Literature Search - Artificial Turf vs Natural Turf

Artificial turf vs. natural grass

AUHTOR:

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Tim te Riele

STUDENT NR:

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417669

CLASS

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GG-2c1

DATE

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15-05-2009

MODULE

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Evidence based practice

TUTOR

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Marjolein Bron

SCHOOL

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HAN Nijmegen

DECLARATION OF AUTHENTICITY

I, the undersigned, declare that this literature search is my original work, and completely made by myself without the help of others. In this literature search, there are results of other researches or where almost literally is been cited there is made clear who stated it en where it’s from by APA – Style referencing. I also declare that the publications cited in this work have been personally consulted. Name: Date: Location: Tim te Riele 15-05-2009 Malden

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Preface I have written this literature search because of the fact that lots of amateur and elite football players are complaining about artificial turfs. Because for most clubs, such as my own football club, the normal natural training fields are completely bold in the winter months, and therefore there can barely been played on these pitches. This is yearly a very big problem in the sport. Artificial turf is a good solution, because there can always be played on. My football club has also an artificial turf. However, the very conservative football world seems not to keen with these artificial turfs because it would lead to more injuries. Lots of players doesn’t want to play on artificial turf, so are some of the players at my club. They rather go play on a very bad surface. I wanted to do research on this topic, therefore this literature search is going to look for evidence if artificial turf does lead to more injuries.

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Artificial turf vs. natural grass

T. te Riele Summary This literature search contents information about the injury risk when playing football on artificial turf or on natural grass. The artificial turfs that has been used are all third generation...