Aspetar highlights sports medicine research

Ranked as one of the best medical institutions in sports medicine research, Aspetar has demonstrated its commitment to helping athletes achieve their full potential by publishing hundreds of peer reviewed articles.Aspetar staff members have published more than 1,000 peer reviewed articles, with an average of 135 research studies every year, since the Aspetar Research department was established in 2008.Aspetar's team of experts aim to assist in the protection of athlete health and wellbeing, whilst also helping to improve athletic performance when returning from an injury.The research activities on sports medicine are targeted to improve the quality of medical care for athletes.Various topics were covered by Aspetar experts, including best practices on return to play, to surgical advancements, injury epidemiology in professional football leagues, the impact of Covid-19 on football leagues, the impact of Covid-19 on athletes' behaviors and training habits worldwide, injury patterns in youth footballers, new technologies to assess core temperature in real time in athletes, football boots interactions with the ground, and many others.As one of the departments pilot programs, Athlete Screening Research undertakes pre-competition medical assessments in athletes in an attempt to identify medical conditions that may be detrimental to an athlete's general health and/or performance.Aspetar has medically screened over 18,000 athletes from all around the world and continuously analyses the data to identify specific interventions to safeguard athletes.Executive Director of Research and Scientific Support at Aspetar Prof.Marco Cardinale said: "Our research team is well recognised as a global leader in the field of Sports Medicine research, in line with Aspetartarget="_blank"'>