How Soccer Injuries Can Be Prevented

Soccer is a popular sport that is played all around the world. People from South America and other parts of the globe call this sport football. This game requires sports equipment, rules that need to be acknowledged, and each player obtains an assigned position. I was a part of Maine East freshman soccer team for a year. Not only is the sport exciting to play, but it is also interesting to watch the World Cup.

Soccer also called football in all the other countries. It has been invented in England in the 19th century. Soccer is the most important sport in the world with the greatest number of adherent. The team with the most goal wins the game. A game is divided in two half of 45 minutes with 15 minutes break between both parts. Each team has 11 players with one goalkeeper and ten players.

Soccer is played on a rectangular-shaped field with the object of the game being to score by using any body parts other than the hand and arms to score. The goalkeepers are the only ones that can use their hands to prevent goals. Soccer is considered as the greatest sport in the world for a numerous amount of reasons. Many people disagree and say that soccer is a very overrated sport but in my opinion this statement is false and for a number of reasons. The first reason is because of the popularity and support that the game has.

As the popularity of soccer increases, controversy in relation to safety concerns continues to rise as well. Due to the ineffectiveness of protective headgear among soccer players, athletes should focus on alternatives to successfully prevent injuries. Concerned parents, coaches, and athletes should heightening rules and regulations and should properly evaluate the accuracy and effectiveness of the soccer gear (i.e., balls, gloves, etc.) being used in order to reduce chances of serious

Football is one of the most popular sports played today, but, many injuries can occur while

Soccer. It’s a physical sport with plenty of completion, and with that comes injuries. Good morning class, today I will be talking to you about the soccer of sport, and the commonly occurring within the game, as well as talking specifically about sprained ankles and meniscus tears, and the rehabilitation processes for the two. The most common injuries within the sport of soccer are: Ankle sprains, groin pulls, hamstring strains, shin splints, and knee injuries.

Injuries will occur, no matter the sport. The type of injury to occur depends on the gender of the player. Often, when players become injured, they are in denial about the repercussions of their injury and usually have a loss in confidence. Repercussions can tragically be career ending, long term or luckily short term. Understanding the injury and it’s impact on a player is important, however, knowing how to prevent the injury is more important.

Youth sports are a regular part of any parent's life, over time, the more talented kids emerge and are picked for travel teams or special training. Travel teams usually come with year long commitments forcing children to quit their other sports. Although when you think of a sport related injury you usually think of kids colliding, or falling and banging their head, although, more than 50% of sport related injuries are overuse injuries. Most overuse injuries occur when a young athlete focuses on one sport, playing it year round. This puts stress on the same muscle all year, instead of just for one season. An athlete that plays multiple sports exercises multiple muscles, giving other muscles a break. Without giving other muscles a break, the one muscle becomes tired and weak, and eventually snaps. Youth sports are a highlight of childhood, but the risk of injury has rapidly increased due to

Soccer, the most popular sport in the world, is called football in most countries. In America, “the world football refers to American football.” (Football vs Soccer, n.d). These two sports share the same goal: score more goals than your opponents to win the game. In soccer, “there is a net at each end of the field where the object of the game is to score a point by kicking the ball into your opponents’ goal” (Football vs Soccer, n.d). Football also shares this concept by having tow area on opposite sides of the field where one can score points by carrying the ball beyond the opponents’ goal line. Also, soccer and football both have eleven players on the field at a time, and both have the concept of having offense and defense. American football and soccer are mostly different, with some notable similarities. (Football vs Soccer, n.d)

Our study proposes to examine the effects of a training program on high school female soccer athletes in regards to their risk for an anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) tear using surrogate markers. A randomized control trial will be employed on eligible female soccer athletes that are age fourteen to eighteen taken from two different schools. We will be using a convenience sample with one school being the control group and the other being the experimental group having a total of 56 participants after accounting for attrition. A seven question screener survey was created for this experiment to help screen out possible confounders. Data will be gathered by careful measuring of the exercises performed. More specifically, weight increase, range of motion increase, and repetitions performed. A proportion test will be used to analyze the data. The purpose of this study is to determine if, at the high school level, a specialized exercise program will help decrease the chance of ACL tears through strengthening the hamstrings.

Soccer (Football) is the most popular and fastest growing sport in the world. Over 240 million people play it regularly around the world. However, most people only get to view one side of soccer in their lifetime. They never get a glimpse of it in any other setting. For many people soccer is a very competitive organized sport. For others it is an everyday, fun activity. In some countries, soccer is their life, while in others it is just a sport. For those of you that don’t know, soccer is a sport where the objective is to score goals by kicking a ball into the other teams goal. It is a mix of offense and defense, with very fast paced action. You are allowed to use any body part except your hands and elbows. Soccers first appearance traces back to 3000 years ago in ancient China. But, the first modern version of soccer originates from Victorian England. Since then, soccer has spread around the world to the point where almost every country plays some form of it. I am going to address how it is different around the world and the reasons for this.

Football is the most popular sport in the world.1 Playing football can improve musculoskeletal, metabolic, and cardiovascular functions.2 However, football is one of the sports that have the highest risk of ACL injury.3,4 The incidence rates of ACL injury in soccer range 0.15% - 3.67% per person per year and 0.07 - 1.08 per 1000 sports exposures across various age and competition levels.5,6 The majority of ACL injuries occur without external contact to the knee joint.4,8,15

By football being a full contact sport, and players always tacking each other it makes it hard on the body (Henderson 1). Bones lose density and strength. (Hobson 1) Ligaments and tendons tend to stiffen, lose circulation, and become more vulnerable. (3) Cartilage becomes stressed and susceptible to tearing.(4).It is every player’s dream is trying to make it to the next level and being the best at what they do. As players work hard to sharpen their game, their body is put through a series of injuries including tears, breaks, and sprains.

Throughout the sports world today, injuries a very common. An injury is “as any significant condition limiting function that caused an athlete to seek medical care by a trainer or physician, caused a practice or match to be discontinued, and resulted in lost time from athletic participation for 1 or more days” (Pasque). It is not uncommon to hear of a player pulling a muscle, tearing their ACL, getting a concussion, etc. Certain sports have a higher probability of getting certain injuries than others. For example, in football, wrestling and hockey, “injury to the brachial plexus, or brachial plexopathy, is one of the most common upper extremity injuries” (Kuzman). Football and wrestling are two high impact sports that have high risk for both

This paper focuses on the prevention and treatment of injuries in basketball. This paper explores the basic concepts of preventing injuries and the different methods to treat injuries that occur as a result of playing basketball. There are a variety of preventive measures to limit injuries at recreational, collegiate and professional levels of playing basketball. This paper will elaborate on specific approaches to injury prevention for each circumstance. Depending on the duration and intensity of play many contributing factors play a role in the prescribed treatment of basketball injuries. This paper will examine the different types of treatment available and the major factors that are considered based on case by case basis. Basketball is an enjoyable sport with the risk of minor and major injury. This paper will give insight into those injuries and remedies to treat and prevent them.