Dr Alan McCall's Outputs (26)

Development and evaluation of an ovarian hormone profile classification tool for female athletes: step one of a two-step process to determine ovarian hormone profiles (2024)
Journal Article
Elliott-Sale, K. J., Birdsey, L. P., Burden, R. J., Cable, N. T., Clausen, E., D'Souza, A. C., Dos’Santos, T., Field, A., Flood, T. R., Harris, R., McCall, A., McNulty, K. L., Ní Chéilleachair, N., O'Catháin, C., Phillips, S. M., Sherwin, G., Stebbings, G. K., Taim, B. C., Van Every, D. W., Więckowska, J., & Minahan, C. (2024). Development and evaluation of an ovarian hormone profile classification tool for female athletes: step one of a two-step process to determine ovarian hormone profiles. BMJ Open Sport & Exercise Medicine, 10(4), https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjsem-2024-002304

Objective: This study aimed to develop a reliable, comprehensive and fit-for-purpose tool for classifying ovarian hormone profiles (OHPs) (step one of a two-step process) in postmenarcheal to perimenopausal female athletes. Methods: The OHP classific... Read More about Development and evaluation of an ovarian hormone profile classification tool for female athletes: step one of a two-step process to determine ovarian hormone profiles.

Knowledge, attitude and behaviour around concussion at the FIFA Women’s World Cup 2023: part 2 – coaches, performance staff and players (2024)
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Wilke, C. F., Serner, A., Massey, A., McCall, A., Fulcher, M., Rosenbloom, C., Carmody, S., Patterson, S. D., & Okholm Kryger, K. (online). Knowledge, attitude and behaviour around concussion at the FIFA Women’s World Cup 2023: part 2 – coaches, performance staff and players. Science and Medicine in Football, https://doi.org/10.1080/24733938.2024.2385339

The objective of this observational cross-sectional study was to assess the knowledge, attitude and behaviour of coaches and performance staff (i.e. ‘coaching staff’), and players from the 32 teams qualified for the FIFA Women’s World Cup 2023 regard... Read More about Knowledge, attitude and behaviour around concussion at the FIFA Women’s World Cup 2023: part 2 – coaches, performance staff and players.

Knowledge, attitude, and behaviour around concussion at the FIFA Women’s World Cup 2023: part 1 - medical staff (2024)
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Wilke, C. F., Serner, A., Massey, A., McCall, A., Fulcher, M., Rosenbloom, C., Carmody, S., Patterson, S. D., & Okholm Kryger, K. (online). Knowledge, attitude, and behaviour around concussion at the FIFA Women’s World Cup 2023: part 1 - medical staff. Science and Medicine in Football, https://doi.org/10.1080/24733938.2024.2388190

The objective of this observational cross-sectional study was to assess the knowledge, attitudes and behaviours of medical staff participating in the FIFA Women’s World Cup 2023 regarding the assessment and management of concussion in football. Medic... Read More about Knowledge, attitude, and behaviour around concussion at the FIFA Women’s World Cup 2023: part 1 - medical staff.

Examination of the validity of the Injury-Psychological Readiness to Return to Sport (I-PRRS) scale in male professional football players: A worldwide study of 29 professional teams (2023)
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Dunlop, G., Ivarsson, A., Einar Andersen, T., Brown, S., O’Driscoll, G., Lewin, C., Dupont, G., Ardern, C. L., Delecroix, B., Podlog, L., & McCall, A. (2023). Examination of the validity of the Injury-Psychological Readiness to Return to Sport (I-PRRS) scale in male professional football players: A worldwide study of 29 professional teams. Journal of Sports Sciences, 41, 1906-1914. https://doi.org/10.1080/02640414.2024.2307764

Perceived confidence is an important dimension of an athlete’s psychological readiness to return-to-play. However, there is no established and validated tool to evaluate confidence in professional football. This study aimed to provide preliminary eva... Read More about Examination of the validity of the Injury-Psychological Readiness to Return to Sport (I-PRRS) scale in male professional football players: A worldwide study of 29 professional teams.

