Presenting the #Drakefootballstudy kick-off event at Arsenal in October. ⚽️👨‍🔬👩🏼‍🔬

Looking for Top Tips to keep footballers healthy? 👩‍⚕️ ⚽️ @DrImtiazAhmad7 @thedrakefdn #Educatingplayers #DrakeFootballStudy

Health is complex within elite sport 👉🏻 Cohort of players - ages, turnover, affiliations 👉🏻 These players aren't Superhumans 👉🏻 Differing health beliefs 👉🏻 Football is a group individuals, cant manage as a whole group #drakefootballstudy

What are the 'side effects' of a career in football? - @seancarmody1 👉🏻 Early onset OA 👉🏻 Mental health disorders 👉🏻 Deconditioning/CVS risk 👉🏻 Medication abuse 👉🏻 Sequelae of conclusive events #drakefootballstudy

@LSerratosa asking how much exercise might be too much of a good thing? #drakefootballstudy

Data collection through 3️⃣ approaches: 1️⃣ Football-related medical assessment 2️⃣ Study-related medical assessment 3️⃣ Online testing #Drakefootballstudy @VGouttebarge

⚠️ NEW PODCAST OUT NOW 🎙 Professor Christa Janse van Rensburg (@ChristaJVR) talks to us about the best ways elite footballers can combat jet lag and travel fatigue ✈️ 🎧 Listen here: https://t.co/KrOMzZHmtY #WWC2023 #DrakeFootballStudy

The 'Academy player': a forgotten sub-population? @seancarmody1 #drakefootballstudy

Those who suffer an MSK injury are twice as likely to report mental health symptoms 🗣💭 And this is uniform across all elite sports, whether during or after careers, and whether a superstar or not ⚽️🎾🏈🏑🏀🏏⚾️⛸⛳🏉 @VGouttebarge #drakefootballstudy

@KerkhoffsG & I since year ago: Funding #DrakeFootballStudy @thedrakefdn @Pushbraces ✅ Team ✅ Design ✅ Ethics ✅ Kick-off symposium London with Marco van Basten & many others ✅ Start recruitment pro players ✅ Publication design in @BMJOpenSEM ✅ Next step: pushing in 2020 💪

AC Milan, Ajax and Netherlands great @MarcoVanBasten tells audience at #Drakefootballstudy kick-off event at Arsenal's stadium: "Every professional footballer needs 4 weeks between seasons to recover...in England, Russia, Australia. Everywhere." #AtTheLimit 🚨

"We had no objective medical data on players...Arsene Wenger said I want you to create a football university." 👨🏼‍🎓👩‍🎓⚽️ @docgaryod tells #Drakefootballstudy launch about how Arsenal has transformed its medical services.

📢 English professional footballers will join a ground-breaking study of player health thanks to @PFA support 🗓️#drakefootballstudy will be launched with a symposium at @Arsenal stadium on Oct. 16, 2019 👉🏼 https://t.co/fbH1HIoEQk

.@KNVB doctor Edwin Goedhart tells #DrakeFootballStudy kick-off event at Arsenal: "Concussion is not as common in football as in NFL, but we have to take care of it." 🚨

Attitude to risk is critical‼ Informed risk is key, this comes from knowing your player and creating an open culture @docgaryod @ArsenalSEMS #drakefootballstudy

Great to hear @seancarmody1 talk about the often under-appreciated topic of the retiring athlete Some more depth on the topic in the @BJSM_BMJ editorial https://t.co/icWTr6PKeB #Drakefootballstudy

Great #DrakeFootballStudy kick-off yesterday: “Health of professional #footballers before and after #retirement”. Great insights @MarcovanBasten @VGouttebarge @KerkhoffsG, EdwinGoedhart @KNVB and good to meet @elevchenko @spelersvakbond. Thnx to @VGouttebarge @FIFPro @thedrakefdn

@docgaryod Top tips for managing player health: ➡️ You can't predict/prevent injuries! ➡️ Optimise performance and thus health ➡️ Make educated decision with informed consent. #drakefootballstudy @ArsenalSEMS

Communication, communication, communication 🗣 Words matter & can impact how players deal with an injury You need to know your players and how they individually tick. @docgaryod @ArsenalSEMS #drakefootballstudy