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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On Wednesday, April 21st, Jo Verschueren will defend his PhD Thesis. The interaction of fatigue and adaptability with lower extremity functional performance tests. A wonderful collaboration between our group and the MFYS Laboratory of Romain Meeussen. His defence is public and can be joined through … http://www.youtube.com/VUBeadlesOffice (Wednesday April 21st. 11.45 - 13.00). A summary can be found behind this link.
Read MoreWe are proud to have shared our voice in this important work! Since antiquity, athletic and Olympic competitions have been separated according to the traditional binary concept of male & females. We have gone past this binary definition in our contemporary society, yet sports are struggling to keep up with this debate. This consensus discussed some of those issues and provided a balanced consensus on how to deal with them.
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The IOC has recently proposed standard methods for recording and reporting data for injury and illness in sport (1). The authors of the IOC consensus statement anticipated that sport-specific statements would provide further recommendations. We have now led the development of a tennis-specific extension of the IOC statement.
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Our last post was on the effect of mental fatigue on clinical decision tools for injury risk. Now we can top that up with a twin study looking at physical fatigue. Same overall conclusions, fatigue affects the outcome of employed screening tests. Consider then that when injuries occur on the field … usually, some form of acute fatigue is present.
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This recent study we published is very fundamental but imagine the clinical implications. We employ balance tasks for risk assessment, return-to-play decisions, and performance measures. Normally in non-fatigued conditions. But, did you know the outcomes of these test change when the subject is fatigued?
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