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Football Injury Prevention

Football injuries and Chiropractors

As nerve-muscle-bone experts, chiropractors can play an important role in Hong Kong in terms of injury prevention in both amateur and professional athletics. Chiropractors frequently see these individuals as health care providers on-and-off the field. Football organizations across the world now recommend that teams collaborate with a qualified health professional to ensure the long term health of their players.  

Common football injuries

The most common football player injuries occur below the waist; hips, thigh, knee, ankles and feet. These injuries can take place during practices, games or even in the weight room.  The worst of the knee injuries would be to the anterior cruciate ligament or, ACL. ACL injuries typically occur when an athlete lands from a jump, makes a hard cut, or is hit by an opposing player. FIFA (Fédération Internationale de Football Association), world football’s governing body, recommends players go through an ACL injury prevention program. 
 
 
 
 

 

Football injury prevention

The program, FIFA 11+, is a 20 minute program that consisting of 15 exercises, broken into (1) running, (2) strength, plyometrics, and balance and (3) additional running components. FIFA11+ is one of many programs available that will address injury prevention to the lower body.
 
FIFA research has shown that teams who completed the FIFA11+ warm up had a SIGNIFICANT LOWER RISK OF INJURY than other teams that warmed up as usual. Teams that performed the exercises at least twice per week had 37% FEWER TRAINING INJURIES AND 29% FEWER MATCH INJURIES. SEVERE INJURIES WERE ALSO REDUCED BY ALMOST 50%.
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— Sample exercises from the FIFA11+ Program
 
Has your team or organization implemented this program?
 

In order to accomplish this, FIFA also recommended that teams should work with medical staff such as Chiropractors, to help implement the program and address the physical health of their players.

Speak with your Chiropractor or Coach regarding the implementation of the program or check out http://f-marc.com/11plus/home/ for more information regarding FIFA11+.
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Chiropractors and Athletic Performance

Athletes and Chiropractors

Many high-performance, competitive athletes and their coaches have found that a Chiropractor plays a significant role in managing acute injuries, maximizing performance and preventing injuries.

– “World’s Fastest Man”, Usain Bolt, receives treatment from his chiropractor

Chiropractors are doctors that are well equipped to help sports athletes perform at their very best. Chiropractors optimize the nerve-muscle-bone system. In an effort to reduce injuries and increase performance, individual athletes and many sports teams look toward Chiropractors to design custom tailored health programs.

Chiropractors have an excellent clinical toolbox used to effectively assess and treat the athlete. Two such tools are the Selective Functional Movement Assessment (SFMA) and Functional Range Release® (F.R.®).

SFMA

SFMA is designed to assess fundamental patterns of movement such as bending and squatting. The clinical assessment is done from the perspective of a movement pattern. The system identifies problems that may be seemingly unrelated to the main complaint, but contribute to overall physical health of the athlete.

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Movement Assessment

 

 

Functional Range Release® (F.R.®)

FR is an advanced system of soft-tissue treatment based in the principles of myofascial release, but with multiple improvements. This system expands on the basic tenets of myofascial-release treatments by simultaneously assessing, expanding, and strengthening the patient’s functional range of motion. F.R.® is currently being utilized in the USA’s top professional and college performance programs.

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– Houston Rocket’s centre, Dwight “Superman” Howard, being treated with F.R.®.
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– Functional Range Release® (F.R.®) is currently being used by the above medical staffs. The list of who utilizes this system is growing every year.

 

Chiropractors and Medical Doctors

Chiropractors are also able to cooperate with the members of your existing healthcare team and coaching staff to ensure they are maximizing the athletes’ full potential.