Document Type
Article
Rights
Available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike 4.0 International Licence
Disciplines
3. MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES, Sport and fitness sciences
Abstract
Forty-eight professional soccer players (mean ± SD age of 25.3 ± 3.1 yr) from two elite European teams were involved within a one season study. Players completed a test of intermittent-aerobic capacity (Yo-YoIR1) to assess player’s injury risk in relation to intermittent aerobic capacity. Weekly workload measures and time loss injuries were recorded during the entire period. Rolling weekly sums and week-to-week changes in workload were measured, allowing for the calculation of the acute:chronic workload ratio, which was calculated by dividing the acute (1-weekly) and chronic (4-weekly) workloads. All derived workload measures were modelled against injury data using logistic regression. Odds ratios (OR) were reported against a reference group.
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsams.2016.10.014
Recommended Citation
Malone, S., Owen, A. (2016). The Acute:Chonic Workload Ratio In Relation To Injury Risk In Professional Soccer. Journal of Medicine and Science in Sport, vol. 20, no. 6, pg. 561. doi:10.1016/j.jsams.2016.10.014