Resumen de Villarreal cf injury prevention program: The use of footwear according to the type of field

Nuria Sánchez, Víctor González, Jorge Carlos Vivas, Enrique Lli, Adrián Beltrán, Adolfo Muñoz

• The design of sports football trainers has been evolving since the first ones in the midnineteenth century. The first trainers were heavy, without flexibility, and were designed with the function to properly kick a ball. As for the footwear now, the forces of rotation in artificial are slightly higher than in natural, so the football trainers with round block are safer than those of elongated block in relation to torsion injuries. Therefore, a good choice of the sole would reduce the injury index produced by this mechanism (Smeets et al., 2012). The shape and position of the cleats needs to optimize the stability of the foot and of the ankle joints so as to facilitate the grip on the playing surface during actions.

  Biomechanical studies have revealed a tendency to replace round studs with a greater number of thin and long elliptical studs (Hilgers & Walther, 2011).