Communication quality between the medical team and the head coach/manager is associated with injury burden and player availability in elite football clubs

Ekstrand, Jan; Lundqvist, Daniel; Davison, Michael; D'Hooghe, Michel; Pensgaard, Anne Marte

doi:10.1136/bjsports-2018-099411

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“…In this way, as some sports medicine studies have already suggested, load management is an important strategy for injury prevention 25 26. The literature also emphasises the need for an open communication27 and shared responsibility28 in load management. Hereby, the AD’s role of team manager and leader is also a relevant to support injury prevention strategies.…”

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From the safety net to the injury prevention web: applying systems thinking to unravel injury prevention challenges and opportunities in Cirque du Soleil

Bolling

Mellette²,

Pasman

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BMJ Open Sport Exerc Med

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ObjectiveWe undertook this qualitative study within an international circus company—Cirque du Soleil—to explore the narrative of artists and the artistic team in regards to injuries and their prevention and to describe the prevention of injuries from a systems thinking lens.MethodsFocus groups (FG) with artists and semistructured individual interviews with the artistic team were conducted in six selected shows. The structure of the interviews and FGs concerned the themes: ‘injury’, ‘injury-related factors’ and ‘injury prevention’. Data were analysed through comparative data analysis based on Grounded Theory. Concept mapping and systems thinking approaches were used to design a map of participants’ views on how to prevent injuries.ResultsInjury was mainly described based on performance limitation. The factors mostly mentioned to be related to injury occurrence were physical load factors. Many of these factors were said to be connected and to influence each other. Injury prevention was mapped as a multilevel system, composed by artist-related factors (eg, technique and life style) and extrinsic factors (eg, touring conditions and equipment) that integrate different strategies and stakeholders.ConclusionOur study reinforces the importance of multilevel injury prevention approaches with shared responsibility and open communication among stakeholders.

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From the safety net to the injury prevention web: applying systems thinking to unravel injury prevention challenges and opportunities in Cirque du Soleil

Bolling

Mellette²,

Pasman

et al. 2019

BMJ Open Sport Exerc Med

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“…The importance of communication for sports injury prevention has been addressed in the recent literature. Poor communication in the team has been associated with injuries in soccer 33. Staff communication and teamwork has been suggested as important components of successful implementation of sports injury prevention strategies 34–36.…”

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Letting the cat out of the bag: athletes, coaches and physiotherapists share their perspectives on injury prevention in elite sports

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ObjectivesTo explore how sports injury prevention takes place in elite sport practice and to describe the perspectives of athletes, coaches and physiotherapists regarding the most critical factors that help prevent injury in the elite sports context.MethodsQualitative study. Semistructured interviews with 19 international level athletes, coaches and physiotherapists, from different Olympic sports. Interviews were transcribed verbatim and analysed using comparative data analysis based on Grounded Theory.ResultsThe participants perceived injury risk as an inherent part of elite sports, because athletes try to enhance performance by pushing their limits. Participants described injury prevention as a learning process that changed over time, based on their sports experience and the injuries that they had sustained along their career. Communication among the athletes, coaches and physiotherapists was described as a key component of the injury prevention process. Study participants emphasised the relevance of teamwork and shared responsibility. Performance was presented as the core of the athlete’s daily practice, indicating that injury prevention can be a means to that end but is not a goal in itself for this community.ConclusionParticipants perceive injury prevention as part of elite sports and thus embrace the need for injury prevention. Injury prevention strategies in elite sports were described as a learning process, following the dynamic nature of training for maximal performance. Performance is the participants’ main goal.

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“…Barnes et al [2] highlighted the ever-increasing high-intensity demands of professional soccer in the modern game, with an increase in sprint distance of ~35 % over a 7-season period. Because of the intense physical nature of the sport, a high level of injuries has been reported across a range of professional clubs [3]. In particular, non-contact muscular injuries appear to be a significant issue for both coaching and medical staff, accounting for almost one third of all time-loss injuries in men's professional soccer [4,5].…”

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Workload and Injury in Professional Soccer Players: Role of Injury Tissue Type and Injury Severity

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The purpose of the present study was to examine the influence of workload prior to injury on injury (tissue type and severity) in professional soccer players. Twenty-eight days of retrospective training data prior to non-contact injuries (n=264) were collated from 192 professional soccer players. Each injury tissue type (muscle, tendon and ligament) and severity (days missed) were categorised by medical staff. Training data were recorded using global positioning system (GPS) devices for total distance (TD), high speed distance (HSD,>5.5 m/s−1), and sprint distance (SPR,>7.0 m/s−1). Accumulated 1, 2, 3, 4-weekly loads and acute:chronic workload ratios (ACWR) (coupled, uncoupled and exponentially weighted moving average (EWMA) approaches) were calculated. Workload variables and injury tissue type were compared using a one-way ANOVA. The association between workload variables and injury severity were examined using a bivariate correlation. There were no differences in accumulated weekly loads and ACWR calculations between muscle, ligament, and tendon injuries (P>0.05). Correlations between each workload variable and injury severity highlighted no significant associations (P>0.05). The present findings suggest that the ability of accumulated weekly workload or ACWR methods to differentiate between injury type and injury severity are limited using the present variables.

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Communication quality between the medical team and the head coach/manager is associated with injury burden and player availability in elite football clubs

Abstract: The quality of internal communication within a team was correlated with injury rates, training attendance and match availability.

Cited by 132 publications

References 30 publications

From the safety net to the injury prevention web: applying systems thinking to unravel injury prevention challenges and opportunities in Cirque du Soleil

From the safety net to the injury prevention web: applying systems thinking to unravel injury prevention challenges and opportunities in Cirque du Soleil

Letting the cat out of the bag: athletes, coaches and physiotherapists share their perspectives on injury prevention in elite sports

Workload and Injury in Professional Soccer Players: Role of Injury Tissue Type and Injury Severity

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