Wouter Welling

Wouter Welling
  • Doctor of Philosophy
  • PhD at University of Groningen

About

48
Publications
47,348
Reads
How we measure 'reads'
A 'read' is counted each time someone views a publication summary (such as the title, abstract, and list of authors), clicks on a figure, or views or downloads the full-text. Learn more
1,492
Citations
Introduction
Sport Scientist (PhD) PhD Candidate University of Groningen • Injury prevention • Return to sport • Motor learning • Biomechanics • Movement analysis • Monitoring trainingload
Current institution
University of Groningen
Current position
  • PhD
Additional affiliations
January 2022 - present
Pro-F
Position
  • Head of Performance
March 2020 - December 2021
Omnium
Position
  • Lab head
January 2017 - present
University of Groningen
Position
  • PhD Student
Education
January 2017 - June 2021
University of Groningen
Field of study
  • Center of Human Movement Sciences
September 2012 - October 2014
University of Groningen
Field of study
  • Human Movement Science, Rehabilitation
September 2009 - June 2012
University of Groningen
Field of study
  • Human Movement Science

Publications

Publications (48)
Article
Full-text available
Background A limited number of patients return to sport (RTS) after an anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction (ACLR) and patients who RTS have a relatively high risk for second ACL injury. The purpose of the current study was to compare the results of a test battery between patients who returned to the pre-injury level of sport (RTS group) and p...
Article
Objectives:The purpose of the current study was to compare the results of a progressive strength training protocol for soccer players after anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction (ACLR) with healthy controls, and to investigate the effects of the strength training protocol on peak quadriceps and hamstring muscle strength.Design:Between subjects...
Article
Full-text available
Purpose: The purpose of the current prospective study was to assess the changes over time in patients tested at 6 months and 9 months after anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction (ACLR) with a return to sport (RTS) test battery. It was hypothesized that more patients passed RTS criteria at 9 months compared to 6 months. Methods: Sixty-two ACL...
Article
Full-text available
PurposeThere is a lack of objective factors which can be used in guiding the return to sport (RTS) decision after an anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction (ACLR). The purpose of the current study was to conduct qualitative analysis of the single leg hop (SLH) in patients after ACLR with a simple and clinical friendly method and to compare the p...
Article
Full-text available
ABSTRACT Background: Retention of movement technique is crucial in anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injury prevention programs. It is unknown if specific instructions or video instructions result in changes in kinematic and kinetic measures during a relatively short training session, and in a retention test one week later. Hypothesis/Purpose: The p...
Article
Full-text available
OPTIKNEE is an international consensus group focused on improving knee health and preventing osteoarthritis after a traumatic knee injury. OPTIKNEE consists of clinician-scientists (physiotherapists, sports and exercise medicine physicians, orthopedic surgeons, kinesiologists), clinicians (physiotherapists), clinicians, and patients from Canada, A...
Article
Full-text available
In ons vorige artikel 1 gaven we drie adviezen voor het optimaliseren van de revalidatie na een voorstekruis band reconstructie: 1) daag patiënten uit en zorg voor een optimale belasting, 2) spreek de taal van je patiënten en 3) train de hersenen. In dit vervolgartikel laten we zien hoe deze adviezen kunnen worden geïmplementeerd binnen het laatste...
Article
Full-text available
Sportgericht nr. 5 | 2023-jaargang 77 40 Testen en meten is belangrijk 1 , maar het is nog veel belang rijker wat we patiënten binnen de revalidatie na een VKB reconstructie aanbieden. Trainen we wel hard genoeg om hun doelen te bereiken? Wat voor type instructies gebruiken we daarbij? En vergeten we hierbij niet dat een VKBblessure meer is dan all...
Article
Full-text available
Background: Improving jump-landing technique during rehabilitation is important and may be achieved through different feedback techniques, i.e., internal focus of attention (IF) or external focus of attention using a target (EF). However, there is a lack of evidence on the most effective feedback technique after anterior cruciate ligament reconstr...
Article
Full-text available
Onderzoek naar de voorste kruisband is hot. Volgens de weten schappelijke database Pubmed zijn er de laatste vijf jaar meer dan duizend wetenschappelijke artikelen gepubliceerd over het onderwerp 'Return to Sports na een VKB-reconstructie'. In een serie eerdere artikelen in Sportgericht heb ik het belang van testen en meten van verschillende factor...