Do non-contact injuries occur during high-speed running in elite football? Preliminary results from a new GPS and video-based method (2023)
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Aiello, F., Di Claudio, C., Fanchini, M., Impellizzeri, F. M., McCall, A., Sharp, C., & Brown, S. J. (2023). Do non-contact injuries occur during high-speed running in elite football? Preliminary results from a new GPS and video-based method. Journal of Science and Medicine in Sport, 26(9), 465-470. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsams.2023.07.007

Objectives
Understanding how injuries occur (inciting circumstances) is useful for developing etiological hypotheses and prevention strategies that can be tested. The aims of this study were 1) to evaluate the feasibility of a method combining video... Read More about Do non-contact injuries occur during high-speed running in elite football? Preliminary results from a new GPS and video-based method.

Development of a Standardised System to Classify Injury-Inciting Circumstances in Football: the Football Injury Inciting Circumstances Classification System (FIICCS) (2023)
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Aiello, F., McCall, A., Brown, S. J., Serner, A., Fortington, L. V., Huurman, S. A. E., Lewin, C., Nagao, M., O’Brien, J., Panossian, A., Pruna, R., Ramos, G. P., Whalan, M., & Impellizzeri, F. M. (2023). Development of a Standardised System to Classify Injury-Inciting Circumstances in Football: the Football Injury Inciting Circumstances Classification System (FIICCS). Sports Medicine, 53(9), 1805-1818. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40279-023-01857-6

Background: A comprehensive examination of the sport-specific activities and circumstances being performed at the time of injury is important to hypothesise mechanisms, develop prevention strategies and inform future investigations. Results reported... Read More about Development of a Standardised System to Classify Injury-Inciting Circumstances in Football: the Football Injury Inciting Circumstances Classification System (FIICCS).

A Qualitative Study of 11 World-Class Team-Sport Athletes’ Experiences Answering Subjective Questionnaires: A Key Ingredient for ‘Visible’ Health and Performance Monitoring? (2023)
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McCall, A., Wolfberg, A., Ivarsson, A., Dupont, G., Larocque, A., & Bilsborough, J. (2023). A Qualitative Study of 11 World-Class Team-Sport Athletes’ Experiences Answering Subjective Questionnaires: A Key Ingredient for ‘Visible’ Health and Performance Monitoring?. Sports Medicine, 53(5), 1085-1100. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40279-023-01814-3

Background: Athlete monitoring trends appear to be favouring objective over subjective measures. One reason of potentially several is that subjective monitoring affords athletes to give dishonest responses. Indeed, athletes have never been systematic... Read More about A Qualitative Study of 11 World-Class Team-Sport Athletes’ Experiences Answering Subjective Questionnaires: A Key Ingredient for ‘Visible’ Health and Performance Monitoring?.

Football-specific extension of the IOC consensus statement: methods for recording and reporting of epidemiological data on injury and illness in sport 2020 (2023)
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Waldén, M., Mountjoy, M., McCall, A., Serner, A., Massey, A., Tol, J. L., Bahr, R., D'Hooghe, M., Bittencourt, N., Della Villa, F., Dohi, M., Dupont, G., Fulcher, M., Janse van Rensburg, D. C. (., Lu, D., & Andersen, T. E. (2023). Football-specific extension of the IOC consensus statement: methods for recording and reporting of epidemiological data on injury and illness in sport 2020. British Journal of Sports Medicine, 57(21), 1341-1350. https://doi.org/10.1136/bjsports-2022-106405

Several sports have published consensus statements on methods and reporting of epidemiological studies concerning injuries and illnesses with football (soccer) producing one of the first guidelines. This football-specific consensus statement was publ... Read More about Football-specific extension of the IOC consensus statement: methods for recording and reporting of epidemiological data on injury and illness in sport 2020.

Injury-inciting activities in male and female football players: a systematic review (2022)
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Aiello, F., Impellizzeri, F. M., Brown, S. J., Serner, A., & Mccall, A. (2023). Injury-inciting activities in male and female football players: a systematic review. Sports Medicine, 53(1), 151-176. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40279-022-01753-5

Background
A comprehensive examination of the sport-specific activities performed around the time of injury is important to hypothesise injury mechanisms, develop prevention strategies, improve management, and inform future investigations. The aim o... Read More about Injury-inciting activities in male and female football players: a systematic review.

