OUT NOW: Issue 47 – ‘football medicine & performance’
As the 2024/2025 season kicks off, medical and performance practitioners want to ensure that their athletes are in peak condition. This last edition for 2024 focuses on key topics to help ensure that medical and performance practitioners make use of evidence based practice.
In this edition, David Clancy discusses the principles and tools around energisers, detractors, energy mapping, building an energy calendar-and micro-interventions for energy, in the chaotic and hectic football environment.
Adam Johnson, physiotherapist at Everton FC, continues his interesting series on Ankle Syndesmosis injuries, this time focusing on the management of such injuries. Jack Philips from Liverpool FC explains the importance of maximising bone adaptation via exercise/nutrition, to help minimise skeletal damage accumulation. Another interesting topic in this edition is navigating football after pregnancy as Jenna Schulz discusses return to activity through to return to football in the postpartum athlete. Meanwhile, consultant chiropractor Nick Metcalfe details the role the lumbar spine and pelvis play in hamstring injuries.
From a football performance point of view, Benjamin Jerome and colleagues discuss how Ball in Play (BIP) time influences the physical metrics and the physical intensity of match play. On the other hand, Jermaine McCubbine, a strength and conditioning coach working with PSV Eindhoven first team explains the importance of introducing force plate technology in elite football. High speed running is another interesting topic discussed by Ronan Kavanagh and colleagues as a method to enhance performance and prevent injuries.
This will also mark the last edition for 2024. We are delighted to inform you that from 2025, the editorial will be moving to two editions a year which will both be available as hard copy and in digital format. This aims to ensure ongoing high quality editions whilst listening to the membership by bringing back the hard copy of the Football Medicine and Performance Editorial.
We hope that you have found this editorial useful and we would like to take this opportunity to thank you for your unwavering support and to wish you the best of luck for the season ahead.
