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Efficacy Of The Fifa 11+ Injury Prevention Program In Maine High School Soccer, Meg Lander
Efficacy Of The Fifa 11+ Injury Prevention Program In Maine High School Soccer, Meg Lander
Honors College
The purpose of this thesis was to assess the efficacy of the FIFA 11+ injury prevention program when used over the course of one soccer season in Maine high school athletics when compared to a standard warm-up approach. Every year, nearly two million injuries are sustained by high school athletes, and the FIFA 11+ program was developed to mitigate the risk of lower body injuries in soccer players. It has been shown to reduce the incidence of injury by one third or more in teenage and older athletes. Participants were randomly allocated into the FIFA 11+ group and the control …