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Muscle injury rates in professional football increase with fixture congestion: an 11-year follow-up of the UEFA Champions League injury study

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  • Håkan Bengtsson Football Research Group, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Jan Ekstrand Football Research Group, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden UEFA Medical Committee, Nyon, Switzerland Division of Community Medicine, Department of Medical and Health Sciences, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Martin Hägglund Football Research Group, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden Division of Physiotherapy, Department of Medical and Health Sciences, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  1. Correspondence to Håkan Bengtsson, Football Research Group, Linköping University, Stenbrötsgatan 33 582 47, Linköping SE-581 83, Sweden; Info.frg{at}telia.com/hakbe194{at}student.liu.se
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Bengtsson H, Ekstrand J, Hägglund M
Muscle injury rates in professional football increase with fixture congestion: an 11-year follow-up of the UEFA Champions League injury study
British Journal of Sports Medicine 2013;47:743-747.

Publication history

  • Accepted June 13, 2013
  • First published July 11, 2013.
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October 11, 2022

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