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. 2019 Apr;53(7):449-456.
doi: 10.1136/bjsports-2018-099616. Epub 2018 Nov 9.

Recommendations for hamstring injury prevention in elite football: translating research into practice

Matthew Buckthorpe  1   2   3 , Steve Wright  1 , Stewart Bruce-Low  1 , Gianni Nanni  4 , Thomas Sturdy  1 , Aleksander Stephan Gross  1 , Laura Bowen  1 , Bill Styles  1 , Stefano Della Villa  2 , Michael Davison  3 , Mo Gimpel  1
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Recommendations for hamstring injury prevention in elite football: translating research into practice

Matthew Buckthorpe et al. Br J Sports Med. 2019 Apr.
No abstract available

Keywords: football; hamstrings; injury prevention; sports medicine.

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Competing interests: None declared.

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Figure 1
A diagram of factors to consider in hamstring muscle injury prevention. CV, cardiovascular.
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Figure 2
Graphical representation of the progressive increase of a player’s chronic high-speed running over the course of an 8-week intervention. The player begins with a chronic load of 2000 m representing a two-match load and is trained with the goal of progressively increasing his chronic training load, adopting a structured periodisation model to fluctuate the weekly training demands to achieve a chronic high-speed running of three matches equivalent per week. The current programme used a 2-week overload and 1-week deload maintaining the acute:chronic workload ratio below 1.4 (peak 1.35) and deload week remaining above 0.8 (lowest 0.82) to prevent acute heightened risk of injury. A, acute; C, chronic; HSR, high-speed running.
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