Injuries, which are multifactorial and the most complex issue reported by practitioners, have a huge negative impact on the performance and economy of professional football teams. As a starting point for decision making to reduce injury risk, teams should find an effective way to store and...

1. Return to Sports After Total Hip Arthroplasty: An Umbrella Review for Consensus Guidelines Sowers CB, Carrero AC, Cyrus JW, Ross JA, Golladay GJ, Patel NK Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, USA Am J Sports Med. 2021 Oct 20:3635465211045698. doi: 10.1177/03635465211045698 This systematic review on return to sport RTS...

Training based strategies to optimize readiness to play may be based on three main pillars. Firstly, the periodization process will serve as a framework of how the players will be biologically prepared in relation to match competition, the game being the key indicator. Most muscular...

1. Factors affecting return to play and graft re-rupture after primary ACL reconstruction in professional footballers. Balendra G, Jones M, Borque KA, Willinger L, Pinheiro VH, Williams A Fortius Clinic, London, UK Knee Surg Sports Traumatol Arthrosc. 2021 Oct 12. doi: 10.1007/s00167-021-06765-8 This retrospective review of 232 ACL surgical...

Travel fatigue (cumulative exposure to a travelling environment) and jet-lag (dysregulation between internal circadian rhythms and external daylight processes) are the main issues related to team travel that, if not appropriately managed, can negatively affect performance and risk of illness/injury. In terms of short-haul travel accumulation...

In soccer, load can be categorised into three components: cardiovascular or metabolic (internal (IL)), mechanical (ML) and locomotive (LL) load, the last two referring to external load. Information coming from all three components provide the whole loading picture of the player. The relationship and interaction between...