Is Plantar Loading Altered During Repeated Sprints on Artificial Turf in International Football Players?
Girard O, Millet GP, Thomson A, Brocherie F
Journal of sports science & medicine · 3 citations
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- Controlled clinical trial (classified by our AI screen)
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- Health markers and function
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- Funding not disclosed
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- 2018-09-01 · J Sports Sci Med · vol. 17 · issue 3 · pp. 359–365
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- National Institutes of Health
- Cited
- 4 citations · more than 51% of similar papers · 0.2× the field average
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- 34 works
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- Open access (repository copy)
- Research areas
- Sports Performance and Training · Sports injuries and prevention · Lower Extremity Biomechanics and Pathologies
- Keywords
- Sprint, Football, Anaerobic exercise, Football players, Foot (prosody), Medicine, Plantar pressure, Mathematics, Physical therapy, Physical medicine and rehabilitation, Orthodontics, Physics, Pressure sensor, Geography
- MeSH
- foot, humans, fatigue, running, pressure, soccer, adult, male, athletic performance, young adult, athletes
4 authors
From AU, QA, CH, GB, FR
- Olivier GirardMurdoch University; Qatar Orthopaedic and Sports Medicine Hospital
- Grégoire Paul MilletUniversity of Lausanne
- Athol ThomsonUniversity of Ulster; Murdoch University
- Franck BrocherieInstitut National du Sport, de l'Expertise et de la Performance
Abstract
We compared fatigue-induced changes in plantar loading during the repeated anaerobic sprint test over two distinct distance intervals. Twelve international male football outfield players (Qatar Football Association) completed 6 × 35-m sprints (10 s of active recovery) on artificial turf with their football boots. Insole plantar pressure distribution was continuously recorded and values (whole foot and under 9 foot zones) subsequently averaged and compared over two distinct distance intervals (0-17.5 m vs. 17.5-35 m). Sprint times increased (p vs. 158 ± 19 cm2; -5.8 ± 9.1%; p = 0.032), maximum force (1910 ± 559 vs. 2211 ± 613 N; -16.9 ± 18.2%; p = 0.005) and mean pressure (154 ± 41 vs. 172 ± 37 kPa; -13.9 ± 19.0%; p = 0.033) for the whole foot were lower at 0-17.5 m vs. 17.5-35 m, irrespectively of sprint number. There were no main effects of sprint number or any significant interactions for any plantar variables of the whole foot. The distance interval × sprint number × foot region interaction on relative loads was not significant. Neither distance interval nor fatigue modified plantar pressure distribution patterns. Fatigue led to a decrement in sprint time but no significant change in plantar pressure distribution patterns across sprint repetitions.
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