Piskin Daghan, Cobani Gjergji, Lehmann Tim, Büchel Daniel, Baumeister Jochen
Department of Sport & Health, Exercise Science & Neuroscience Unit Universität Paderborn, Warburger Straße 100, 33098, Paderborn, Germany.
Sci Rep. 2025 Jan 16;15(1):2208. doi: 10.1038/s41598-025-86196-4.
Anterior cruciate ligament injuries (ACLi) impact football players substantially leading to performance declines and premature career endings. Emerging evidence suggests that ACLi should be viewed not merely as peripheral injuries but as complex conditions with neurophysiological aspects. The objective of the present study was to compare kicking performance and associated cortical activity between injured and healthy players. Ten reconstructed and 15 healthy players performed a kicking task. Kicking biomechanics were recorded using wearable inertial measurement unit sensors. Cortical activity was captured with a 64-electrode mobile electroencephalography. Multiscale entropy (MSE) analysis of biomechanics revealed increased variability in foot external rotation among injured players. Source-derived event-related spectral perturbations indicated significant differences in posterior alpha and frontal theta oscillations between the two groups. Furthermore, kick-related complexity of these regions as indexed by MSE was reduced in injured players at medium and coarse scales. Our findings suggest sensorimotor changes during kicking in injured players, which may necessitate compensatory strategies involving augmented attention at the cost of processing visuospatial information. This conflict may hinder the integration of task-relevant information across distributed networks. Our study provides preliminary insights into the neurophysiological implications of ACLi within football context and underscores the potential for prospective research.
前交叉韧带损伤（ACLi）对足球运动员影响极大，会导致运动表现下降和职业生涯过早结束。新出现的证据表明，ACLi不应仅仅被视为外周损伤，而应被视为具有神经生理学方面的复杂病症。本研究的目的是比较受伤球员和健康球员的踢球表现及相关的皮层活动。10名接受重建手术的球员和15名健康球员进行了踢球任务。使用可穿戴惯性测量单元传感器记录踢球生物力学数据。用64电极移动脑电图捕捉皮层活动。生物力学的多尺度熵（MSE）分析显示，受伤球员的足部外旋变异性增加。源衍生的事件相关频谱微扰表明两组之间后α波和额θ波振荡存在显著差异。此外，以MSE为指标的这些区域与踢球相关的复杂性在受伤球员的中尺度和粗尺度上降低。我们的研究结果表明受伤球员在踢球过程中感觉运动发生了变化，这可能需要补偿策略，即以处理视觉空间信息为代价增加注意力。这种冲突可能会阻碍跨分布式网络的任务相关信息整合。我们的研究为足球环境中ACLi的神经生理学影响提供了初步见解，并强调了前瞻性研究的潜力。
