TY - JOUR
T1 - Harmful association of sprinting with muscle injury occurrence in professional soccer match-play:
T2 - a two-season, league wide exploratory investigation from the Qatar Stars League
AU - Gregson, Warren
AU - Di Salvo, Valter
AU - Varley, Matthew
AU - Modonutti, Mattia
AU - Belli, Andrea
AU - Chamari, Karim
AU - Weston, Matthew
AU - Lolli, Lorenzo
AU - Eirale, Cristiano
PY - 2019/9/18
Y1 - 2019/9/18
N2 - Objective: To investigate the impact of physical efforts performed in the period preceding activity as a potential risk factor of muscle injury during match-play within a sample of professional soccer players.
Design: Observational cohort study.
Methods: Match load (running [>14.4-19.8 km/h], high-speed running [>19.8 km/h to 25.2 km/h], sprinting [> 25.2 km/], leading and explosive sprint type) averaged in 1-minute and 5-minute periods prior to an event or non event for 29 professional outfield soccer players. Conditional logistic and Poisson regression models estimated the risk of injury for a 2 within-subject standard deviation in match load or 1-action increment in the number of sprinting activities, respectively. Associations were deemed beneficial or harmful based on non-overlap of the 95% confidence intervals against thresholds of 0.90 and 1.11, respectively.
Results: An increment in sprinting distance [+ 2-SDs = 11 meters] covered over a 1-minute period (odds ratio [OR]: 1.22, 95%CI, 1.12 to 1.33) increased the odds of muscle injury.
Conclusions: Our study provides novel exploratory evidence that the volume of sprinting during competitive soccer match-play has a harmful association with muscle injury occurrence.
AB - Objective: To investigate the impact of physical efforts performed in the period preceding activity as a potential risk factor of muscle injury during match-play within a sample of professional soccer players.
Design: Observational cohort study.
Methods: Match load (running [>14.4-19.8 km/h], high-speed running [>19.8 km/h to 25.2 km/h], sprinting [> 25.2 km/], leading and explosive sprint type) averaged in 1-minute and 5-minute periods prior to an event or non event for 29 professional outfield soccer players. Conditional logistic and Poisson regression models estimated the risk of injury for a 2 within-subject standard deviation in match load or 1-action increment in the number of sprinting activities, respectively. Associations were deemed beneficial or harmful based on non-overlap of the 95% confidence intervals against thresholds of 0.90 and 1.11, respectively.
Results: An increment in sprinting distance [+ 2-SDs = 11 meters] covered over a 1-minute period (odds ratio [OR]: 1.22, 95%CI, 1.12 to 1.33) increased the odds of muscle injury.
Conclusions: Our study provides novel exploratory evidence that the volume of sprinting during competitive soccer match-play has a harmful association with muscle injury occurrence.
M3 - Article
SN - 1440-2440
JO - Journal of Science and Medicine in Sport
JF - Journal of Science and Medicine in Sport
ER -