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Comprehensive warm-up programme to prevent injuries in young female footballers: cluster randomised controlled trial

BMJ 2008; 337 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.a2469 (Published 10 December 2008) Cite this as: BMJ 2008;337:a2469

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Timing of injuries during football matches

The following paper (and the references) regarding the timing of
injuries during football matches might be of interest:
Takahashi M, Fukuoka S, Nagano A. Evaluation of team-doctor actions during
football games in Japanese professional football. J Sci Med Sport (2008),
doi: 10.1016/j.jsams.2008.04.006
From these findings, the first 15 minutes and the last 30 minutes of
normal time are the most risky. Serious injury becomes more likely towards
the end of the match.

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28 April 2009
Nigel C Smeeton
Lecturer in Medical Statistics
King's College London SE1 3QD

Are injuries commoner in the first half?

I remain sceptical that warm-up programmes reduce injuries
in football matches. Biological plausibility for this
hypothesis should lead us to expect injuries will be
commoner in the first 10 to 20 minutes of a football match.
I wonder if any one is aware of research demonstrating this
temporal relationship? However I accept there will be
confounding factors affecting likelihood of injuries.

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11 January 2009
Paul A Hepple
GP
Muirhouse Medical Group, Edinburgh EH4 4PL
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