In recent decades, football had an important change in all its aspects: there was an increased intensityand frequency of training sessions and matches. In particular stress to which the athletesmust be submitted has changed. This has led to an apparent increase in the incidence of injuries.The overall injury level of professional footballers has been shown to be high, approximately 1,000times than of common industrial occupations generally regarded as high risk. The Federation of InternationalFootball Associations (FIFA) and the union of European Football Associations (uEFA) areconcerned about the risk profile and injury characteristics of the sport.In 1999, uefa started a research project with the aim to decrease the number of injuries and increaseoccupational safety for professional footballers.FIgC, Italian Football Federation, has started in January 2011 a Sports injury survey system regardingall male and female youth teams, according to uEFA injury study model.The purpose of this study was to evaluate the injuries of the Italian national youth teams over oneseason. The affected anatomic sites, incidence rate, and type and severity of injuries are analyzed.All this data could help us to facilitate the development of management strategies in health, especiallyin the field of preventive medicine.This study describes the injuries of the Italian national male and female youth teams during friendly,official and tournament matches and training camps during one season, for a total of 2 femaleteams (under 17 e under 19), and 6 male teams (under 16, under 17, under 18 under 19, under21).only male teams under 17, 19, 21 and female 17, 19 had official competitions, while the remaininghad only friendly matches and training sessions.Two hundred ninety-one athletes of Italian national youth teams were studied during training,friendly matches and official matches.The following data were collected using a special form of evaluation: number of players, exposuretraining, exposure match, total number of injuries, total number of injuries during matches, totalnumber of injuries during training.The registration of the injuries was based on a clinical examination by the team physician and accordingto the uEFA model.Exposure was documented individually in minutes and expressed as the number of playing hours.Injury incidence is expressed as the mean number of injuries per 1,000 h of exposure.
YOUTH NATIONAL ITALIAN SOCCER TEAM INJURY STUDY: A PRELIMINARY SURVEY
Costabile C;
2012-01-01
Abstract
In recent decades, football had an important change in all its aspects: there was an increased intensityand frequency of training sessions and matches. In particular stress to which the athletesmust be submitted has changed. This has led to an apparent increase in the incidence of injuries.The overall injury level of professional footballers has been shown to be high, approximately 1,000times than of common industrial occupations generally regarded as high risk. The Federation of InternationalFootball Associations (FIFA) and the union of European Football Associations (uEFA) areconcerned about the risk profile and injury characteristics of the sport.In 1999, uefa started a research project with the aim to decrease the number of injuries and increaseoccupational safety for professional footballers.FIgC, Italian Football Federation, has started in January 2011 a Sports injury survey system regardingall male and female youth teams, according to uEFA injury study model.The purpose of this study was to evaluate the injuries of the Italian national youth teams over oneseason. The affected anatomic sites, incidence rate, and type and severity of injuries are analyzed.All this data could help us to facilitate the development of management strategies in health, especiallyin the field of preventive medicine.This study describes the injuries of the Italian national male and female youth teams during friendly,official and tournament matches and training camps during one season, for a total of 2 femaleteams (under 17 e under 19), and 6 male teams (under 16, under 17, under 18 under 19, under21).only male teams under 17, 19, 21 and female 17, 19 had official competitions, while the remaininghad only friendly matches and training sessions.Two hundred ninety-one athletes of Italian national youth teams were studied during training,friendly matches and official matches.The following data were collected using a special form of evaluation: number of players, exposuretraining, exposure match, total number of injuries, total number of injuries during matches, totalnumber of injuries during training.The registration of the injuries was based on a clinical examination by the team physician and accordingto the uEFA model.Exposure was documented individually in minutes and expressed as the number of playing hours.Injury incidence is expressed as the mean number of injuries per 1,000 h of exposure.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
