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2011 - 09 - 19 Publication from Anne Frisch, Sports Medicine Research Laboratory
The Sports Medicine Research Laboratory has developed an original sports injury surveillance system based on information technology. This system holds track of the athlete’s overall training characteristics and injury risk. It allows for a close real-time follow-up of the athlete based on objective risk indicators, as well as a complete description of the sports injury problem.
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The laboratory is applying this approach in various sport contexts, thus providing invaluable information for trainers, coaches, physiotherapists, medical doctors and decision makers to optimize the training load, orient prevention initiatives and safeguard the athlete’s health.
In this context and in July 2011, Anne Frisch from the Sports Medicine Research Laboratory has published a peer reviewed journal article on the “Association between preseason functional tests and injuries in youth football: a prospective follow-up”. This article has been published in the “Scandinavian Journal of Medicine and Science in Sports” in collaboration with the “Département des Sciences de la motricité, faculté de medicine” from the University of Liège (ULg), Belgium and the “Centre de l’appareil locomoteur de médecine du sport et de prevention” from the Centre Hospitalier de Luxembourg (CHL).
This prospective cohort study aimed at identifying player-related risk factors for injuries in youth football as determined by extensive preseasonal screening. All male U15-U19 players from a regional football school (season 2007-2008; n=67) underwent preseason evaluations assessing physical fatigue, emotional stress and injury history (questionnaire), anthropometric variables, general joint laxity (Beighton score), lower limb coordination (functional hop tests), aerobic fitness (shuttle run test), strength of knee extensor and flexor muscles (isokinetic tests), static and dynamic balance (force plate tests) and explosive strength (jump tests on force plate).
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