A targeted metabolic analysis of football players and its association to player load: Comparison between women and men profiles (2022)
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Rodas, G., Ferrer, E., Reche, X., Sanjuan-Herráez, J. D., McCall, A., & Quintás, G. (2022). A targeted metabolic analysis of football players and its association to player load: Comparison between women and men profiles. Frontiers in Physiology, 13, Article 923608. https://doi.org/10.3389/fphys.2022.923608

Professional athletes undertake a variety of training programs to enhance their physical performance, technical-tactical skills, while protecting their health and well-being. Regular exercise induces widespread changes in the whole body in an extreme... Read More about A targeted metabolic analysis of football players and its association to player load: Comparison between women and men profiles.

Influence of the COVID-19 Lockdown and Restart on the Injury Incidence and Injury Burden in Men’s Professional Football Leagues in 2020: The UEFA Elite Club Injury Study (2022)
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Waldén, M., Ekstrand, J., Hägglund, M., McCall, A., Davison, M., Hallén, A., & Bengtsson, H. (2022). Influence of the COVID-19 Lockdown and Restart on the Injury Incidence and Injury Burden in Men’s Professional Football Leagues in 2020: The UEFA Elite Club Injury Study. Sports Medicine - Open, 8(1), Article 67. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40798-022-00457-4

Background
Studies on football and the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) have mainly focused on the lockdown consequences for player fitness, the resumption of football training, and how to safely restart the league play, but injury data are scarc... Read More about Influence of the COVID-19 Lockdown and Restart on the Injury Incidence and Injury Burden in Men’s Professional Football Leagues in 2020: The UEFA Elite Club Injury Study.

Recovery During a Congested Schedule and Injury in Professional Football (2022)
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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

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 m... Read More about Recovery During a Congested Schedule and Injury in Professional Football.

Drop-out from team sport among adolescents: A systematic review and meta-analysis of prospective studies (2022)
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Back, J., Johnson, U., Svedberg, P., McCall, A., & Ivarsson, A. (2022). Drop-out from team sport among adolescents: A systematic review and meta-analysis of prospective studies. Psychology of Sport and Exercise, 61, Article 102205. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psychsport.2022.102205

During the last decades, an increased drop-out rate in adolescents' team sport participation is observed. Given the potential adverse consequences of drop-out from team sport more information about risk factors for drop-out is warranted. The objectiv... Read More about Drop-out from team sport among adolescents: A systematic review and meta-analysis of prospective studies.

Can we evidence-base injury prevention and management in women’s football? A scoping review (2022)
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Okholm Kryger, K., Wang, A., Mehta, R., Impellizzeri, F., Massey, A., Harrison, M., Glendinning, R., & McCall, A. (2023). Can we evidence-base injury prevention and management in women’s football? A scoping review. Research in Sports Medicine, 31(5), 517-718. https://doi.org/10.1080/15438627.2022.2038161

This review aimed, as part of a larger FIFA project aiming to steer women’s football research, to scope literature on any level of competitive football for women, to understand the current quantity of research on women’s football injuries. The study... Read More about Can we evidence-base injury prevention and management in women’s football? A scoping review.

The Assessment, Management and Prevention of Calf Muscle Strain Injuries: A Qualitative Study of the Practices and Perspectives of 20 Expert Sports Clinicians (2022)
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Green, B., McClelland, J. A., Semciw, A. I., Schache, A. G., McCall, A., & Pizzari, T. (2022). The Assessment, Management and Prevention of Calf Muscle Strain Injuries: A Qualitative Study of the Practices and Perspectives of 20 Expert Sports Clinicians. Sports Medicine - Open, 8(1), Article 10. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40798-021-00364-0

Background
Despite calf muscle strain injuries (CMSI) being problematic in many sports, there is a dearth of research to guide clinicians dealing with these injuries. The aim of this study was to evaluate the current practices and perspectives of a... Read More about The Assessment, Management and Prevention of Calf Muscle Strain Injuries: A Qualitative Study of the Practices and Perspectives of 20 Expert Sports Clinicians.

