Do Niggles Matter

Have a listen to a very interesting interview that Randall Cooper did with Dr Matt Whalan as part of Randall’s Journal Club series. This will of interest to any clinician that is involved with athletes. Matt has studied the self reporting of minor niggles and their significance in relation to the likelihood of these developing into an injury involving future loss of training time.

Matt’s paper was published in Science & Medicine in Football in 2020

Whalan M, Lovell R & Sampson J (2020) Do Niggles Matter? – Increased injury risk following physical complaints in football (soccer), Science and Medicine in Football, 4:3, 216-224