Introduction Running is an activity present in most of the sports we know (Tongen & Wunderlich, 1994). Every healthy person experienced running in life (Dugan & Bhat, 2005), even…
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Muscle injury is the most frequent injury in soccer and one of the athlete's worst “enemies”. After the Player gets injured, one of his first questions is “when will I…
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At Football Medicine® we always welcome the sharing of relevant knowledge to the sports medicine community, reason we challenged the Portuguese physiotherapist Bruno Rodrigues to provide an external collaboration to our…
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As we all know, preventing/reducing injuries’ incidence is one of the biggest challenges in professional sports teams, as well as a nightmare for coaching staff, Medical staff and management. Regardless…
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Introduction The leg-extension machine has been used extensively for decades in gyms and clinics, either to improve athletes' performance and/or use in rehabilitation programs. However, over the last years, it…
Read MoreSeveral research has been performed about fatigue in football (4,9,15,20,25) and particular attention should be paid to its association with injury risk. Does fatigue only influences soft tissue injury or…
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Days between matches: how should they affect your training and prevent injuries In professional football, load management and periodization strategies play a crucial role both in performance and injury prevention.…
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Following his previous colaborations, our friend Francisco Tavares from Pure Strength Training, and Strength and Conditioning from Chiefs Super Rugby bring us an article on Power training for football. Because…
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Football Medicine® was at the XII Congress of the Arthroscopy and Traumatology Portuguese Society, also known as SPAT - Sociedade Portuguesa de Artroscopia e Traumatologia Desportiva, through Skype, to present a…
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Football Medicine and training methodology Part I: Are you still running around the pitch? Football as a worldwide sport has been suffering evolutions in the way the game has been…
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