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Table 1 Study selection criteria.

From: The effectiveness of neuromuscular warm-up strategies, that require no additional equipment, for preventing lower limb injuries during sports participation: a systematic review

Inclusion Criteria

Those studies:

   • Which investigated neuromuscular warm-up strategies without the need for additional equipment other than that readily available at training or competition venues

• for the prevention of any lower limb injury (hip, thigh, knee, ankle, leg)

• using functional training

• could be performed anywhere (for example, on-pitch)

• without the use of specialist apparatus

• easily incorporated into regular activity

   • Which are detailed enough for replication

   • Where injury incidence was an outcome

Exclusion Criteria

Those studies:

   • Where the intervention is not part of a warm-up program

   • Using home-based exercises due to the poor uptake and regular commitment

   • Using equipment (for example, wobble board training) due to cost and availability

   • Where the intervention included training outside of sporting participation sessions

   • Where participants had an ongoing injury

   • Using no control or comparison group

   • Which were non-peer reviewed articles

   • Of single participant study design