Risk factors for injuries in elite female soccer players | Semantic Scholar (2024)

This study indicated greater risk of sustaining a future soccer-related injury as FMS scores increase and presence of previous hip and low back injury and Functional Movement Screen (FMS) scores were independently associated with musculoskeletal injures.

A greater BMI was associated with lower extremity injuries in elite female soccer players, and increased knowledge on risk factors enables more targeted prevention strategies with the aim of reducing injury rates inFemale soccer players.

Injuries, notably sprains, to the ankle were common, suggesting a need for the implementation of specific injury prevention strategies for this joint, when compared with those of other investigations on female soccer players.

The risk of injury in elite female soccer players is multifactorial, complex, and associated with a range of intrinsic, and extrinsic factors.

Male elite players had a higher injury incidence than their female counterparts although no difference was observed in the incidence of moderate to severe injury.

Two recommendations are (1) prevention should primarily focus on these most common diagnoses and (2) players resuming soccer activities after an injury should be given special attention to resolve the remaining complaints and to prevent reinjuries.

Most of the injuries in beach soccer are caused by playing bare foot and lack of shoes and guards on the legs and feet, and then on the knee, which is likely to be effective in preventing injury by changing training, implementing proper techniques, and improving performance factors by using injuries preventive programs.

Female youth football players with a familial disposition of ACL injury had an increased risk of ACL injuries and acute knee injury, and these factors could be used in athlete screening to target preventive interventions.

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Age and previous injury were identified as the main risk factors for injury among elite football players from Iceland.

The injury rate was not different compared to male soccer, but knee injuries were more common, which is in accordance with previous studies, and none of the risk factors identified is easily applicable for future intervention studies in the attempts to reduce the injury rate in female soccer.

It is suggested that those with knee instability and those allowed to resume play with poorly rehabilitated or clinically unhealed injuries are more apt to sustain further injury.

The overall level of injury to professional footballers has been showed to be around 1000 times higher times higher than for industrial occupations generally regarded as high risk.

Multivariate logistic regression showed hyperextension of the knee joint, a low postural sway, reduced H/Q ratio during concentric action, and a higher exposure to soccer to significantly increase the risk of traumatic leg injury.

71% of the injuries proved to be explicable by and associated with player factors, equipment, playing ground, or rules, and 63% of players had tight muscles.

It is concluded that the injury incidence in the WUSA is lower than the 6.2 injuries per 1000 player hours found in the corresponding male professional league (Major League Soccer); however, knee injuries predominate even in these elite female athletes.

It is concluded that female elite soccer players sustain a high incidence of injury, with few injuries were major, but 17% of the players sustained a major knee injury during the year.

The majority of injuries were caused by tackles involving lateral or medial forces that created a corresponding eversion or inversion rotation of the foot or ankle, and the weightbearing status of the injured limb was a significant risk factor.

Playing actions with high injury risk were linked to contesting possession in areas of the pitch where possession of the ball is most vigorously contested, which were specific attacking and defending zones close to the goal.

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