The Role of Anthropometry in Decision-Making for Injury Prevention Among Elite Flag Football Players
= 0.010, respectively). Specific cut-off points were defined by sex, such as hip circumference, established at 103 cm in the Anterior Cruciate Ligament (ACL) model for males, increasing the risk by 5 times. Anthropometric characteristics were related to injury incidence and could be used by sports science practitioners as an efficient decision-making tool to describe and analyse the static and dynamic components of FF players in injury prevention.
Authors
- Luis Felipe Talavera-Hernández (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5891-5057)
- Nidia Rodríguez-Sánchez (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3960-5704)
- José Miguel Martínez-Sanz
- Eleanor Louise Travis-Carr
- Martha Patricia Dergal-Irigoyen
- Luis Gerardo Vázquez-Villarreal
- Claudia Maceroni
Institutions
- University of Stirling (GB)
- University of Alicante (ES)
- Autonomous University of Chihuahua (MX)
- Australian Football League (AU)
- NIHR Leeds Musculoskeletal Biomedical Research Unit (GB)
- Shanghai Research Institute of Sports Science (CN)
- Centro Médico ABC (MX)
- Leeds Beckett University (GB)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Sports
- Published
- 2026-04-01
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.3390/sports14040140
- Primary Topic
- Sports injuries and prevention
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00