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Response to Comment On: “Injury Profile in Women’s Football: A Systematic Review and Meta‑Analysis”

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  1. Centre for Sport Studies, King Juan Carlos University, Madrid, Spain

    Alejandro López-Valenciano

  2. Universidad Internacional Isabel I de Castilla, Burgos, Spain

    Javier Raya-González

  3. Statistics, Operative Research Center, Universidad Miguel Hernández, Alicante, Spain

    Jose Alberto Garcia-Gómez

  4. Department of Physical Activity and Sport, Faculty of Sport Sciences, Regional Campus of International Excellence “Campus Mare Nostrum”, University of Murcia, Murcia, Spain

    Alba Aparicio-Sarmiento, Pilar Sainz de Baranda & Francisco Ayala

  5. Sports and Musculoskeletal System Research Group (RAQUIS), University of Murcia, Murcia, Spain

    Alba Aparicio-Sarmiento, Pilar Sainz de Baranda & Francisco Ayala

  6. School of Sport and Exercise, University of Gloucestershire, Gloucester, UK

    Mark De Ste Croix

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Alejandro López-Valenciano, Javier Raya-González, Jose Alberto Garcia-Gómez, Alba Aparicio-Sarmiento, Pilar Sainz de Baranda, Mark De Ste Croix, and Francisco Ayala declare they have no conflicts of interest relevant to the contents of this response.

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All authors contributed to the conception and design of this response to the letter to the editor by Mayhew et al. [1]. The first draft of the response was written by FA and all authors commented on subsequent versions. All authors read and approved the final response.

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This comment refers to the article available at https://doi.org/10.1007/s40279-020-01401-w.

This is a reply to a letter, which is available at https://doi.org/10.1007/s40279-021-01531-9.

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López-Valenciano, A., Raya-González, J., Garcia-Gómez, J.A. et al. Response to Comment On: “Injury Profile in Women’s Football: A Systematic Review and Meta‑Analysis”. Sports Med 51, 2667–2670 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40279-021-01532-8

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