Hip adduction and abduction strength in different test positions and their relationship to previous groin injuries in women footballers

Ribič, Ažbe (author), Hadžić, Vedran (author), Spudić, Darjan (author)

Hip strength has been shown to influence the incidence of injury in women’s football. The first objective of our study was to examine the differences in isometric strength of the adductors and abductors between two test positions (0° vs. 45° hip angle). Our second objective was to verify the sensitivity of the two test positions in discriminating between women footballers with and without a history of groin pain in the last twelve months. One hundred and one elite players from the Slovenian women’s football league were tested. The isometric strength of the adductors, abductors, and the ratio between hip abductor and adductor strength in two different test positions were assessed. We found statistically significant differences (p < 0.05; effect size range 0.12–0.13) between the two test positions in hip adduction, abduction strength, and abductor/adductor strength ratio. The ROC analysis showed that only the abductor/adductor strength ratio at the 0° hip angle position can differentiate between players with and without a history of groin pain, with an optimal cut-off point of ≤ 1.01 (p < 0.05; AUC = 0.734). The results should help practitioners plan hip strength training for returning to sport or preventing groin pain among women football players.

• Language: English
• Keywords: sport, soccer, football, female, prevention, adduction/abduction ratio, injuries
• Work type: Article
• Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article
• Organization: FŠ - Faculty of Sport
• Publication status: Published
• Publication version: Version of Record
• Year: 2024
• Number of pages: Str. 1055–1066
• Numbering: Vol. 32, no. 6
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-164605
• UDC: 796.332-055.2
• ISSN on article: 1543-8635
• DOI: 10.1080/15438627.2024.2368898
• COBISS.SI-ID: 200314883
• Publication date in RUL: 05.11.2024

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: Research in sports medicine
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis
• ISSN: 1543-8635
• COBISS.SI-ID: 521905177

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Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian
• Keywords: šport, nogomet, ženske, preprečevanje, poškodbe

Projects

• Funder: ARRS - Slovenian Research Agency
• Project number: P5-0147
• Name: Kineziologija monostrukturnih, polistrukturnih in konvencionalnih športov