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Player Sex and Playing Surface Are Individual Predictors of Injuries in Professional Soccer Players

Pathophysiology, 2022
Background: The factors contributing to soccer injuries and their influence on the occurrence of injury are controversial and inconclusive. This study aimed to determine the association between player characteristics and playing factors with injuries in ...
Zakariya H. Nawasreh, Mohammad A. Yabroudi, Ahmad A. Darwish, Wesam A. Debes, Khaldoon M. Bashaireh   +4 more
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Potential Effects of Soccer Ball Characteristics on Ball-to-Head Contact: A Systematic Review

Journal of Functional Morphology and Kinesiology
Background: The aim of this study was to systematically review research on the effect of soccer ball characteristics on ball-to-head contact. Methods: This systematic review was conducted using electronic databases, which included PubMed, Cochrane, and ...
José M. Oliva-Lozano, Carlos D. Gómez-Carmona, José M. Muyor, George T. Chiampas, Barry Pauwels, Rick Cost   +5 more
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Post-Exercise Recovery Modalities in Male and Female Soccer Players of All Ages and Competitive Levels: A Systematic Review

Sports
Optimal recovery supports health and enhances performance in soccer players, yet the empirical evidence on various recovery strategies in soccer is complex to interpret.
Emaly Vatne, Jose M. Oliva-Lozano, Catherine Saenz, Rick Cost, Josh Hagen   +4 more
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The effect of combined training on players' body composition and their performance in beach soccer

Physical Education of Students
Background and Study Aim. Beach soccer is a high-intensity sport requiring a combination of aerobic capacity, strength, agility, and coordination, making training strategies crucial for optimizing performance and physical fitness.
Özgür Nalbant, Seyit Ahmet Süer
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Executive functioning in highly talented soccer players. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2014
Executive functions might be important for successful performance in sports, particularly in team sports requiring quick anticipation and adaptation to continuously changing situations in the field. The executive functions motor inhibition, attention and
Lot Verburgh, Erik J A Scherder, Paul A M van Lange, Jaap Oosterlaan   +3 more
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Potential financial loss and risk factors for hamstring muscle injuries in elite male Brazilian soccer players: a season-long prospective cohort pilot study

Frontiers in Sports and Active Living
PurposeThe aim of this pilot study was to analyze the potential financial loss and a range of potential risk factors for hamstring muscle injuries in elite Brazilian soccer.MethodsThirty-four male players (age: 25 ± 6 years; stature: 180 ± 8 cm; body ...
Otaviano Oliveira-Júnior, Otaviano Oliveira-Júnior, Tim J. Gabbett, Tim J. Gabbett, Natalia F. N. Bittencourt, Roberto C. Quintão, Guilherme F. Reis, João G. Claudino, Rodrigo C. P. Lasmar, Amanda A. O. Leopoldino   +9 more
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Measuring Impulse-DSI and its Derivatives Via the Isometric Belt Squat: Assessing Relationships with Sprint Ability Among Division 1 Team Sport Athletes

International Journal of Strength and Conditioning
The dynamic strength index (DSI) is a common athlete profiling tool that has traditionally been derived as the ratio between the peak force in the isometric mid-thigh pull (IMTP) and the countermovement jump (CMJ) to identify ballistic strength deficits.
Matthew Ward
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Epidemiological Findings of Soccer Injuries During the 2017 Gold Cup

Orthopaedic Journal of Sports Medicine, 2018
Background: Surveillance programs are vital to analyze the cause and nature of lesions and ultimately establish protocols of action to lower injury rates.
Jorge Chahla MD, PhD, Benjamin Sherman DO, Mark Cinque MD, Alejandro Miranda MD, William E. Garrett MD, PhD, George Chiampas DO, Hughie O’Malley PE, MT, Michael B. Gerhardt MD, Bert R. Mandelbaum MD   +8 more
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Soccer-related injuries utilization of U.S. emergency departments for concussions, intracranial injuries, and other-injuries in a national representative probability sample: Nationwide Emergency Department Sample, 2010 to 2013.

PLoS ONE, 2021
Soccer participation in the United States (U.S.) has increased over time, and injuries as well as interest to prevent injuries has become more common.
Gerardo Flores, Christopher C Giza, Barbara Bates-Jensen, Mary-Lynn Brecht, Dorothy Wiley   +4 more
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Dynamics of a Soccer Ball

Experimental Mathematics, 2014
Exploiting the symmetry of the regular icosahedron, Peter Doyle and Curt McMullen constructed a solution to the quintic equation. Their algorithm relied on the dynamics of a certain icosahedral equivariant map for which the icosahedron's twenty face-centers--one of its special orbits--are superattracting periodic points. The current study considers the
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