Background Absolute numbers of head injuries in football (soccer) are considerable
because of its high popularity and the large number of players. In 2006 a rule was changed …

Introduction The coronavirus lockdown in 2020 resulted in a worldwide suspension of
professional sports. The first major professional football league to restart after the lockdown …

The present study aimed to investigate time trends of head injuries and their injury
mechanisms since a rule change as monitoring may help to identify causes of head injuries …

Introduction Many professional football players sustain at least one severe injury over the
course of their career. Because detailed epidemiological data on different severe injuries in …

Ruptures of the anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) typically occur in professional football and
epidemiological data about longitudinal injury development is needed. This practice-driven …

Background This study describes the implementation of a standardised, prospective injury
database covering the entire 1st male German football league (“Bundesliga”) based on …

To assess head impact incidents (HIIs) and to distinguish diagnosed head injuries from
other incidents, a video observation analysis of match HIIs was conducted in the German …

Objective: To identify risk situations promoting head injuries in professional male football
(soccer) and to investigate the impact of a rule change in 2006 punishing elbow-head …

Background Bayesian networks (BN) are directed acyclic graphs derived from empirical data
that describe the dependency and probability structure. It may facilitate understanding of …