We are the Amsterdam Collaboration on Health & Safety in Sports (ACHSS). An initiative that brings together, within the Amsterdam UMC, two Dutch leading academic groups on research and clinical practice of athlete health protection. The ACHSS initiative is one of the 11 IOC Research Centers for Prevention of Injury and Protection of Athlete Health.
Through this website we will keep you updated on our own research and others' who deal with these topics.
Publications
One of our latest collaborations culminated in this review. We often think of primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention when preventing sports-related injuries. However, a new concept called quaternary prevention focuses on protecting individuals from interventions that could do more harm than good.
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We are extremely proud that we were able to contribute to this editorial. Women are under-represented in sports and exercise medicine (SEM), which leads to negative biases and consequences. According to research, female athletes are under-represented in sports and exercise studies, and women hold fewer leadership positions in SEM. Due to a lack of female representation in SEM, knowledge gaps in sports performance, cardiovascular health, and postpartum physiology have arisen.
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We were fortunate to be able to contribute to this editorial that explores artificial intelligence's (AI) potential to generate academic papers. We highlighted the scientific community's acceptance of language-based AI, with examples of ChatGPT being credited as an author and used to generate an academic paper. We then looked at academic papers, emphasizing the importance of a thesis, persuasive arguments, extensive research, critical thinking, and accurate referencing.
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Recent studies have shown the value of the insider’s voice and the importance of qualitative research to gain insight into the complex context of injury prevention. This study, which has just got published in BOSEM, explores the experience and opinions of technical and medical staff (head coaches (HCs), fitness coaches (FCs), team doctors and physiotherapists) in professional football regarding injuries, their prevention and implementation of preventive measures. The insights gained from this study could provide practical directions on the ‘who’ and ‘how’ of injury prevention implementation. We were very lucky to closely collaborate with our colleagues in Aspetar on this latest study,
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Sixty million golfers around the world play golf. Golf injuries are most frequent in the spine, elbow, wrist, hand, and shoulder. There is currently no effective warm-up program for golf injury prevention. Hence, Saskia Gladines stepped in and developed the Golf Related Injury Prevention Program (GRIPP) intervention using the Knowledge Transfer Scheme (KTS) developed out of our group. Now it is time to evaluate this new program’s effectiveness, and in this paper, we describe our protocol to do so.
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