Data concerning isometric lower limb strength of dominant versus not-dominant leg in young elite soccer players

Mehdi Rouissi; Moktar Chtara; Nicola Luigi Bragazzi; Monoem Haddad; Karim Chamari

doi:10.1016/j.dib.2018.01.022

Data concerning isometric lower limb strength of dominant versus not-dominant leg in young elite soccer players

Data Brief. 2018 Jan 31:17:414-418. doi: 10.1016/j.dib.2018.01.022. eCollection 2018 Apr.

Authors

Mehdi Rouissi¹, Moktar Chtara¹, Nicola Luigi Bragazzi^{2

3}, Monoem Haddad⁴, Karim Chamari⁵

Affiliations

¹ Tunisian Research Laboratory "Sport Performance Optimization", National Center of Medicine and Science in Sports Tunisia.
² Department of Mathematics (DIMA), University of Genoa, Genoa, Italy.
³ School of Public Health, Department of Health Sciences (DISSAL), University of Genoa, Genoa, Italy.
⁴ Sport Science Program, College of Arts and Sciences, Qatar University, Doha, Qatar.
⁵ Athlete Health and Performance Aspetar, Qatar Orthopaedic and Sports Medicine Hospital, Doha, Qatar.

Abstract

The present data article describes the isometric lower limb strength of dominant leg versus not-dominant leg measured with handheld dynamometer (HHD) in a sample of 31 young elite soccer players (age 16.42 ± 0.45 years; height 169.00 ± 0.50 cm; leg length 94.80 ± 3.32 cm; body-mass 67.04 ± 5.17 kg).

Keywords: Handheld dynamometer; Lower limb strength; Not-dominant leg; Soccer players; leg.