- Title
- Sprinting and hamstring strain injury : beliefs and practices of professional physical performance coaches in Australian football
- Creator
- Freeman, Brock; Talpey, Scott; James, Lachlan; Young, Warren
- Date
- 2021
- Type
- Text; Journal article
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/176344
- Identifier
- vital:15105
- Identifier
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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ptsp.2020.12.007
- Identifier
- ISBN:1466-853X (ISSN)
- Abstract
- Objectives: The purpose of this study was to establish beliefs and practices of physical performance coaches regarding sprinting and Hamstring Strain Injury (HSI) in Australian Rules football. Designs: Delphi-validated questionnaire. Setting: Online. Participants: Eighteen high-performance managers of the Australian Football League. Main outcome measures: Descriptive statistics were collected to establish experience; central themes were established for the analyses of the beliefs and practices. Results: Nine (50%) physical performance coaches responded to an invitation to complete the questionnaire. Participants held an undergraduate degree and had 9.2 ± 4.3 years of experience. Accelerations (n = 9), maximum speed sprints (n = 9) and running with hip flexion (n = 7) were the most common activities associated with HSI. Coaches believed sprinting, eccentric strength training and proper periodisation were effective strategies to reduce HSI risk. There's a disparity between beliefs and practices when using GPS to monitor sprinting, however, all coaches reported regular exposure to sprint training across both pre and in-season. Overstriding (n = 9) and pelvic instability (n = 6) were identified as key flaws in running mechanics. Conclusions: This information can be used to improve training strategies, whilst these findings indicate further investigations into sprint training and running mechanics for HSI risk reduction. © 2020 Elsevier Ltd
- Publisher
- Churchill Livingstone
- Relation
- Physical Therapy in Sport Vol. 48, no. (2021), p. 12-19
- Rights
- All metadata describing materials held in, or linked to, the repository is freely available under a CC0 licence
- Rights
- Copyright © 2020 Elsevier Ltd.
- Subject
- 1103 Clinical Sciences; 1106 Human Movement and Sports Science; Australian football; Coaching; Hamstring; High-speed running; Injury prevention
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