Relationship between football-specific training characteristics and tibial bone adaptation in male academy football players

Varley, I ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3607-8921, Sale, C, Greeves, JP, Morris, JG ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6508-7897, Sunderland, C ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7484-1345 and Saward, C ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9363-3410, 2023. Relationship between football-specific training characteristics and tibial bone adaptation in male academy football players. Sports, 11 (4): 86. ISSN 2075-4663

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Abstract

We examined the relationship between football-specific training and changes in bone structural properties across a 12-week period in 15 male football players aged 16 years (Mean ± 1 SD = 16.6 ± 0.3 years) that belonged to a professional football academy. Tibial scans were performed at 4%, 14% and 38% sites using peripheral quantitative computed tomography immediately before and 12 weeks after increased football-specific training. Training was analysed using GPS to quantify peak speed, average speed, total distance and high-speed distance. Analyses were conducted with bias-corrected and accelerated bootstrapped 95% confidence intervals (BCa 95% CI). There were increases in bone mass at the 4% (mean ∆ = 0.15 g, BCa 95% CI = 0.07, 0.26 g, g = 0.72), 14% (mean ∆ = 0.04 g, BCa 95% CI = 0.02, 0.06 g, g = 1.20), and 38% sites (mean ∆ = 0.03 g, BCa 95% CI = 0.01, 0.05 g, g = 0.61). There were increases in trabecular density (4%), (mean ∆ = 3.57 mg·cm −3 , BCa 95% CI = 0.38, 7.05 mg·cm −3 , g = 0.53), cortical dentsity (14%) (mean ∆ = 5.08 mg·cm −3 , BCa 95% CI = 0.19, 9.92 mg·cm −3 , g = 0.49), and cortical density (38%) (mean ∆ = 6.32 mg·cm −3 , BCa 95% CI = 4.31, 8.90 mg·cm −3 , g = 1.22). Polar stress strain index (mean ∆ = 50.56 mm 3 , BCa 95% CI = 10.52, 109.95 mm 3 , g = 0.41), cortical area (mean ∆ = 2.12 mm 2 , BCa 95% CI = 0.09, 4.37 mm 2 , g = 0.48) and thickness (mean ∆ = 0.06 mm, BCa 95% CI = 0.01, 0.13 mm, g = 0.45) increased at the 38% site. Correlations revealed positive relationships between total distance and increased cortical density (38%) (r = 0.39, BCa 95% CI = 0.02, 0.66), and between peak speed and increased trabecular density (4%) (r = 0.43, BCa 95% CI = 0.03, 0.73). There were negative correlations between total (r = −0.21, BCa 95% CI = −0.65, −0.12) and high-speed distance (r = −0.29, BCa 95% CI = −0.57, −0.24) with increased polar stress strain index (38%). Results suggest that despite football training relating to increases in bone characteristics in male academy footballers, the specific training variables promoting adaptation over a 12-week period may vary. Further studies conducted over a longer period are required to fully elucidate the time-course of how certain football-specific training characteristics influence bone structural properties.

Item Type:	Journal article
Publication Title:	Sports
Creators:	Varley, I., Sale, C., Greeves, J.P., Morris, J.G., Sunderland, C. and Saward, C.
Publisher:	MDPI
Date:	19 April 2023
Volume:	11
Number:	4
ISSN:	2075-4663
Identifiers:	Number Type 10.3390/sports11040086 DOI 1752497 Other
Rights:	© 2023 by the authors This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https:// creativecommons.org/licenses/by/ 4.0/). sports Article
Divisions:	Schools > School of Science and Technology
Record created by:	Jeremy Silvester
Date Added:	21 Apr 2023 09:51
Last Modified:	21 Apr 2023 09:51
URI:	https://irep.ntu.ac.uk/id/eprint/48797

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