from testing and intensive resistance training periods, and they are not willing to base their training prescriptions on data obtained from semiprofessional or amateur football players. Consequently, the purpose of thi...

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Autores principales: Núñez, Javier F., Fernandez, Ismael, Torres, Alberto, García, Sergio, Manzanet, Pablo, Casani, Pascual, Suarez-Arrones, Luis
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7504263/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32887522
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17176408
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author Núñez, Javier F.
Fernandez, Ismael
Torres, Alberto
García, Sergio
Manzanet, Pablo
Casani, Pascual
Suarez-Arrones, Luis
author_facet Núñez, Javier F.
Fernandez, Ismael
Torres, Alberto
García, Sergio
Manzanet, Pablo
Casani, Pascual
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description Coaches at the professional level are often concerned about negative side effects from testing and intensive resistance training periods, and they are not willing to base their training prescriptions on data obtained from semiprofessional or amateur football players. Consequently, the purpose of this study was to analyze the reliability and effectiveness of two adductor injury active prevention programs using the adductor/abductor ratio and deficit between legs, on the basis of adduction–abduction power output during the exercises proposed, in professional football players. Forty-eight professional football players undertook complementary strength training for the adductor and abductor muscles in their dominant and non-dominant legs, once or twice a week throughout the playing season. The volume of the session was determined by the adductor/abductor ratio and the deficit between legs in the last session training measured. The number and severity of muscle injuries per 1000 h of exposure were recorded. Both prevention programs showed a very low rate of adductor injury (0.27 and 0.07 injuries/1000 h) with mild-to-moderate severity, maintaining a balance in percentage asymmetry between dominant and non-dominant legs for adductor (10.37%) and in the adductor/abductor ratio (0.92) in top professional football players throughout the season. The strength conditioning program proposed can help to prevent adductor muscle injuries in top professional football players.
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spelling pubmed-75042632020-09-24 Strength Conditioning Program to Prevent Adductor Muscle Strains in Football: Does it Really Help Professional Football Players? Núñez, Javier F. Fernandez, Ismael Torres, Alberto García, Sergio Manzanet, Pablo Casani, Pascual Suarez-Arrones, Luis Int J Environ Res Public Health Article Coaches at the professional level are often concerned about negative side effects from testing and intensive resistance training periods, and they are not willing to base their training prescriptions on data obtained from semiprofessional or amateur football players. Consequently, the purpose of this study was to analyze the reliability and effectiveness of two adductor injury active prevention programs using the adductor/abductor ratio and deficit between legs, on the basis of adduction–abduction power output during the exercises proposed, in professional football players. Forty-eight professional football players undertook complementary strength training for the adductor and abductor muscles in their dominant and non-dominant legs, once or twice a week throughout the playing season. The volume of the session was determined by the adductor/abductor ratio and the deficit between legs in the last session training measured. The number and severity of muscle injuries per 1000 h of exposure were recorded. Both prevention programs showed a very low rate of adductor injury (0.27 and 0.07 injuries/1000 h) with mild-to-moderate severity, maintaining a balance in percentage asymmetry between dominant and non-dominant legs for adductor (10.37%) and in the adductor/abductor ratio (0.92) in top professional football players throughout the season. The strength conditioning program proposed can help to prevent adductor muscle injuries in top professional football players. MDPI 2020-09-02 2020-09 /pmc/articles/PMC7504263/ /pubmed/32887522 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17176408 Text en © 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Núñez, Javier F.
Fernandez, Ismael
Torres, Alberto
García, Sergio
Manzanet, Pablo
Casani, Pascual
Suarez-Arrones, Luis
Strength Conditioning Program to Prevent Adductor Muscle Strains in Football: Does it Really Help Professional Football Players?
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title_fullStr Strength Conditioning Program to Prevent Adductor Muscle Strains in Football: Does it Really Help Professional Football Players?
title_full_unstemmed Strength Conditioning Program to Prevent Adductor Muscle Strains in Football: Does it Really Help Professional Football Players?
title_short Strength Conditioning Program to Prevent Adductor Muscle Strains in Football: Does it Really Help Professional Football Players?
title_sort strength conditioning program to prevent adductor muscle strains in football: does it really help professional football players?
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7504263/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32887522
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17176408
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