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Sensors, 2023 The Nordic hamstring exercise (NHE) is a very popular exercise used to improve eccentric strength and prevent injuries. The aim of this investigation was to assess the reliability of a portable dynamometer that measures maximal strength (MS) and rate of ...
Júlio A. Costa +4 more
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Are Soccer and Futsal Affected by the Relative Age Effect? The Portuguese Football Association Case
Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 A better understanding of the relative age effect (RAE) in youth will increase the awareness of the need for reducing the bias of (de)selection.
Pedro Figueiredo +6 more
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Effects of dietary supplements on athletic performance in elite soccer players: a systematic review
Journal of the International Society of Sports Nutrition, 2023 Dietary supplements are widely used among athletes, and soccer players are no exception. Nevertheless, evidence supporting the use of dietary supplements aiming to enhance performance in soccer is somewhat contradictory, scarce, or even nonexistent. Thus,
Rodrigo Abreu +4 more
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An Improved Passing Network for Evaluating Football Team Performance
Applied Sciences, 2023 With the continuous development of sensor technology, the realization of football techniques and tactics comes with richer technical support. Among them, network analysis has been widely used to analyze passing behavior, and some results have been ...
Wenxuan Zhou +3 more
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Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Injury Incidence in Japanese Male Professional Soccer Players
Orthopaedic Journal of Sports Medicine, 2023 Background: The outbreak of the 2019 novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) led to an enforced quarantine period and limited training and match activities for athletes.
Ryo Matsunaga MD, PhD +6 more
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Hidden Markov Model-Based Video Recognition for Sports
Advances in Mathematical Physics, 2021 In this paper, we conduct an in-depth study and analysis of sports video recognition by improved hidden Markov model. The feature module is a complex gesture recognition module based on hidden Markov model gesture features, which applies the hidden ...
Zhiyuan Wang +3 more
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Social Science Quarterly, 2016 ObjectivesThis article relies on data from two samples of 47 and 49 European countries from 1950 through 2011 and 1,980 and 1,960 football domestic leagues, respectively, to explore to what extent political regimes affect the competitive balance in domestic football (soccer) leagues.MethodsWe run OLS cross‐sectional regressions comparing democracies ...
Ignacio Lago +2 more
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Sensors, 2020 During the COVID-19 pandemic, the temporary closure of physical activity and sports facilities, and the generalized cancellation or postponement of sports events have a massive impact on social and economic development.
Bruno Gonçalves +8 more
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Systematic Reviews, 2022 Background Isokinetic dynamometry (IKD) is considered as the gold standard method of eccentric hamstring strength measurement, but other devices are more portable, cost-effective, provide real-time data and are thus better suited to the mass testing ...
Daniel Torpey +4 more
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American Heart Journal, 1972 Classical migraine, including incapacitating visual field defects, repeatedly developed in five young men immediately after blows to the head while playing football and in no other circumstances. A similar condition occurred in a professional boxer and an isolated attack in a boy footballer.
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