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Finland : Civic activities, growing participation, diversification, and professionalisation
2022
Football arrived in Finland with English seamen in the late nineteenth century. Although Finland engaged in international football as early as the 1912 Olympic Games in Stockholm, football did not become a popular national game. The Football Association of Finland (FAF) emphasised that football should be developed according to amateur principles. Between the World Wars, football had to fight with the Finnish version of baseball (pesäpallo) for living space. Football has been a sport of the cities and urban areas and spread to the countryside slowly. Nevertheless, unlike in other sport domains with a split between non-socialist and workers’ sport movements until the 1990s, the FAF united the…
Professionalising clubs : increasing paid work in Finnish team sports clubs
2022
Urheiluseurat ammattimaistumisen ristiaallokossa
2022
Urheilun ammattimaistuminen on jatkunut Suomessakin jo vuosikymmeniä. Tutkittua tietoa on ollut saatavilla niukanlaisesti. Tätä tutkimusaukkoa paikkaa raportti, jonka aineisto koottiin vuodenvaihteessa 2020–2021 toteutetulla seurakyselyllä. Ammattimaistumista osoitti jo sekin, että kyselyyn vastanneissa 91 seurassa oli keskimäärin seitsemän päätoimista työntekijää. Enimmillään seurassa toimi 200 osa-aikaista työntekijää. Yli puolet seuroista oli saanut palkkaukseen ulkopuolista tukea, ja yleisin rahoituslähde oli oppisopimus- ja työllistämistuki. Osaavan työvoiman löytäminen osoittautui haastavaksi. Seuratyöntekijöiden lisäksi 60 prosenttia vastanneista seuroista maksoi palkkaa urheilijoill…
Towards professional service delivery organisations : transformation of grassroots sports clubs in Finnish team sports
2022
The psychosocial impact of career-ending injuries in elite rugby union players : a qualitative study
2014
Retirement from sport can be a difficult transition for an athlete, particularly when participation in sport has formed a significant part of their identity and life as a whole. In the case of professional sport, athletes who retire because of a career-ending injury may have to deal with the unexpected double impact of losing their career and income and recovering from a serious injury, thus potentially making this exit from sport particularly problematic. This transition can be made all the more difficult since the athlete may be unprepared for it. Research on career-ending injuries among professional athletes, however, is limited. The purpose of this study was to document the lived experi…
Aivotärähdysten kuntoutukseen tarvitaan kokonaisvaltaista näkökulmaa
2022
Nuorten urheilijoiden alaraajavammat ja riskitekijät : 12 kuukauden prospektiivinen kohorttitutkimus
2013
Tämän tutkimuksen tarkoituksena oli selvittää alaraajojen nivelten liikkuvuuden ja puolierojen yhteyttä alaraajojen urheiluvammoihin. Koehenkilöt olivat Tampereen alueelta 2011 kirjallisella kutsulla vapaaehtoisesti tutkimukseen osallistuvia kansallisella ja kansainvälisellä huipputasolla salibandyä, koripalloa ja jääkiekkoa pelaavia urheilijoita. (n=141, 114 naista, 27 miestä). Tutkimus oli osa UKK-instituutin ”Polvi- ja nilkkavammoja ennustavat tekijät sekä vammojen ehkäisy nuorilla urheilijoilla”–tutkimusta. Alaraajojen liikkuvuutta ja puolieroja mitattiin seitsemän eri testin avulla (polven laksiteetti ja yliojennus, nivelten yleinen yliliikkuvuus, takareiden elastisuus, lonkan maksimaa…
Finnish athletes' expectations about physiotherapy in sport injury rehabilitation
2011
As the injured athlete's primary and most frequent contact within the sport injury rehabilitation process, the physiotherapist is in a unique position to influence the athlete's psychological rehabilitation alongside the physical recovery (Barefield & McCallister, 1997). The important question of whether or not athletes expect physiotherapists to address their psychological issues, however, has not yet been investigated in detail. Moreover, scales that measure athletes’ expectations of physiotherapy are also scarce and available only in the English language. Therefore, the purpose of this study was two-fold: 1) to adapt the Expectation About Athletic Training (EAAT) questionnaire into Finni…
A collective case study of athletic identity and successful injury rehabilitation
2015
A severe injury is an identity threatening situation for competitive athletes. Previous literature suggests that having a strong athletic identity can be beneficial for the athlete when injured. To the date there has been little research on how athletic identity is managed during that challenging time of injury. The purpose of this study was to explore how athletic identity is managed during the injury and rehabilitation phase before returning to competitive sport. Knowing the determinants of athletic identity management allows practitioners to adjust their interventions toward specific issues when working with injured athletes. The present study is a qualitative, collective case study. Her…
How does a simulated soccer match affect regional differences in biceps femoris muscle architecture?
2017
Soccer is played by thousands of athletes across the globe and its participation increases the overall risk of injury, in particular, hamstring strain injuries (HSI). Biceps femoris (BF) has been shown to be involved the in 5 out of 6 HSI cases and risk factors including fatigue and short BF fascicle length (FL) have been identified. Furthermore, previous studies suggest that different muscle regions may undergo different strains during dynamic tasks, which could contribute to injury risk. The primary aim of this study was to evaluate the effects of a soccer match on regional differences in the BF muscle architecture. A secondary aim was to assess the reliability of the extended field of vi…