On February 26th, Anikka Prien, will defend her thesis on the long term health of female elite athletes. Until now, long-term health issues in elite athletes received little attention in sports medicine research. This is an important gap in the literature, as it is known that certain sport-related injuries may predispose elite athletes to adverse long-term outcomes. Particularly scant information is available on long-term health in retired elite female athletes. In order to delay or even prevent long-term health issues in this population, more knowledge about post-career health is needed. Therefore, the aim of her thesis was to analyse the prevalence of long-term health problems and associated risk factors in retired female football players. A summary and download link is provided inside.
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Carefully assess and report the compliance with your intervention
This one is part of the Methods Matter series that we co-host in the British Journal of Sports Medicine. In randomised controlled trials (RCTs) of interventions that aim to prevent sports injuries, the intention-to-treat principle is a recommended analysis method and one emphasised in the Consolidated Standards of Reporting Trials (CONSORT) statement that guides quality reporting of such trials. However, an important element of injury prevention trials-compliance with the intervention-is not always well-reported. Therefore, to highlight the importance of reporting compliance, in this study we carefully evaluated eight of the author’s previous trials with the purpose to describe the compliance during follow-up and address compliance issues that surfaced. Based on these observations, we discussed how results from ITT analyses can be interpreted according to the observed compliance.
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Virtual sports deserve real sports medical attention
We already shared this viewpoint in Social Media before, but it got no attention here so far. In this current viewpoint, we argue that those involved with Sports Science and Medicine should lead the discussion and reflect on the health effects of eSports participation, providing scientifically-based arguments to better answer to the current eSports professionalism.
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Injuries affect the mental health of professional athletes
In the final rush of 2019 some of our studies made it to publication. This particular study - an observational prospective cohort study - explored the association between concussion or musculoskeletal injuries, and the onset of mental health symptoms (MHS) in male professional rugby players over a 12-month period.
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PHD THESIS: Applying qualitative methods in sports injury prevention research
Another thesis that is approved and about to be defended before the committee. Caroline Bolling gave voice to athletes and artists in her work entitled “Who Me? I thought you would never ask!” in which she applied qualitative methods in sports injury prevention research. You may have seen some of her work already floating around Social Media where it was picked up by several clinical colleagues. Please find below the summary of her thesis, and drop us a line of you would like an electronic copy of the full book.
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