Effectiveness of nordic exercises on the incidence of hamstring injuries in male professional and amateur soccer players aged 15-41 years. Systematic review
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https://doi.org/10.24310/riccafd.2022.v11i3.15338Keywords:
hamstring muscles, exercise, rehabilitation, injuries in athletes, soccerAbstract
Introduction: muscular injuries are the most common among soccer players, being hamstring injury the most frequent. Objective: The aim of this study was to analyze the existing evidence on the effects of Nordic exercises on the incidence of hamstring injuries in professional and amateur male soccer players between 15 and 41 years of age. Methods: A systematic review was carried out following the PRISMA guidelines recommendations, a search was carried out for articles in PubMed, BVS, Cochrane, Web OF Science and SCOPUS, in addition Google Scholar was consulted. The search was performed based on the PICO strategy with the following terms: hamstring muscles, exercise, rehabilitation, therapy, athletic injuries, soccer. Results: a total of 257 articles resulted from the search, 5 of which were included in this study. All studies showed positive effects of Nordic exercises for athletes. Conclusions: Nordic exercises reduced the incidence of hamstring injury in 4 of the studies analyzed, the percentage of compliance with the intervention sessions conditioned the quality of the effects while the moment of application of the intervention (pre- or post-training) had no influence.
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