Introduction Football is the most popular team sport worldwide. Physiologically, football is a high technical running-based sport with bouts of high-intensity activities being interspersed with low-intensity activities. Due to the…
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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…
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…
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…
Several 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…
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….
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…
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…
Following his first article The importance of maximum strength on soccer our friend Francisco Tavares from Pure Strength Training, and Head of Strength and Conditioning from Cascais Rugby is back…
At Football Medicine we welcome external contribution from sports professionals . Our friend Francisco Tavares, from Pure strength training, and Head of Strength and Conditioning from Cascais Rugby wrote this interesting review…
