14 Nov FSI Football Science Update

Quantifying Exposure and Intra-Individual Reliability of High-Speed and Sprint Running During Sided-Games Training in Soccer Players: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.

Dello Iacono A(1), McLaren SJ(2)(3), Macpherson TW(4), Beato M(5), Weston M(6), Unnithan VB(4), Shushan T(7).

Sports Med. 2022 Nov 4. doi: 10.1007/s40279-022-01773-1.

This systematic review on 104 studies found that the range of relative distances covered across small-sided games, medium-sided games, and large-sided games was 14.8  to 17.2 m.min-1 for high-speed running, 2.7 to 3.6 m.min-1 for very high-speed running, and 0.2 to 0.7 m.min-1 for sprinting. High-speed running parameters showed poor reliability with a pooled coefficient of variation of 22.8% related with device speed thresholds, pitch dimension, and game orientation.

 

 

In elite athletes with meniscal injuries, always repair the lateral, think about the medial! A systematic review.

D’Ambrosi R(1)(2), Meena A(3)(4), Raj A(5), Ursino N(6), Mangiavini L(6)(7), Herbort M(4)(8), Fink C(3)(4).

Knee Surg Sports Traumatol Arthrosc. 2022 Nov 2. doi: 10.1007/s00167-022-07208-8

This systematic review included 421 elite athletes in wrestling, baseball, soccer, rugby or handball. 77.7% patients received partial meniscectomy and 22.3% meniscal repair. After partial meniscectomy, 78.3% returned to their pre-injury activity levels, and a total of 12 (3.7%) patients, 10 of them with involvement of the lateral meniscus, required revision surgery. After meniscal repair, 75.5% patients returned to their pre-injury activity levels, and 16 (17.0%) required partial meniscectomy. Athletes required more time after meniscal repair, while meniscectomy was associated with a high risk of developing knee osteoarthritis over the years.

 

 

Extended Knee Control programme lowers weekly hamstring, knee and ankle injury prevalence compared with an adductor strength programme or self-selected injury prevention exercises in adolescent and adult amateur football players: a two-armed cluster-randomised trial with an additional comparison arm.

Lindblom H(1)(2), Sonesson S(3)(2), Torvaldsson K(3)(2), Waldén M(2)(4), Hägglund M(3)(2).

Br J Sports Med. 2022 Oct 31:bjsports-2022-105890. doi: 10.1136/bjsports-2022-105890

This study on amateur football teams found that 17 teams that implemented an extended version of the Knee Control injury prevention exercise programme (IPEP) during a 7-month season had similar incidence of hamstring, knee and ankle injuries than 12 teams using an adductor strength programme, but 29% lower incidence that 17 teams already using a self-selected IPEP.