Muscle injury rates in professional football increase with fixture congestion: An 11-year follow-up of the UEFA Champions League injury study

British Journal of Sports Medicine

Volumn 47, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 743-747

  Bengtsson, Hakan ^a   Ekstrand, Jan ^a,b   Hägglund, Martin ^a  

^a LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UEFA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATHLETIC INJURIES; ATHLETIC PERFORMANCE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONVALESCENCE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MALE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SOCCER; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TIME; WORKLOAD; ARTICLE; FATIGUE; INJURY; MUSCLE DAMAGE/INJURIES; SPORT INJURY; SPORTING INJURIES; STATISTICS;

ATHLETIC INJURIES; ATHLETIC PERFORMANCE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; RISK FACTORS; SOCCER; TIME FACTORS; WORKLOAD;

FATIGUE; MUSCLE DAMAGE/INJURIES; SOCCER; SPORTING INJURIES;

EID: 84880432533     PISSN: 03063674     EISSN: 14730480     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bjsports-2013-092383     Document Type: Article

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