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.
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Judo is a popular international combat sport with an estimated 20 million active participants worldwide. Although with great health benefits, participation entails a substantial risk of injury. Whereas injury prevention programmes in other sports have been proven effective in reducing injury rates, in judo, such programmes are only described and have never been formally evaluated.
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