How elite athletes, coaches, and physiotherapists perceive a sports injury

Bolling, Caroline; Barboza, Saulo Delfino; Mechelen, Willem van; Pasman, H. Roeline W.

doi:10.1002/tsm2.53

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“…Our participants perceived that performance was impaired because of sports injuries. In a previous study, this same group of participants described injury based on performance limitation 20. Our participants acknowledged the idea that sports injury prevention strategies are ‘part of training’ and can improve performance.…”

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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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“…(3) Injury prevention strategies (online supplementary appendix 2). The data from the question regarding injury definition have been published in a previous study 20. The current study focused on the injury prevention strategies that were applied.…”

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“…Questions ask for the athletes’ perceptions of the consequences that a health problem has on their participation and performance, as well as their perceived symptoms. These perceptions are dependent on contextual factors such as athlete experience, level of sports, type of sport and time of season 23 24. This means that data collected from different cohorts of athletes will not necessarily be comparable.…”

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Improved reporting of overuse injuries and health problems in sport: an update of the Oslo Sport Trauma Research Center questionnaires

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In 2013, the Oslo Sports Trauma Research Center Overuse Injury Questionnaire (OSTRC-O) was developed to record the magnitude, symptoms and consequences of overuse injuries in sport. Shortly afterwards, a modified version of the OSTRC-O was developed to capture all types of injuries and illnesses—The Oslo Sports Trauma Research Center Questionnaire on Health Problems (OSTRC-H). Since then, users from a range of research and clinical environments have identified areas in which these questionnaires may be improved. Therefore, the structure and content of the questionnaires was reviewed by an international panel consisting of the original developers, other user groups and experts in sports epidemiology and applied statistical methodology. Following a review panel meeting in October 2017, several changes were made to the questionnaires, including minor wording alterations, changes to the content of one question and the addition of questionnaire logic. In this paper, we present the updated versions of the questionnaires (OSTRC-O2 and OSTRC-H2), assess the likely impact of the updates on future data collection and discuss practical issues related to application of the questionnaires. We believe this update will improve respondent adherence and improve the quality of collected data.

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“…Our findings also support new perspectives of studying the sports‐injury problem, as despite experiencing pain and sporting function limitations, most players decide to continue to play. This emphasizes the need for contextualization of sports‐injury definitions, including not only perspectives from athletes and researchers, but also from coaches and clinicians, as these are fundamental for implementing successful injury prevention interventions …”

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“…This emphasizes the need for contextualization of sports-injury definitions, including not only perspectives from athletes and researchers, but also from coaches and clinicians, as these are fundamental for implementing successful injury prevention interventions. [32][33][34]…”

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Prevalence and severity of groin problems in Spanish football: A prospective study beyond the time‐loss approach

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Scandinavian Med Sci Sports

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The time‐loss definition of injury is commonly adopted in epidemiological groin‐injury studies in football, with a significant risk of underestimating the impact of these injuries. This study investigated the extent of groin problems, beyond the time‐loss approach, over a full Spanish football season. Players from 17 amateur male teams were followed over 39 consecutive weeks. Groin‐injury time loss and self‐reported groin pain, irrespective of time loss, were combined to calculate the average weekly prevalence of all groin problems with or without time loss. A subscale measuring hip‐ and groin‐related sporting function from the Copenhagen Hip and Groin Outcome Score questionnaire (HAGOS, Sport/Rec) was registered every 4 weeks. In total, 407 players participated in the study. The average (range) weekly prevalence of all groin problems was 11.7% (7.2%‐20.8%); 1.3% with time loss (0.0%‐3.2%) and 10.4% without time loss (6.3%‐17.6%). Players with groin problems reported lower scores (mean difference) on the HAGOS, Sport/Rec subscale compared with players without (−19.5 [95% CI: −20.7 to −18.4]), while there was no difference between players reporting groin problems with and without time loss (4.0 [95% CI: −1.1 to 9.1]). The traditional time‐loss measure only captured 10% of all groin problems. Hip‐ and groin‐related sporting function was not different between players reporting groin problems with or without time loss, suggesting the reason for continuing to play is not only related to the severity of symptoms. These findings question the judicious use of the time‐loss approach in overuse conditions, such as groin pain in footballers.

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How elite athletes, coaches, and physiotherapists perceive a sports injury

Cited by 58 publications

References 33 publications

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

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

Improved reporting of overuse injuries and health problems in sport: an update of the Oslo Sport Trauma Research Center questionnaires

Prevalence and severity of groin problems in Spanish football: A prospective study beyond the time‐loss approach

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