Effects of structural components of artificial turf on the transmission of impacts in football players
Encarnación-Martínez A, García-Gallart A, Gallardo AM, Sánchez-Sáez JA, Sánchez-Sánchez J
Sports biomechanics · 11 citations
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- Controlled clinical trial (classified by our AI screen)
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- Mechanisms only
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- Catholic University of Murcia
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Publication
- Published
- 2017-02-24 · Sports Biomech · vol. 17 · issue 2 · pp. 251–260
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis
- Cited
- 15 citations · more than 79% of similar papers · 1.5× the field average
- References
- 28 works
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- Paywalled
- Research areas
- Sports injuries and prevention · Sports Performance and Training · Lower Extremity Biomechanics and Pathologies
- Keywords
- Attenuation, Acceleration, Environmental science, Materials science, Physics, Optics
- MeSH
- head, tibia, humans, poaceae, risk factors, running, acceleration, football, floors and floorcoverings, male, biomechanical phenomena
5 authors
From ES
- Alberto Encarnación‐Martínez · correspondingUniversidad Católica de Murcia; Universidad de Murcia
- Antonio García-GallartUniversidad Católica de Murcia; Universidad de Murcia
- Ana María Gallardo GuerreroUniversidad Católica de Murcia; Universidad de Murcia
- Juan Antonio Sánchez-SáezUniversidad Católica de Murcia; Universidad de Murcia
- Javier Sánchez‐SánchezUniversidad Católica de Murcia; Universidad de Murcia
Abstract
The third generation of artificial turf systems (ATS) has matched the mechanical behaviour of natural grass, but today a high heterogeneity at structural level and mechanical behaviour in the new ATS also exists. The objective was to analyse the effect of the structural components of ATS football pitches and running speed on the capacity of impact attenuation. A total of 12 athletes were evaluated at three speed conditions (3.33 m/s, 4 m/s and maximum speed) on four different ATS, classifying them by their components (length of fibre, type of in-fill and sub-base). Impact attenuation was significantly higher in ATS3, characterised by longer fibre compared to other ATS with less fibre length. The ATS4 with a higher length fibre and built on compacted granular material proportioned significantly lower values in the maximum peaks of tibia acceleration. Finally, as speed increases, the peak tibia impacts were significantly higher. Longer fibre length and the capacity to accommodate a higher quantity of infill facilitate higher impact attenuation. Equally, a compacted granular sub-base is related to lower magnitude of maximum tibia peaks. Finally, the magnitude of the tibia acceleration peaks is dependent of running speed for all ATS analysed, being higher as speed increases.
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