TY - JOUR
T1 - Considerations and Interpretation of Sports Injury Prevention Studies
AU - Delfino Barboza, Saulo
AU - Rössler, Roland
AU - Verhagen, Evert
PY - 2018/7/1
Y1 - 2018/7/1
N2 - Promoting sports participation for health is part of the public health agenda worldwide. The same holds true for preventing sports injury, an unfavorable consequence of sports. In order to transfer research findings to practice, however, clinicians should consider the particulars of design, outcome measures, and data analyses of sports injury prevention studies. This article provides a summary of approaches used to assess the effect of injury prevention strategy in sports. This summary is intended to support clinicians on the decision-making process to apply research findings in the area of sports injury prevention in their practice.
AB - Promoting sports participation for health is part of the public health agenda worldwide. The same holds true for preventing sports injury, an unfavorable consequence of sports. In order to transfer research findings to practice, however, clinicians should consider the particulars of design, outcome measures, and data analyses of sports injury prevention studies. This article provides a summary of approaches used to assess the effect of injury prevention strategy in sports. This summary is intended to support clinicians on the decision-making process to apply research findings in the area of sports injury prevention in their practice.
KW - Athletic injuries
KW - Epidemiologic methods
KW - Injury prevention
KW - Sports medicine
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85048289617&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.csm.2018.03.006
DO - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.csm.2018.03.006
M3 - Review article
C2 - 29903383
SN - 0278-5919
VL - 37
SP - 413
EP - 425
JO - Clinics in sports medicine
JF - Clinics in sports medicine
IS - 3
ER -