Injuries among male and female football players:A guide shared by Sports physiotherapist?

Despite its collisional nature and high injury incidence rate, football union is a popular global sport. Males and females play the sport at professional, semi-professional and international levels.Although research exists to understand the incidence of injuries in male athletes,it is limited to the elite level among female cohorts.

It mostly includes cervical,lumbar, ankle,knee,foot,shoulder,elbow and wrist injuries.Therefore, understanding the gender-related differences in patterns of injury risk is vital to ensuring the correct preventative and management strategies in each group.

First Treatment of choice for injuries includes PRICE Method which means Prevention,Rest,Ice, Compression and Elevation.So,better to look for the injury first and it causes.