## 2 Materials and Methods
### Procedure  
The participants were found via personal and/or telephone contact with them and/or their physicians and/or their physiotherapists and/or their coaches and trainers from football, basketball, and handball by the authors from the cities of Athens and Sparta. Participants who met the inclusion criteria were informed during the first meeting, which took place one week before the team's first sport competition game, about (a) the pur \begin{table}
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**Variables** & **Min/Max** & **M** & **SD** \\ \hline Age & 18/35 & 26.18 & 5.48 \\ \hline Competitive experience (years) & 3/23 & 12.64 & 7.05 \\ \hline Duration of injury (days) & 14/48 & 26.21 & 8.32 \\ \hline Duration of absence from sport (days) & 14/45 & 24.61 & 9.01 \\ \hline Duration of physiotherapy treatment (days) & 7/45 & 19.64 & 8.51 \\ \hline Physiotherapy treatment sessions (per week) & 2/5 & 3.21 & 1.10 \\ \hline \multicolumn{4}{c}{**Frequency**} & **Percentage** \\ \hline Sex & Man & 28 & 100 \\ \hline Sport & Football & 28 & 100 \\ \hline Competing level & Amateur & 28 & 100 \\ \hline \multirow{4}{*}{Type of injury} & Ligament sprain & 15 & 53.6 \\ \cline{2-4}  & Muscle strain & 11 & 39.3 \\ \cline{2-4}  & Bone fracture & 1 & 3.6 \\ \cline{2-4}  & Plantar fasciitis & 1 & 3.6 \\ \hline \multirow{4}{*}{Area of injury} & Ankle & 10 & 35.7 \\ \cline{2-4}  & Knee & 5 & 17.9 \\ \cline{1-1} \cline{2-4}  & Thigh & 11 & 39.2 \\ \cline{1-1} \cline{2-4}  & Hip & 2 & 7.2 \\ \hline \multirow{4}{*}{Medical treatment} & Yes & 19 & 67.8 \\ \cline{1-1} \cline{2-4}  & No & 9 & 32.2 \\ \cline{1-1} \cline{2-4}  & Yes & 2 & 7.1 \\ \cline{1-1} \cline{2-4}  & No & 26 & 92.9 \\ \hline \hline \end{tabular}
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Table 1: Descriptive statistics of the demographic data of the sample (n = 28). pose of the study, (b) the voluntary nature of participation, and (c) the confidentiality of their responses. Also, they were informed that any publication of the results would be anonymous. They were asked to sign an informed consent document for participation in the present study. The duration of the meeting was approximately 15 min. The study was approved by the University's Institutional Research Ethics Committee prior to data collection (663/11 January 2023). In the second meeting, which took place the day before the team's first competition, the CR-IWQ and the SCQ-RARC were completed. Functional tests were also performed on the same day. After the official competition, the AQ-RARC was completed. The first functional test was the single lateral jumps in time/side hop (Figure 2a). The athletes stood on the leg being tested with their hands behind their back. They jumped from side to side between two parallel strips of tape placed 40 cm apart on the floor. They were told to jump as many times as possible within a 30 s period. The number of successful jumps, where the athlete did not touch the tape, was recorded. Touching the tape was recorded as an error. If more than 25% of the jumps had errors, a second trial of 30 s was performed after a 3 min rest period. The test was performed with both lower limbs [28]. In the second functional test, which is the single-leg hop-for-distance test, a controlled, balanced landing were performed by the athletes, and they were instructed to keep the landing foot in place (Figure 2b). Thus, they stood on the leg that was tested and then hopped as far as possible. The participants landed on the same leg with a free leg swing, and their hands were behind their backs. No extra hops were allowed until the examiner registered the landing position; failure to maintain the landing without additional hops resulted in a disqualified hop. The distance was measured in centimeters from the toe at push-off to the heel at landing [28]. The vertical jump test is performed as a countermovement jump (Figure 2c). The athletes were in a standing position with their hands behind their backs.