![]() ![]() At the same time, F-MARC conducted its first study on the prevention of football injuries showing 21% fewer injuries in the intervention compared with the control group. 19, 31 In 2000, Heidt et al 12 showed that the 42 female players who participated in the Frappier Acceleration Training Programme had less time-loss injuries than the control group. ![]() 30 For about 20 years, no other author published a research paper on the prevention of football injuries in general, and only a few studies investigated the prevention of recurrent ankle sprains 18, 21, 22 and/or severe knee injuries. The first scientific study on injury prevention in football was Jan Ekstrand's thesis in the 1980s. In 1994, Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) founded its Medical Assessment and Research Centre (F-MARC) in order to create and disseminate scientific knowledge on various medical topics in football, to reduce football injuries and to promote football as a health-enhancing leisure activity.Įighteen years later, this paper summarises the historical background, development, scientific evaluation and dissemination strategies of FIFA’s injury-prevention programmes (‘FIFA 11+’) in order to provide a model of how an international sports federation can make its sport safer.ĭevelopment of injury-prevention programmes 26, 27 However the effectiveness of countrywide campaigns to reduce the incidence of football injuries has been proven. ![]() 8–25 However, the implementation of injury-prevention programmes in the real world of sports represents a major challenge. There is extensive literature on the frequency and characteristics of football injuries, 3–7 and several scientific studies on injury-prevention programmes in amateur football players have been published. The medical treatment of football-related injuries could have a significant socioeconomic impact: for example, in Switzerland (with 7.9 million inhabitants), the healthcare costs for football injuries were nearly US$170 million in 2010. ![]() 1 Besides being a healthy leisure activity, football, as a contact team sport, has a certain risk of injury. This paper summarises 18 years of scientific and on-field work in injury prevention by an international sports federation (FIFA), from formulating the aim to make its sport safer to the worldwide dissemination of its injury-prevention programme in amateur football.įootball is played on an amateur or recreational level by almost 300 million people all over the world. Since then, FIFA has developed and evaluated its injury-prevention programmes ‘The 11’ and ‘FIFA 11+’ have demonstrated in several scientific studies how simple exercise-based programmes can decrease the incidence of injuries in amateur football players. In 1994, the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) established its Medical Assessment and Research Centre (F-MARC) with the aim ‘to prevent football injuries and to promote football as a health-enhancing leisure activity, improving social behaviour’. In the last decade, injury prevention has received a lot of attention in sports medicine, and recently international sports-governing bodies, such as the International Olympic Committee, declared the protection of the athletes’ health as one of their major objectives. ![]()
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