There is a substantial body of work that has attempted to describe the mechanisms and relative contributions of central and peripheral factors to neuromuscular fatigue in contact sports. Researches have utilized EMG, MMG and functional movements such as a CMJ to assess the impact of athletic performance on neuromuscular status. Despite this, little work has investigated the impact of elite level team sport on a wide range of reliable CMJ jump variables in an attempt to determine their expected pattern of response or their suitability for both acute and longer term monitoring of neuromuscular fatigue. The high intensity, intermittent nature of contact sports match-play that includes frequent maximal and sub-maximal SSC activity and blunt force trauma is expected to cause considerable acute metabolic/ peripheral fatigue in conjunction with prolonged central fatigue during the post-match recovery period. Accordingly, analysis of neuromuscular fatigue in contact sports players represents an interesting and important strategy to determine subsequent training loads, quantify decrement in the ability of players to tolerate training and establish the time course of recovery following match-play. High performance programmes offers a challenging environment to conduct testing procedures, where time efficiency, reliability, convenience and easiness of data interpretations are of the upmost importance. Focusing on the proprioceptive abilities appears as an innovative approach to neuromuscular fatigue monitoring and should be the object of further researches. (Conclusion)
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