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Specific criteria, metrics, thresholds, and staff dynamics during return-to-play decision-making following hamstring injury were not clear.
What are the return-to-play practices following hamstring injury among Premier League football teams?
What are the return-to-play practices following hamstring injury among Premier League football teams?
Premier League football teams generally follow research recommendations for return-to-play after hamstring injury, utilizing functional, clinical, and psychological criteria, though specific metrics vary.
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Supports multimodal RTP assessment in elite football; leaves open standardization of specific criteria and thresholds.
General research recommendations for RTP and the beliefs and practices of practitioners appear to match with, the majority of teams assessing functional, clinical and psychological criteria throughout a RTP continuum to inform decision-making which is also shared among key stakeholders. However, specific criteria, metrics and thresholds used, and the specific involvement, dynamics and interactions of staff during decision-making are not clear.
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Dunlop et al. (2019) studied this question.
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