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does anyone know if there is any research or information on football boots and associated injuries.any help or guidance would be greatly appreciated.

cheers Rob

first thread I have done by the way

 

Have you thought to talk to any of the professional football teams.
l am sure the would have some great stats on player injuries, whether they are going to share them with you is the big question?

 

Rob

There is a lot of published works on soccer related injuries from America. The Soccer Moms keep them busy over there. However independent information on injuries due to footwear is not so easy to locate since by implication it would be detrimental to manufacturers. There was a flurry of interest with cleats and cleat related injuries and a year or so back much speculation on stress related injuries due to poor footwear but little else. My chum Ian North has done quite a bit of research into the subject and will no doubt chip in.

Cheers
toeslayer

 

As Cameron alluded to, there is plenty on plantar pressures, boot design and "implication" to stress injury development, however prospective studies are lacking.

Queen RM, Charnock BL, Garrett Jr WE, Hardaker WM, Sims EL, Moorman Iii CT. A comparison of cleat types during two soccer specific tasks on FieldTurf. British Medical Journal. 2007

Cheers,
IN

 

also check out this article in this thread. It´s about the sprinters foot but in the last part of the paper it goes on to discuss lever arms of spiked shoes, this would also be the same for football boots.

http//www.podiatry-arena.com/podiatry-forum/showthread.php?t=38588

 

Much appreciated if you come across any more info that would be great.
cheers Rob

 

http://w4.ub.uni-konstanz.de/cpa/article/viewFile/2700/2542
http://bjsm.bmj.com/cgi/content/abstract/37/2/170
http://ajsm.highwire.org/content/35/9/1528.abstract
http://www.isss.de/publications/ArtificialTurf/Vachon Friction.pdf

Also google: football boot kinematics

 

cheers simon