Influence of the COVID-19 lockdown and restart on the injury incidence and injury burden in men`s professional football leagues in 2020: The UEFA elite club injury study
Key Points
- There were no increased match injury incidence and match injury burden following the restart of the men`s professional football leagues in 2020 compared with other time periods of 2020 and the corresponding periods in the 2015-2019 seasons.
- There were an increased training injury incidence and training injury burden immediately during the lockdown in 2020 and they remained high following the restart and the rest of the 2019/20 season.
- The injury patterns during the first months of the new 2020/21 season were similar between teams that cancelled their 2019/20 season following the lockdown in March 2020 and teams that restarted their season in May/June 2020.
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| Notations: | sport games biological and medical sciences |
| Tagging: | COVID-19 Lockdown |
| Published in: | Sports Medicine - Open |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
2022
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1186/s40798-022-00457-4 |
| Volume: | 8 |
| Issue: | 67 |
| Pages: | 1-10 |
| Document types: | article |
| Level: | advanced |