This study just appeared online in the renowned British Journal of Sports Medicine. In this study, Evert Verhagen and Caroline Bolling collaborated with our Australian, South African and Canadian IOC Research Centres colleagues. This study explored the policy and practice impact of the IOC Consensus Statements on athlete health and medical team management in two economically and contextually diverse countries.
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Injuries in Physical Education Teacher Students
We are fresh into 2023, but we already have this new manuscript to share with you. One of the last of the Ph.D. work by Maarten Barendrecht. In this study, we set out to understand the high injury risk in Physical Education Teacher Education (PETE) students. Insights into specific injury locations per sex, setting, sports, and curriculum year are needed to develop preventive measures. This study set out to compare injury distributions by body locations in PETE students and how these distributions differ by sex, type, onset, curriculum year, settings, or sports.
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Prevention in Sports Symposium
On Friday 4 November, we organized the first edition of the “Prevention in Sports” symposium. A day to meet, connect and talk about our shared drive and motivation to protect the health of athletes. Down here, you will find the talks and workshops that we hosted during the day. On to the next edition!
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Do stakeholders in athletics perceive injury prevention as relevant?
Considering the magnitude and burden of athletic injuries (track and field) across all levels of participation, it appears logical that injury prevention measures should be implemented. However, it is unclear whether injury prevention is perceived as a necessity by stakeholders in athletics. In this study, we explored how athletic stakeholders perceived the relevance of injury prevention, determined their communication preferences, and described their expectations regarding injury prevention.
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Does injury prevention in sports pay off?
When evaluating preventive measures, we tend to focus on injury rates - more specifically, a reduction in injury rates - as the main outcome of interest. However, other outcomes may be needed to highlight, for instance, the benefit of an intervention at a policy level. Therefore, this systematic review analysed economic evaluations of sports injury prevention programmes.
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