RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Developing a health surveillance strategy for professional footballers in compliance with UK health and safety legislation
JF British Journal of Sports Medicine
JO Br J Sports Med
FD BMJ Publishing Group Ltd and British Association of Sport and Exercise Medicine
SP 148
OP 149
DO 10.1136/bjsm.31.2.148
VO 31
IS 2
A1 Colin W Fuller
A1 Richard D Hawkins
YR 1997
UL http://bjsm.bmj.com/content/31/2/148.abstract
AB The need for health surveillance for professional footballers has been assessed against criteria specified in UK health and safety legislation. As footballers suffer from chronic injuries under normal playing conditions, professional football clubs have a requirement to implement health surveillance programmes to protect their players. A health surveillance programme, based on benchmarking a player's fitness and addressing the issues of pre-recruitment, pre-season, during-season, post-season, and rehabilitation assessment, is proposed.