Article
Full-text available
Background: Limited information is available on the experiences of patients during rehabilitation after anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction (ACLR). Aim: The current study aimed to identify factors that differentiated positive and negative patient experiences during rehabilitation after ACLR. Method and design: A survey-based study with a...
Article
Full-text available
Terugkeren naar de sport na een blessure is naast een fysieke uitdaging, ook een mentale uitdaging. Het mentale gedeelte is echter nog vaak onderbelicht binnen de sportrevalidatie. Door het gebruik van vragenlijsten kan de mentale status van de patiënt geobjectiveerd én bespreekbaar gemaakt worden. Indien gewenst kan de sport-psycholoog een rol spe...
Book
Full-text available
Every week, we read in the sports newspapers that a professional athlete rupture her or his anterior cruciate ligament (ACL). Patients who wish to return to sports (RTS) after an ACL rupture are advised to undergo an ACL reconstruction (ACLR) to restore knee function and stability. The most frequent question a patient asks after an ACLR is: “when c...
Article
Full-text available
Background After anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction (ACLR), a patient’s physical capacities, such as (repeated) sprint performance, agility performance, and intermittent endurance performance, are often reduced because of detraining effects. Monitoring the progression of these physical capacities is essential for specific training goals befo...
Article
Full-text available
Sportspecifieke veldrevalidatie is een belangrijke brug tussen het klinische gedeelte van de revalidatie en de daadwerkelijke terugkeer naar sportbeoefening. In dit artikel geven wij een kijkje in de keuken omtrent de opbouw van de veldrevalidatie bij voetballers na een VKB reconstructie. Hierbij geven wij voorbeelden van simpele, praktische oefeni...
Article
Background: After an anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction (ACLR), a patient’ physical capacities such as (repeated) sprint performance, agility performance and intermittent endurance performance are often reduced caused by de-training effects. Monitoring the progression of these physical capacities is essential for specific training goals befo...
Article
Full-text available
Na een voorste kruisband reconstructie (VKBR) keren relatief veel sporters niet terug naar hun preoperatieve niveau van sportbeoefening, omdat zij angst ervaren voor het oplopen van een nieuwe blessure. Hoe monitoren we de psychologische gereedheid voor terugkeer naar de sport? En wat kunnen we doen als blijkt dat angst of een gebrek aan vertrouwen...
Article
Full-text available
Eenbenige voorwaartse hoptesten worden veel gebruikt om te bepalen of sporters na een VKB-reconstructie (VKBR) kunnen terugkeren naar sportbeoefening. Meestal bewegen zij tijdens het sporten echter niet alleen voorwaarts, maar in meerdere richtingen. Zijn de klassieke voorwaartse hoptesten wel specifiek genoeg om een verantwoorde return-to-sport be...
Article
Full-text available
Despite the development of return to sport (RTS) guidelines over recent years, there is a lack of a scientific consensus on the RTS criteria used to release a patient to unrestricted sport activity after ACL reconstruction (ACLR). A proportional meta-analysis, showed that only 23% of patients after ACLR passed RTS test batteries before RTS. Althoug...
Article
Full-text available
Het belang van quadriceps- en hamstringkracht binnen de revalidatie na een voorste kruisband reconstructie (VKBR) is algemeen bekend. Maar hoe test je of de kracht goed genoeg is? Welke variabelen en criteria gebruik je om dit te bepalen? En hoe pas je het revalidatieprogramma vervolgens aan, zodat de gewenste criteria bij een volgend testmoment wo...
Article
Full-text available
Na een voorste kruisband reconstructie (VKBR) verwacht meer dan 90% van de amateursporters terug te kunnen keren naar het preoperatieve sportniveau. 1 Helaas blijkt dat in de praktijk slechts 65% te zijn. 2 Tevens krijgt zo'n 6-20% (afhankelijk van de leeftijd) een nieuwe VKB-blessure. 3 Het merendeel van deze nieuwe VKB-blessures treedt op binnen...
Article
Full-text available
Na een voorste kruisband reconstructie (VKBR) keren relatief veel patiënten niet terug naar het preoperatieve sportniveau. Uit onderzoek blijkt dat er tijdens de revalidatie mogelijk niet voldoende en zwaar genoeg wordt getraind ter voorbereiding op een terugkeer naar sport. Om hier meer inzicht in te krijgen is de interne trainingsbelasting binnen...
Article
Full-text available
Background Strength deficits, muscle imbalances, and quadriceps inhibition are common after the surgical reconstruction of the anterior cruciate ligament (ACL), even after the patient’s returned-to-sport. Typically, asymmetries between the operated and non-operated leg as well as the hamstring/quadriceps (HQ) ratio are calculated using maximum isok...
