PT - JOURNAL ARTICLE AU - Rogério Ferreira Liporaci AU - Marcelo Camargo Saad AU - Débora Bevilaqua-Grossi AU - Marcelo Riberto TI - Preseason intrinsic risk factors—associated odds estimate the exposure to proximal lower limb injury throughout the season among professional football players AID - 10.1136/bmjsem-2017-000334 DP - 2018 May 01 TA - BMJ Open Sport & Exercise Medicine PG - e000334 VI - 4 IP - 1 4099 - http://bmjopensem.bmj.com/content/4/1/e000334.short 4100 - http://bmjopensem.bmj.com/content/4/1/e000334.full SO - BMJ OPEN SP EX MED2018 May 01; 4 AB - Background/aim Football players frequently face the occurrence of non-contact musculoskeletal injuries. The purpose of the study was to verify whether the evaluation of combined risk factors could produce a score system to determine the probability of injury in football players during the Brazilian football season.Methods Sixty-two male professional soccer players recruited from the first and second division soccer teams, with ages between 18 and 36 years. Functional performance evaluations were carried out at the beginning of the preseason which included strength and jumping tests, history of injuries and characteristics of athletes.Results and conclusions The results were grouped and a score/monogram was constructed.