Player Monitoring in Professional Soccer: Spikes in Acute:Chronic Workload Are Dissociated From Injury Occurrence

• Main Authors: Luis Suarez-Arrones (Author), Borja De Alba (Author), Mareike Röll (Author), Ignacio Torreno (Author), Sarah Strütt (Author), Kathrin Freyler (Author), Ramona Ritzmann (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Frontiers Media S.A., 2020-07-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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This study aimed to determine whether spikes in acute:chronic workload ratio (ACWR) are associated with injury incidence, and to examine the differences in external load due to greater or lesser exposure to matches and the long-term effects of the load during a chronic seasonal period. Fifteen profe...