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Leisure Services Organization Soccer Lessons 1. Title: Muscle flexibility as a risk factor for developing injuries in male professional soccer players. Summary Muscular tightness is frequently put forward as a high risk factor for the development of a muscle injury. What is being studied here is the fact that, increased muscle tightness makes a soccer player more at risk to musculoskeletal injuries. To prove their point many did a study on a large number of male soccer players to see if their hypothesis is in fact true or not. Results: Players with a hamstring (N = 31) or quadriceps (N = 13) muscle injury were found to have significantly lower flexibility in these muscles before their injury compared with the uninjured group. No significant differences in muscle flexibility were found between players who sustained an adductor muscle injury or a calf muscle injury and the uninjured group. From this we can conclude that soccer players with an increased tightness in the hamstring or quadriceps muscles have a dramatically higher risk in getting a musculoskeletal injury.
Approximate Word count = 624
Approximate Pages = 2.5
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