Performance Science
Applied performance science: testing, monitoring and improving athletic performance.
The Integrated Sports Science Model: Building a Multidisciplinary Performance Team
Explains how football performance departments integrate physiology, medicine and psychology through structural, conceptual and relational integration.
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Emerging Technologies in Football Rehabilitation: What’s Coming Next
Reviews rehabilitation technologies entering football, including electrical stimulation, virtual reality and light therapy, and weighs the evidence.
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The Science of Coaching Expertise: What Makes Coaches Effective?
Explains the research behind effective football coaching, covering feedback timing, bandwidth feedback and the constraints-led approach to skill learning.
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NSAIDs in Football: When Pain Relief Becomes a Wellness Liability
Explains why routine preventive NSAID use in football is risky, covering blunted training adaptation, impaired tendon healing and kidney injury risk.
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Player Welfare and Duty of Care: The Ethical Obligations of Football Institutions
Examines the duty of care football clubs owe players, covering informed-consent conflicts in club medicine and safeguarding failures in youth academies.
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Evidence-Based Practice in Football Medicine and Science: Principles and Pitfalls
Explains the evidence hierarchy behind sports-medicine decisions and the study limits, publication bias and sponsorship bias practitioners must weigh.
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Sports Pharmacology: Legal Performance Enhancement at the Evidence Frontier
Reviews beta-alanine, sodium bicarbonate, dietary nitrates and ketone esters: how each works, where it helps football performance, and the limits of the…
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Articular Cartilage Biology and OA Prevention: The Long Game in Football Medicine
Explains why articular cartilage cannot self-repair, how football loading and injury speed its breakdown toward osteoarthritis, and prevention.
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Genetics of Injury Susceptibility: Can DNA Predict Who Gets Injured?
Examines whether gene variants like COL5A1 affecting connective tissue can predict injury risk, and how far this research is from clinical use.
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Long-Term Health of Former Footballers: What Happens After the Career Ends
Explores the long-term health paradox of former footballers, who gain cardiovascular protection but face higher joint and neurological risks.
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