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Knee Surgery, Sports Traumatology, Arthroscopy
Published in: Knee Surgery, Sports Traumatology, Arthroscopy 5/2004

01-09-2004 | Sports Medicine

Muscle strains in soccer: a five-year survey of an Italian major league team

Authors: Piero Volpi, Gianluca Melegati, Davide Tornese, Marco Bandi

Published in: Knee Surgery, Sports Traumatology, Arthroscopy | Issue 5/2004

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Abstract

We analyzed muscle injuries collected from an Italian major-league soccer team during the period 1995–2000. We considered all the muscle accidents that had required a player to stand down for three or more days. Among the overall injuries, muscle accidents were the most frequent, representing 30% (103 cases), followed by contusions (28%), sprains (17%) and tendinopathies (9%). There was one recurrence involving the hamstring. Lack of training was one of the causes of such injuries; in fact the training/match ratio of those seasons (3.6 to 1) show that there was little time for training compared to the number of matches.
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Metadata
Title
Muscle strains in soccer: a five-year survey of an Italian major league team
Authors
Piero Volpi
Gianluca Melegati
Davide Tornese
Marco Bandi
Publication date
01-09-2004
Publisher
Springer-Verlag
Published in
Knee Surgery, Sports Traumatology, Arthroscopy / Issue 5/2004
Print ISSN: 0942-2056
Electronic ISSN: 1433-7347
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00167-003-0478-0

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