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Epidemiology, Risk Factors, and Prevention

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Injuries and Health Problems in Football

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Muscle injuries are the most frequent type of injury in professional football, leading to significant economical and performance-related costs. Besides its high incidence in football and increased knowledge about it, muscle injury prevention is still a considerable challenge to sports professionals. This chapter is focused on muscle injury epidemiology, unveiling its risk factors and providing an insight about the strategies to reduce its occurrence.

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. Football Medicine®, Al Jazira SC, Abu Dhabi, UAE

    Paulo Barreira (Physiotherapist (PhD)/Osteopath) & Ruben Ferreira (Physiotherapist)

  2. Clínica do Dragão, Espregueira-Mendes Sports Centre – FIFA Medical Centre of Excellence, Porto, Portugal

    João Pedro Araújo & Nuno Loureiro

  3. Football Medicine, Medical Department, Al Jazira Football Club, Abu Dhabi, UAE

    João Pedro Araújo

  4. Medical Director of Paços Ferreira FC, Paços de Ferreira, Portugal

    Nuno Loureiro

  5. Medical Director of Portuguese Cycling Federation and Medical Committee of the Portuguese Olympic Committee, Lisbon, Portugal

    Nuno Loureiro

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Editors and Affiliations

  1. Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Academic Medical Centre, Amsterdam Zuidoost, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands

    C. Niek van Dijk

  2. Hopital de la Croix-Rousse, University of Lyon 1 Hopital de la, Croix-Rousse, Lyon, France

    Philippe Neyret

  3. Department of Orthopedics & Traumatology, Federal University of São Paulo, Vila Clementino - São Paulo, Brazil

    Moises Cohen

  4. Isokinetic Medical Group, FIFA Medical Centre of Excellence, Bologna, Italy

    Stefano Della Villa

  5. 3B’s Research Group–Biomaterials, Biodegradables and Biomimetics, University of Minho, Headquarters of the European Institute of Excellence on Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine, AvePark, Parque de Ciência e Tecnologia, Zona Industrial da Gandra, Barco, Guimarães, Portugal

    Helder Pereira

  6. ICVS/3B’s–PT Government Associate Laboratory, Braga/Guimarães, Portugal

    J. Miguel Oliveira

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Barreira, P., Araújo, J.P., Ferreira, R., Loureiro, N. (2017). Epidemiology, Risk Factors, and Prevention. In: van Dijk, C., Neyret, P., Cohen, M., Della Villa, S., Pereira, H., Oliveira, J. (eds) Injuries and Health Problems in Football . Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-53924-8_32

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