ORIGINAL RESEARCH ARTICLE | Jan. 9, 2025
Enhancing Performance and Preventing Injuries in Cricketers: The Role of Functional Movement Screening
Dr. B. Prabakar
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Functional Movement Screening (FMS) has emerged as a vital tool in sports science for identifying movement inefficiencies, preventing injuries, and enhancing athletic performance. In cricket, a sport characterized by its unique combination of asymmetrical movements, repetitive actions, and high physical demands, FMS offers significant potential to optimize player outcomes. This paper investigates the application of FMS in cricket, focusing on its role in detecting biomechanical dysfunctions, designing corrective interventions, and monitoring performance improvements over time. By examining a cohort of state-level cricketers, the study highlights the effectiveness of FMS in reducing injury incidence, improving movement efficiency, and enhancing key performance metrics such as agility and accuracy. The findings underscore the importance of integrating FMS into cricket training programs and emphasize the need for a multidisciplinary approach involving coaches, physiotherapists, and sports scientists. Despite challenges in implementation, such as resource limitations and the need for specialized training, FMS proves to be a transformative tool in advancing the health and performance of cricketers. Future research directions include the establishment of sport-specific benchmarks, the integration of wearable technology for real-time assessments, and longitudinal studies to explore sustained benefits.
In Africa, studies devoted to violence against football referees are rare. This study aims to characterize threats and aggression against referees during football matches in Congo. The qualitative study, which took place in Brazzaville from February to April 2024, included 9 referees with international or federal certification. The semi-directed interviews conducted with these referees addressed the following points: the types of threats and aggression; their causes; refereeing decisions; sources of violence; the management of said threats and aggression. The results highlighted the predominance of verbal aggression, the perpetrators were more spectators and players. Refereeing decisions directly opposed to the opinions of players/coaches/spectators were the major sources of threats and aggression. The impact of socio-cultural and political capital on these behaviors was also noted. Self-control was the main strategy for managing these distressing situations. In short, the study highlighted the complexity of the phenomenon of aggression towards referees.
The purpose of this study is to analyze the effect of ABC Running on increasing speed in young athletes. This type of research uses a narrative review method. Literature search through databases such as PubMed, Scopus, WOS, Semantic Scholar and Google Scholar. Keywords such as ABC running OR speed enhancement OR athletic performance OR athletic basic coordination OR youth or young athletes. The criteria for articles are open access, scientific journals, in English or Indonesian, and published from 2019 to 2024. From the literature search, 6 articles were found that met the criteria for analysis. The results of this study are that ABC running is effective in increasing running speed in young athletes. In addition, a combination of exercises such as Running Mechanics and Ladder Drills, as well as visualization exercises were found to help improve athletes' technical skills. In conclusion, ABC running exercises are very useful in building a strong physical foundation, preventing injuries, and improving technical understanding for young athletes. This shows the importance of integrating ABC running training into young athletes' training programs to support success at higher levels. Therefore, it is recommended to continue and develop research and practice of ABC running training with various training models. Then a deeper analysis of the methodology such as developing training models, adding control variables, details on training programs and a large number of samples.