Article
Abstract Purpose The purpose of the current prospective study was to assess the changes over time in patients tested at 6 months and 9 months after anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction (ACLR) with a return to sport (RTS) test battery. It was hypothesized that more patients passed RTS criteria at 9 months compared to 6 months. Methods Sixty-t...
Article
Full-text available
PurposeIt is unknown how movement patterns that are learned carry over to the field. The objective was to determine whether training during a jump-landing task would transfer to lower extremity kinematics and kinetics during sidestep cutting. Methods Forty healthy athletes were assigned to the verbal internal focus (IF, n = 10), verbal external foc...
Article
Full-text available
40 S p o r t g e r i c h t n r. 2 / 2 0 1 7 – j a a r g a n g 7 1 Het schoudergewricht is een van de minst stabiele gewrichten in het men-selijk lichaam. 1 Onderzoek laat zien dat 2% van de gehele populatie instabiliteit van de schouder ervaart door sportlet-sel of een ongeval. 2 Schouderinstabili-teit is een multidisciplinair probleem en komt rela...
Article
Background: Hop tests are frequently used to determine return to sports (RTS) after anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction (ACLR). Given that bilateral deficits are present after ACLR, this may result in a falsely high limb symmetry index (LSI), since LSI is calculated as a ratio between the values of the limbs. Hypothesis: Athletes after ACL...
Article
Background It is unknown if learned motor skills as practiced in ACL injury prevention training carry over to other tasks. Objective Determine if training of a jump-landing task results in transfer of improvement in lower extremity biomechanics during sidestep cutting. Design Randomized controlled trial. Setting Controlled laboratory setting, re...
Article
Full-text available
Purpose: There is a lack of consensus regarding the appropriate criteria for releasing patients to return to sports (RTS) after anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction (ACLR). A test battery was developed to support decision-making. Methods: Twenty-eight patients (22 males and 6 females) with a mean age of 25.4 ± 8.2 years participated and wer...
Thesis
Full-text available
Abstract Background: The anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) is one of the most common injuries in sports activities. Current ACL injury prevention programs have shown suboptimal long-term results. Recent literature show beneficial results of adopting an external focus of attention in several motor activities. Optimizing current ACL injury prevention...
Conference Paper
Wouter Welling Abstract Background: The anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) is one of the most common injuries in sports activities. Current ACL injury prevention programs have shown suboptimal long-term results. Recent literature show beneficial results of adopting an external focus of attention in several motor activities. Optimizing current ACL...
Conference Paper
Full-text available
Abstract Background: The anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) is one of the most common injuries in sports activities. Current ACL injury prevention programs have shown suboptimal long-term results. Recent literature show beneficial results of adopting an external focus of attention in several motor activities. Optimizing current ACL injury preventio...
Article
Full-text available
Objectives The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of an internal and external attentional focus on single leg hop jump distance and knee kinematics in patients after ACL reconstruction (ACLR). Design Experimental. Setting Outpatient physical therapy facility. Participants Sixteen patients after ACLR. Main Outcome Measures Patient...
Article
Full-text available
Background Anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injury prevention programs have been successful in the short term. Motor learning strategies with an internal focus (IF) to body movements have traditionally been utilized, but may be less suitable than an external focus (EF) for the acquisition and control of complex motor skills required for sport. Obj...
Article
Full-text available
Background: Fatigue has been shown to affect performance of hop tests in patients after anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction (ACLR) compared to uninjured controls (CTRL). This may render the hop test less sensitive in detecting landing errors. The primary purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of lower extremity fatigue on landin...

Questions

Question (1)
Question
Is it OK to use only one questionnaire (with a total score and different subscales) to validate another? Are there any quidelines? Thank you.

Network

Cited By