Performance Science

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.

3 Sep 2026
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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.

2 Sep 2026
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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.

2 Sep 2026
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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.

2 Sep 2026
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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.

2 Sep 2026
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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.

2 Sep 2026
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Sports Pharmacology — Legal Performance Enhancement at the Evidence Frontier

Research-grade analysis: Sports Pharmacology — Legal Performance Enhancement at the Evidence Frontier. Understand the science behind football performance.

1 Sep 2026
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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.

1 Sep 2026
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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.

31 Aug 2026
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