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Soccer and Associated Sports Injuries

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Soccer is one of the most popular sports in the world. As a team and contact sports, all athletes are subject to various types of injuries ranging from head to toe. This chapter will define the injuries and show their mechanism of trauma and which athlete, accordingly to his or her position on the field, is more susceptible to these injuries. In addition, various data from the literature on the epidemiology of soccer-associated injuries are shown. Finally, one of the most important phases of the treatment, when the athlete is prepared to return to play, will be discussed.

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. Knee and Shoulder Institute, R. Prof. Francisco Basseti, Jr, 351 cs 32, Curitiba, PR, 82025-280, Brazil

    Lucio S. Ernlund

  2. Cajuru University Hospital – PUCPR, Curitiba, PR, Brazil

    Bruno Sbrissia & Fabiano Kupczik

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  1. Lucio S. Ernlund
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Correspondence to Lucio S. Ernlund .

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  1. Dept. Orthopedics & Traumatology, Hacettepe University Fac. Medicine, Ankara, Turkey

    Mahmut Nedim Doral

  2. Gothenburg, Sweden

    Jon Karlsson

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Ernlund, L.S., Sbrissia, B., Kupczik, F. (2013). Soccer and Associated Sports Injuries. In: Doral, M., Karlsson, J. (eds) Sports Injuries. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-36801-1_255-1

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