Abstract:
Several sports have published consensus statements
on methods and reporting of epidemiological studies
concerning injuries and illnesses with football (soccer)
producing one of the first guidelines. This football-specific
consensus statement was published in 2006 and
required an update to align with scientific developments
in the field. The International Olympic Committee
(IOC) recently released a sports-generic
consensus
statement outlining methods for recording and reporting
epidemiological data on injury and illness in sport and
encouraged the development of sport-specific
extensions.
The Fédération Internationale de Football Association
Medical Scientific Advisory Board established a panel
of 16 football medicine and/or science experts, two
players and one coach. With a foundation in the IOC
consensus statement, the panel performed literature
reviews on each included subtopic and performed two
rounds of voting prior to and during a 2-day
consensus
meeting. The panel agreed on 40 of 75 pre-meeting
and 21 of 44 meeting voting statements, respectively.
The methodology and definitions presented in this
comprehensive football-specific
extension should ensure
more consistent study designs, data collection procedures
and use of nomenclature in future epidemiological
studies of football injuries and illnesses regardless of
setting. It should facilitate comparisons across studies
and pooling of data.
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS : ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS : We acknowledge the support of the FIFA Medical
Subdivision, especially Mrs Mary Lawless, for administrative tasks. We are also
grateful to Mr Steve McClaren, UK, for being the coach’s voice and to Ms Linda
Sällström, Finland and Mr Alfred Finnbogason, Iceland, for being the players’ voices.
We would also like to thank Dr John Orchard for his thoughts on the influence of the
body area separation on the OSIICS.