Prevention of posterior chain injuries in soccer - Álvaro de Ana Carrillo - Bog

Knowing the importance of soccer, being the most practiced and popular sport today, the main objective of this systematic review was to analyze the relationship between strength work with respect to posterior chain injuries in this sport and, as a secondary objective, to know the differences in the occurrence of injuries between teams that include preventive work and those that do not. The following databases were used to select articles: MEDLINE complete, SPORTDiscus and Rehabilitation & Sports Medicine Source. After the analysis of the results collected in the different articles obtained from the aforementioned databases, it was concluded that strength work is effective for the prevention of posterior chain injuries. In addition, the importance of this strength work in today's soccer.