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Protect Yourself from Injury
Friday, March 18, 2011 at 7:25PM | Rob Satchell Weekly neuromuscular training could reduce your chance of picking up a leg injury during floorball.
Finnish researchers determined that professional female floorball players who undertook a weekly neuromuscular training program reduced their risk of leg injury by 66%. The injury rate amongst players who had undertaken regular neuromuscular training in addition to usual training was just 0.65 injuries per 1000 hours of playing and practice time, compared to 2.08 per 100 hours in players who had continued to undertake training as usual. Both of these injury rates are already quite low in comparison to those reported in other contact sports.
The study involved providing 457 players from 28 teams with a simple routine of floorball specific exercises including plyometric jumps, squats, stretching, balance and running exercises. This exercise schedule has also been examined by the same research group, during another study aimed at examining the effect of a neuromuscular warm-up (reported in the previous blog entry).
So, what is the take home message? Introduce a few extra exercises into your weekly floorball training program and safeguard yourself from leg injury.
Return here for the next blog entry where we reveal the exact details of this program and take a look at the most common floorball injuries.
Rob Satchell
Physiotherapist
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