%0 Journal Article %T Recovery During a Congested Schedule and Injury in Professional Football. %+ Unité de Recherche Pluridisciplinaire Sport, Santé, Société (URePSSS) - ULR 7369 - ULR 4488 (URePSSS) %+ Energie et Systèmes Electromécaniques (LABISEN-ESE) %+ Edinburgh Napier University %+ Adaptations Physiologiques à l'Exercice et Réadaptation à l'effort - UR UPJV 3300 (APERE) %+ Real Madrid Football Club %+ French Institute of Sport (INSEP), Laboratory Sport, Expertise and Performance (EA7370) (SEP (EA7370)) %A Delaval, Benoit %A Abaïdia, Abd-Elbasset %A Delecroix, Barthélémy %A Le Gall, Franck %A Mccall, Alan %A Ahmaidi, Said %A Dupont, Gregory %< avec comité de lecture %@ 1555-0265 %J International Journal of Sports Physiology and Performance %I Human Kinetics %V 17 %N 9 %P 1399--1406 %8 2022 %D 2022 %R 10.1123/ijspp.2021-0504 %K Football %K Soccer %K Adult %K Creatine Kinase %K Fatigue %K Humans %K injury prevention %K monitoring %K Myalgia %K risk factor %K soccer %K team sport %K Young Adult %K Etiology %K Physiology %Z Life Sciences [q-bio]/Human health and pathology %Z Humanities and Social Sciences/Sport/Sport physiologyJournal articles %X PURPOSE: To analyze the relationships between the recovery kinetics experienced by professional football players and noncontact injury. METHODS: A cohort of 46 professional football players (age 24.2 [4.7]~y) from the same team (French Ligue 1) was monitored each day between matches when the team played twice a week. The recovery monitoring procedure was implemented after 38 matches and included some questionnaires: duration of sleep, Hooper scale (quality of sleep, level of stress, fatigue, and muscle soreness), perceived recovery status scale, creatine kinase concentrations, a countermovement jump, and an isometric force test. Noncontact injuries were collected during these periods. RESULTS: Noncontact injuries were associated with perceived fatigue and muscle soreness 2 days (relative risk [RR] = 1.89 and 1.48, respectively) and 3 days following the matches (RR = 2.08 and 2.08, respectively). An increase of sleep quantity during the 2 nights following a match was significantly associated with a lower RR (RR = 0.65), as well as a lower decrement score on the isometric force test on each of the 3 days after the matches (RR = 0.97, RR = 0.99, and RR = 0.97, respectively). No other association was reported for the variables sleep quality, stress, perceived recovery, creatine kinase concentrations, countermovement jump, and noncontact injuries. CONCLUSION: During a congested schedule, implementing a recovery monitoring protocol including questionnaires about fatigue, muscle soreness, quantity of sleep, and a physical test of isometric force could help practitioners prevent injuries. %G English %L hal-03779210 %U https://u-picardie.hal.science/hal-03779210 %~ SHS %~ UNIV-ARTOIS %~ UNIV-PICARDIE %~ INSEP %~ UNIV-LILLE %~ LABISEN %~ LABISEN-ESE %~ U-PICARDIE %~ APERE %~ UREPSSS %~ TEST3-HALCNRS