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Evaluating a standardised tool to explore the nature and extent of foot and ankle injuries in amateur and semi-professional footballers.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Most studies of football injuries include professional players and data have been collected in without a single validated, standardised tool. We aimed to develop a new standardised questionnaire for assessing injuries among non-professional footballers and pilot its use.

Method

A questionnaire was developed using input from footballers, healthcare professionals and triangulation from the literature. The new tool was piloted among players representing amateurs and semi-professionals. Their comments were used iteratively to improve the instrument.

Results

The development phase produced a 33-item questionnaire collecting quantitative and qualitative data. In the pilot phase, 42 questionnaires were distributed, 34 (81%) returned. Respondents reported total of 273 football-related injuries, 114 affecting the foot/ankle (70 at the ankle and 44 at the foot). In total, 44% of respondents had suffered one or more foot/ankle injuries in the past 12 months.

Conclusion

We developed a new standardised tool which we found to be well-completed by young male footballers in semi-professional and amateur settings with an excellent response rate. Our results suggested that foot/ankle injuries were common, larger studies in non-professionals are needed to identify risk factors for injury and develop pragmatic advice for prevention.

SUBMITTER: Evans S

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4864468 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Evaluating a standardised tool to explore the nature and extent of foot and ankle injuries in amateur and semi-professional footballers.

Evans S S Walker-Bone K K Otter S S

Foot (Edinburgh, Scotland) 20141223 1

<h4>Background</h4>Most studies of football injuries include professional players and data have been collected in without a single validated, standardised tool. We aimed to develop a new standardised questionnaire for assessing injuries among non-professional footballers and pilot its use.<h4>Method</h4>A questionnaire was developed using input from footballers, healthcare professionals and triangulation from the literature. The new tool was piloted among players representing amateurs and semi-p ...[more]

PMID: 25605413

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Evaluating a standardised tool to explore the nature and extent of foot and ankle injuries in amateur and semi-professional footballers.

Background

Method

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Evaluating a standardised tool to explore the nature and extent of foot and ankle injuries in amateur and semi-professional footballers.

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