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Original articles

• Fewer ligament injuries but no preventive effect on muscle injuries and severe injuries: an 11-year follow-up of the UEFA Champions League injury study (29 June, 2013) Free

  Jan Ekstrand, Martin Hägglund, Karolina Kristenson, Henrik Magnusson, Markus Waldén
• Injuries affect team performance negatively in professional football: an 11-year follow-up of the UEFA Champions League injury study (3 May, 2013) Free

  Martin Hägglund, Markus Waldén, Henrik Magnusson, Karolina Kristenson, Håkan Bengtsson, Jan Ekstrand
• Muscle injury rates in professional football increase with fixture congestion: an 11-year follow-up of the UEFA Champions League injury study (11 July, 2013)

  Håkan Bengtsson, Jan Ekstrand, Martin Hägglund
• Time-trends and circumstances surrounding ankle injuries in men's professional football: an 11-year follow-up of the UEFA Champions League injury study (27 June, 2013)

  Markus Waldén, Martin Hägglund, Jan Ekstrand
• Fifth metatarsal fractures among male professional footballers: a potential career-ending disease (6 March, 2013)

  Jan Ekstrand, C Niek van Dijk
• The UEFA injury study: 11-year data concerning 346 MCL injuries and time to return to play (26 April, 2013)

  Matilda Lundblad, Markus Waldén, Henrik Magnusson, Jón Karlsson, Jan Ekstrand
• Recurrence of Achilles tendon injuries in elite male football players is more common after early return to play: an 11-year follow-up of the UEFA Champions League injury study (14 June, 2013)

  Mariann Gajhede-Knudsen, Jan Ekstrand, Henrik Magnusson, Nicola Maffulli
• Return to play after thigh muscle injury in elite football players: implementation and validation of the Munich muscle injury classification (5 May, 2013)

  Jan Ekstrand, Carl Askling, Henrik Magnusson, Kai Mithoefer
• The Nordic Football Injury Audit: higher injury rates for professional football clubs with third-generation artificial turf at their home venue (12 June, 2013)

  Karolina Kristenson, John Bjørneboe, Markus Waldén, Thor Einar Andersen, Jan Ekstrand, Martin Hägglund
• Injury surveillance in the World Football Tournaments 1998–2012 (30 April, 2013)

  Astrid Junge, Jiri Dvorak
• The effect of field condition and shoe type on lower extremity injuries in American Football (12 June, 2013)

  Jaclyn Nicole Iacovelli, Jingzhen Yang, Geb Thomas, Hongqian Wu, Trisha Schiltz, Danny T Foster
• High adherence to a neuromuscular injury prevention programme (FIFA 11+) improves functional balance and reduces injury risk in Canadian youth female football players: a cluster randomised trial (4 April, 2013)

  Kathrin Steffen, Carolyn A Emery, Maria Romiti, Jian Kang, Mario Bizzini, Jiri Dvorak, Caroline F Finch, Willem H Meeuwisse