FM 005 - 5th metatarsal stress fracture: a potential career-ending injury? - a talk with Prof. Dr. Niek van Dijk

How to implement sleep enhancing strategies in football? – a talk with Dr Craig Duncan
In this episode, we talked with world renewed sport scientist Dr Craig Duncan about the importance of sleep in high performance football. We covered the following subjects:
- Effects of sleep deprivation on performance and healing times on our injured players;
- Sleep quality and quantity for enhancing regeneration and recovery;
- Strategies to reduce the ever increasing travelling and environmental demands in today’s football.

In the second part of this conversation, Strenght and Conditioning expert Mike Boyle gives us his opinion about:
- Expected recovery time for an athlete after a strength session;
- Relations between a S&C coach that works outside the club environment with his athletes… and their respective clubs;
- Load management precautions on this matter.

Listen in this forth chapter to one of the greatest experts in Blood Flow Restriction (BFR) exercise, Jeremy Loenneke, professor at the University of Mississippi with his PhD in Exercise Physiology. Topics like the mechanisms behind this type of methodology, the best way to apply it in an athletes' population and how it can boost the rehabilitation process or an injury prevention program in a football player are approached.