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Sports Injury Forecasting and Complexity

Sports Injury Forecasting and Complexity

Our latest collaboration with the Physiotherapy research group of the university UFMG in Brazil, sheds light on sports injury forecasting and complexity. The understanding that sports injury is the result of the interaction among many factors and that specific profiles could increase the risk of the occurrence of a given injury was a significant step in establishing programs for injury prevention. However, injury forecasting is far from being attained. To be able to estimate future states of a complex system (forecasting), it is necessary to understand its nature and comply with the methods usually used to analyze such a system.

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