What tools are available to properly assess risk of initial injury or reinjury?
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
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Learn more about protecting athletes from reinjury by adding lengthened state eccentric rehabilitation to your existing hamstring programme
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