Return-to-play after a muscle injury in football

2^nd International Conference on Sports Medicine and Fitness

April 18-20, 2016 Dubai, UAE

Ruben Ferreira

Football Medicine�®, UAE
Al Jazira Sports Club, UAE

Posters & Accepted Abstracts: J Sports Med Doping Stud

Abstract :

Muscle injuries are still the number one problem in football and it represents the most incident injury with a significant impact on players� absence for training and matches. Besides being a usual injury in a sports set-up, it only started to be conveniently studied in the last decade. Since then, a significant amount of muscle injuries� risk factors have been unveiled, leading to the changes in the focus and modalities of its treatment. Nowadays, muscle injuries� rehabilitation is massively supported with exercise modalities, considering the benefits of it on the healing process and conditioning of the injured muscle and athlete as well. However, a deep knowledge on the biological processes of the muscle healing is needed to assure a fast rehabilitation without recurrence. This presentation intends to focus on the state-of-the-art knowledge about muscle injuries management, since the acute phase until the return-to-play stage, highlighting the clinical reasoning regarding the progression criteria during muscle injuries rehabilitation.

Biography :

Email: rubenferreira88@gmail.com