Injuries in 13 international Athletics championships between 2007–2012

Abstract

The incidence of injuries varied substantially between different types of Athletics championships and between discipline categories. Special attention should be paid to combined events, running disciplines and (thigh) strain to better understand the injury mechanisms and risk factors and develop related preventive measures.

Risk of Injuries in Paralympic Track and Field Differs by Impairment and Event Discipline

“…When comparing the results of this study to those of other investigations involving the sport of athletics, it is noted that injury patterns involving able-bodied athletes also reveal a higher incidence of injuries in competition than in training, although able-bodied athletes experienced a higher incidence of time-loss injuries (36% of total injuries across 13 international athletics championships) compared with the athletes in the current study. 10 Additionally, in ambulant athletes without an impairment, the most frequently observed diagnosis was a thigh strain, 1-4,10 similar to the findings of this study in which the thigh was the most common anatomic region injured in ambulant athletes with an impairment. Given the varied definitions of the injury IR and IP across studies, it is somewhat difficult to create a direct comparison of these descriptors for athletes with and without an impairment.…”

“…44, No. 6 DOI: 10.1177/0363546516629949 Ó 2016 The Author(s) This includes athletes with amputation, a spinal cord injury, cerebral palsy (CP), visual impairment, and intellectual impairment, among others.…”

Injury and illness definitions and data collection procedures for use in epidemiological studies in Athletics (track and field): Consensus statement

“…Marathon could be combined with half-marathon and road races, and hurdles with sprints.

Athletic event groups (modified from references 1, 2 and 32) Sprints (60, 100, 200 and 400 m) and relays (4 × 100 and 4 × 400) Middle distance runs (800–1500 m) Long-distance runs (3000–10 000 m) including steeplechase (2000 and 3000 m steeplechase) Cross-country races Marathon, half-marathon and road races Race walking (5, 10, 20 and 50 km) Hurdles (60, 100, 110 and 400 m hurdles) Jumps (high, long, triple and pole vault) Throws (discus, javelin, hammer and shot put) Combined events (pentathlon, heptathlon, octathlon and decathlon) Notes : (1) This event group classification is based on the Athletics Olympic programme and also includes all official events at different official International Association of Athletics Federation (IAAF) Championships (indoors, outdoors, age groups, cross country, road races and race walking); (2) on previous Athletics studies,1 2 3 32 marathon was separated from other long-distance runs as the distance is well enough defined for purposes of between-study comparisons; half-marathon and road races can be added in this group depending of the study design and studied populations; (3) hurdles may in some studies assemble small populations and can be added to sprints group; (4) ultra running, mountain running and other extreme distance road races were not included in this classification of event categories but could make up further athletic event groups and (5) cross-country race can be separated from the long-distance runs for comparison with other cross-country studies.

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Challenges in Athletics injury and illness prevention: implementing prospective studies by standardised surveillance

“…To this end, surveillance studies have been conducted at 13 international Athletics championships in recent years,2–7 using standardised methods developed by the IOC1 and IAAF 2 3. Thus, important data on injury and illness incidences and characteristics in elite athletes during international Athletics competition have been reported and, as demonstrated in the paper by Feddermann et al ,5 successfully monitored over time.…”