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Are athletes returning to sport after COVID-19 more at risk of injury?< Back

What tools are available to properly assess risk of initial injury or reinjury?

Biodex Isokinetic system from IPRS Mediquipe for elite football injury


Nicol van Dyk, et al.
 recently published a paper, “There Are Many Good Reasons to Screen Your Athletes” in which the concept of “Odds Ratio” (OR) of injury is discussed rather than prediction of injury. They collected data on 614 subjects and 190 injuries during a Periodic Health Evaluation (PHE). “In the 558 professional football [soccer] players included, more than a third had a musculoskeletal condition requiring follow-up in the form of prevention intervention or treatment.” Click to read paper

Sports medicine professionals should ask what the response must be to dampen the effect of these altered training cycles on the athlete’s preparedness.

Read Biodex article - click here

 

Learn more about protecting athletes from reinjury by adding lengthened state eccentric rehabilitation to your existing hamstring programme

Download Study: HAMSTRING INJURY REHABILITATION AND PREVENTION OF REINJURY USING LENGTHENED STATE ECCENTRIC TRAINING: A NEW CONCEPT

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