Footwear and injury prevention in elite American football

Kent, Richard W.

Affiliations

¹University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA

Keywords

Keywords: musculoskeletal injury; American football; sports biomechanics; cleated shoe; artificial turf

Links

DOI: 10.1080/19424280.2019.1606344

History

Received: 2019-03-26

Accepted: 2019-03-31

Cited Works (10)

Year	Entry
2015	Lievers WB, Adamic PF. Incidence and severity of foot and ankle injuries in men’s collegiate American football. Orthop J Sports Med. 2015;3(5):2325967115581593.
2015	Kent R, Forman JL, Lessley D, Crandall J. The mechanics of American football cleats on natural grass and infill-type artificial playing surfaces with loads relevant to elite athletes. Sports Biomech. 2015;14(2):246-257.
2012	Hershman EB, Anderson R, Bergfeld JA, Bradley JP, Coughlin MJ, Johnson RJ, Spindler KP, Wojtys E, Powell JW. An analysis of specific lower extremity injury rates on grass and FieldTrf playing surfaces in National Football League games: 2000-2009 seasons. Am J Sports Med. October 2012;40(10):2200-2205.
2017	Jastifer J, Kent R, Crandall J, Sherwood C, Lessley D, McCullough KA, Coughlin MJ, Anderson RB. The athletic shoe in football: apparel or protective equipment? Sports Health. March–April 2017;9(2):126-131.
2019	Mack CD, Hershman EB, Anderson RB, Coughlin MJ, McNitt AS, Sendor RR, Kent RW. Higher rates of lower extremity injury on synthetic turf compared with natural turf among National Football League athletes: epidemiologic confirmation of a biomechanical hypothesis. Am J Sports Med. January 2019;47(1):189-196.
2014	Kent RW, Lievers WB, Riley PO, Frimenko RE, Crandall JR. Etiology and biomechanics of tarsometatarsal injuries in professional football players: a video analysis. Orthop J Sports Med. March 2014;2(3):2325967114525347.
2015	Crandall J, Frederick EC, Kent R, Lessley D, Sherwood C. Apparatus for measuring the forefoot bending stiffness of cleated American football shoes. Footwear Sci. 2015;7(suppl 1):S23-S25.
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