Medical Experts in Football

# 8: PT & Researcher, Mario Bizzini - World Cup, FIFA 11+ Program (all ages), and work in Switzerland

Taiwo Adeshigbin - Physical Therapist | Sports Journalist

Mario Bizzini is a sports PT and researcher based in Switzerland. He has his PhD from the Oslo SportsTrauma and Research Center from the Norwegian School of Medicine and a Masters of Science from the University of Pittsburg. 

He’s worked in 5 World Cups and 3 Olympics.  He spent 12 years working for the FIFA Medical Research and Clinical Assessment.  Today, he works as a clinician and researcher splitting his time at the Schulthess Clinic and the Human Performance Lab and Swiss Concussion Center.

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Exercise-Based Knee and Anterior Cruciate Ligament Injury Prevention.
https://www.jospt.org/doi/10.2519/jospt.2018.0303?url_ver=Z39.88-2003&rfr_id=ori:rid:crossref.org&rfr_dat=cr_pub%20%200pubmed

Implementing Injury Prevention https://www.aspetar.com/journal/upload/PDF/2018671906.pdf

FIFA 11+: an effective programme to prevent football injuries in various player groups worldwide-a narrative review.
https://bjsm.bmj.com/content/49/9/577.long 

**RETURN TO SPORT 

2016 Consensus statement on return to sport from the First World Congress in Sports Physical Therapy
https://bjsm.bmj.com/content/50/14/853.long

Return to Sport After Anterior Cruciate Ligament Injury: Panther Symposium ACL Injury Return to Sport Consensus Group.
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/2325967120930829?url_ver=Z39.88-2003&rfr_id=ori:rid:crossref.org&rfr_dat=cr_pub%20%200pubmed

Photo credit: Mario Bizzini 

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Adding The Sun by Kevin MacLeod
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