Mental health and well-being during COVID-19 lockdown: A survey case report of high-level male and female players of an Italian Serie A football club (2021)
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Ivarsson, A., McCall, A., Mutch, S., Giuliani, A., Bassetto, R., & Fanchini, M. (2021). Mental health and well-being during COVID-19 lockdown: A survey case report of high-level male and female players of an Italian Serie A football club. Science and Medicine in Football, 5, 70-75. https://doi.org/10.1080/24733938.2021.1962540

Objectives
To describe high-level footballers’ levels and changes in mental health and well-being throughout a 8-week period of lockdown and restricted training during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Method
One-hundred and one players belonging to four t... Read More about Mental health and well-being during COVID-19 lockdown: A survey case report of high-level male and female players of an Italian Serie A football club.

Perceived load, fatigue and recovery responses during congested and non-congested micro-cycles in international football tournaments (2021)
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Noor, D., McCall, A., Jones, M., Duncan, C., Ehrmann, F., Meyer, T., & Duffield, R. (2021). Perceived load, fatigue and recovery responses during congested and non-congested micro-cycles in international football tournaments. Journal of Science and Medicine in Sport, 24(12), 1278-1283. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsams.2021.07.001

Objectives
To describe the perceived load, fatigue and recovery profiles during congested and non-congested schedules in international football tournaments.

Design
Retrospective single-cohort observational study.

Methods
Internal load (sessi... Read More about Perceived load, fatigue and recovery responses during congested and non-congested micro-cycles in international football tournaments.

The Use of Recovery Strategies in Professional Soccer: A Worldwide Survey (2021)
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Field, A., Harper, L. D., Chrismas, B. C., Fowler, P. M., McCall, A., Paul, D. J., Chamari, K., & Taylor, L. (2021). The Use of Recovery Strategies in Professional Soccer: A Worldwide Survey. International Journal of Sports Physiology and Performance, 16(12), 1804-1815. https://doi.org/10.1123/ijspp.2020-0799

Purpose: To survey soccer practitioners’ recovery strategy: (1) use, (2) perceived effectiveness, and (3) factors influencing their implementation in professional soccer. Methods: A cross-sectional convenience sample of professional soccer club/confe... Read More about The Use of Recovery Strategies in Professional Soccer: A Worldwide Survey.

Research in football: evolving and lessons we can learn from our mistakes (2021)
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McCall, A. (2021). Research in football: evolving and lessons we can learn from our mistakes. Science and Medicine in Football, 5(2), https://doi.org/10.1080/24733938.2021.1899275

Background: Football is evolving in many ways, including technical and physical demands as well as the scientific research underpinning and providing many recommendations to practitioners on how to optimise performance of players and by default, team... Read More about Research in football: evolving and lessons we can learn from our mistakes.

UEFA expert group statement on nutrition in elite football. Current evidence to inform practical recommendations and guide future research (2020)
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Collins, J., Maughan, R. J., Gleeson, M., Bilsborough, J., Jeukendrup, A., Morton, J. P., Phillips, S. M., Armstrong, L., Burke, L. M., Close, G. L., Duffield, R., Larson-Meyer, E., Louis, J., Medina, D., Meyer, F., Rollo, I., Sundgot-Borgen, J., Wall, B. T., Boullosa, B., Dupont, G., …McCall, A. (2021). UEFA expert group statement on nutrition in elite football. Current evidence to inform practical recommendations and guide future research. British Journal of Sports Medicine, 55(8), https://doi.org/10.1136/bjsports-2019-101961

Football is a global game which is constantly evolving, showing substantial increases in physical and technical demands. Nutrition plays a valuable integrated role in optimising performance of elite players during training and match-play, and maintai... Read More about UEFA expert group statement on nutrition in elite football. Current evidence to inform practical recommendations and guide future research.