Sports Orthopaedics
Prevalance of hip joint injuries especially the hip impingment syndrome in elite badminton, football (soccer) field hockey players (mainly) based on the "fit to compete examination Current projects:
- Development, implementation and evaluation of a multifactorial injruy prevention programme for elite youth football (soccer)
- Head injuries in football (soccer)
- Database on injuries in German male professional football (soccer) (in cooperation with the football magazine Kicker ®)
Completed projects:
- Prevalance of hip joint injuries especially the hip impingment syndrome in elite badminton, football (soccer) field hockey players (mainly) based on the "fit to compete examination
- Development of a screening tool to predict injuries in football (soccer)
- Mulitcenter study on injury prevention in children’s football (soccer) (funded by FIFA®)
- Injury epidemiology in male veteran football (soccer ) players (funded by the German Football Association DFB and FIFA®)
- Injury prevention in male veteran football (soccer) players using „FIFA 11+“(funded by the German Football Association DFB and FIFA®)
- Injury prediction in male veteran football (soccer) players using the FMS® (funded by the German Football Association DFB and FIFA®)
- Effects of a shortened winter break on injury characteristics in German male professional football (soccer)
- Evaluation of the current status of German male veteran football (soccer) players. Preventive effects and cardiovascular and orthopaedic risk factors of football (soccer) (funded by the German Football Association DFB).
- Injury prediction in female football (soccer) players using the FMS®