Sporting world

Expert study cautions that muscle strength testing alone cannot be used to predict injury risk among footballers 09 April 2018 – Doha, Qatar: A recent study from Aspetar, Qatar’s orthopaedic and sports medicine hospital, suggests that caution should be applied in using muscle strength to predict injury risk in football. Such an approach is regularly performed in the pre-season screening of football players around the world. Injuries and particularly those affecting players’ lower extremities are common in professional football, posing a considerable risk of morbidity and potentially negative long-term health consequences for players. It is to identify and possibly prevent such potential risks as well as diseases or disorders among athletes that sports clinicians widely practice a periodic health evaluation (PHE) or screening examination. Yet despite the widespread use of such approaches, the findings from Aspetar suggest that there is limited evidence such tests can succee