Benoit Delaval
Recovery During a Congested Schedule and Injury in Professional Football
Delaval, Benoit; Abaïdia, Abd-Elbasset; Delecroix, Barthélémy; Le Gall, Franck; McCall, Alan; Ahmaidi, Said; Dupont, Gregory
Authors
Abd-Elbasset Abaïdia
Barthélémy Delecroix
Franck Le Gall
Dr Alan McCall A.McCall@napier.ac.uk
Research Fellow
Said Ahmaidi
Gregory Dupont
Abstract
Purpose: To analyze the relationships between the recovery kinetics experienced by professional football players and noncontact injury. Methods: A cohort of 46 professional football players (age 24.2 [4.7] y) from the same team (French Ligue 1) was monitored each day between matches when the team played twice a week. The recovery monitoring procedure was implemented after 38 matches and included some questionnaires: duration of sleep, Hooper scale (quality of sleep, level of stress, fatigue, and muscle soreness), perceived recovery status scale, creatine kinase concentrations, a countermovement jump, and an isometric force test. Noncontact injuries were collected during these periods. Results: Noncontact injuries were associated with perceived fatigue and muscle soreness 2 days (relative risk [RR] = 1.89 and 1.48, respectively) and 3 days following the matches (RR = 2.08 and 2.08, respectively). An increase of sleep quantity during the 2 nights following a match was significantly associated with a lower RR (RR = 0.65), as well as a lower decrement score on the isometric force test on each of the 3 days after the matches (RR = 0.97, RR = 0.99, and RR = 0.97, respectively). No other association was reported for the variables sleep quality, stress, perceived recovery, creatine kinase concentrations, countermovement jump, and noncontact injuries. Conclusion: During a congested schedule, implementing a recovery monitoring protocol including questionnaires about fatigue, muscle soreness, quantity of sleep, and a physical test of isometric force could help practitioners prevent injuries.
Citation
Delaval, B., Abaïdia, A.-E., Delecroix, B., Le Gall, F., McCall, A., Ahmaidi, S., & Dupont, G. (2022). Recovery During a Congested Schedule and Injury in Professional Football. International Journal of Sports Physiology and Performance, 17(9), 1399-1406. https://doi.org/10.1123/ijspp.2021-0504
Journal Article Type | Article |
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Online Publication Date | Apr 28, 2022 |
Publication Date | Sep 1, 2022 |
Deposit Date | Oct 13, 2022 |
Journal | International Journal of Sports Physiology and Performance |
Print ISSN | 1555-0265 |
Electronic ISSN | 1555-0273 |
Publisher | Human Kinetics |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Volume | 17 |
Issue | 9 |
Pages | 1399-1406 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1123/ijspp.2021-0504 |
Keywords | soccer; team sport; risk factor; injury prevention; monitoring |
Public URL | http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/2932726 |
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