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The 11+ Injury Prevention Programme (2008–2016)

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In the last 10 years, injury prevention has received a lot of attention in sports medicine and by sports governing bodies: as an example, the protection of the athlete’s health has recently become one of declared objectives of the International Olympic Committee.

In 1994 the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) created its FIFA Medical Assessment and Research Centre (F-MARC) with the aim “to prevent football injuries and to promote football as a health-enhancing leisure activity, improving social behaviour”. Since then, FIFA has developed and evaluated its injury prevention programme “11+” in different scientific studies, demonstrating how a simple exercise-based programme can significantly decrease the incidence of injuries in amateur football players. Important publications have further confirmed the preventive effects of 11+ and have evaluated its performance effects in amateur football players. Furthermore, implementation strategies of this prevention programme have also been studied, and 11+ have been implemented at a large scale in the real world of amateur football. From 2009 to 2016, FIFA has promoted and disseminated the 11+ injury prevention programme worldwide among its Member Associations. Adaptations of the injury prevention programme for children and referees have been developed and are currently being evaluated. This chapter summarises 22 years (1994–2016) of scientific and on-field work by F-MARC, in the spirit of its original aim “to prevent football injuries and to promote football as a health-enhancing leisure activity, improving social behaviour”.

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    Mario Bizzini Ph.D., P.T.

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  1. UPMC Rooney Sports Complex, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

    Volker Musahl

  2. Department of Orthopaedics, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden

    Jón Karlsson

  3. Department of Trauma Surgery, University Medical Centre Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany

    Werner Krutsch

  4. Santa Monica, California, USA

    Bert R. Mandelbaum

  5. Clínica do Dragão, Espregueira-Mendes Sports Centre, Porto, Portugal

    João Espregueira-Mendes

  6. Orthopaedic Surgery, Aspetar Hospital, Doha, Qatar

    Pieter d'Hooghe

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Bizzini, M. (2018). The 11+ Injury Prevention Programme (2008–2016). In: Musahl, V., Karlsson, J., Krutsch, W., Mandelbaum, B., Espregueira-Mendes, J., d'Hooghe, P. (eds) Return to Play in Football. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-55713-6_66

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