CHALLENGES IN SPORTS MEDICINE DUE TO THE RISE OF INJURIES IN FOOTBALL
Since 2001, hamstring injuries – the most frequent kind of injury – have been increasing by 4% each year.
Since 2001, hamstring injuries – the most frequent kind of injury – have been increasing by 4% each year.
A short nap can reinforce the memory of what was learned just as well as a full night’s sleep.
Designing injury prevention programs is a top priority for coaching staff in the pursuit to reduce the incidence of injuries.
Not feeling rested after your first night away from home is normal and has traditionally been associated to psychological factors or fatigue from having travelled the day before.
The biceps femoris is one of the muscles that make up the hamstrings, which is one of the most injured muscle groups in sports such as football.
The relationship between health and athletic performance go hand in hand, and elite sports couldn’t be understood without the direct supervision of specialized doctors.
There is an increasing tendency among teenagers all over the world to sleep fewer hours during the week and to make up for it over the weekend.
Training load (TL) management is a key component for optimising performance. Understanding TL will allow us to evaluate fatigue and to anticipate overload and overtraining in order to minimise injury risk.
Chronic Achilles tendinopathy is one of the most common tendon disorders, both for athletes and for people who are not necessarily involved in sports.
FC Barcelona’s first team doctors Mindaugas Gudelis and Ricard Pruna reviewed a series of cases and carried out a brief clinical analysis of familial hypercholesterolemia in high-performance athletes in an article for the scientific journal Apunts Medicina de L’Esport.