Bone stress injuries in athletics (track and field) championships: findings from a prospective injury surveillance conducted across 24 international championships with 29,147 registered athletes [PDF]
Background Athletics (track and field) athletes are prone to develop bone stress injuries (BSIs) but epidemiological data on BSIs from top-level sports events are scarce.
Tim Hoenig +6 more
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Peculiarities of Sports Injures of Sprint and Throwing Cohorts in Track and Field Athletics
Research background and hypothesis. The severity of recurrence of injuries in track and field athletics gives possibility to adjust training programs for athletes.
Linas Rekus +6 more
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Problem: Injuries in athletics are common and may lead to restrictions in athletics participation and performance. We thus aimed to describe the epidemiology (prevalence, incidence, burden, characteristics) of injuries self-reported by the athletes ...
Edouard P +12 more
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Relationship between a daily injury risk estimation feedback (I-REF) based on machine learning techniques and actual injury risk in athletics (track and field): protocol for a prospective cohort study over an athletics season [PDF]
Introduction Two-thirds of athletes (65%) have at least one injury complaint leading to participation restriction (ICPR) in athletics (track and field) during one season.
Karsten Hollander +8 more
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Relationship between floating toe score and performance in track and field athletes. [PDF]
This study explored the relationship between floating toes and athletic performance among collegiate track and field athletes. A total of 422 athletes (sprinters, jumpers, and distance runners) and 136 controls participated in this study. Plantar surface
Yohei Yamazaki +9 more
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Hamstring Muscle Injuries and Hamstring Specific Training in Elite Athletics (Track and Field) Athletes [PDF]
Objective: We aimed to describe hamstring muscle injury (HMI) history and hamstring specific training (HST) in elite athletes. A secondary aim was to analyse the potential factors associated with in-championships HMI. Methods: We conducted a prospective cohort study to collect data before and during the 2018 European Athletics Championships. Injury and
Pascal Édouard +9 more
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National Medical Teams during European Athletics Championships from 2009 To 2024: Composition, Gender Distribution, and Influence on Team Performance [PDF]
Background Having the overall goal to help countries/teams in the preparation of their national medical teams for international athletics championships, we aimed to describe the composition of national medical teams, including gender distribution, and to
Pascal Edouard +8 more
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The development of the performance sex gap in track-and-field events across the lifespan [PDF]
Due to sexual dimorphism, men outperform women in athletics, and thus they compete separately. Although the difference, called “the performance sex gap”, was thought to be stable across the lifespan, our research suggests that the gap changes with age ...
Barbora Balcarova, Arve Vorland Pedersen
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The ‘vicious circle’ of sports injuries: an analysis of 165 athletics (track and field) athletes over a 39-week follow-up using Markov chains [PDF]
Objective To explore (1) the risk of injury according to the number of previous injuries, and (2) the risk of progression of the athletes’ health status according to the impact on athletics participation (ie, no injury/healthy (H), injury with full ...
Pascal Edouard, Spyridon Iatropoulos
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Vulnerability and stressors on the pathway to depression in a global cohort of young athletics (track and field) athletes [PDF]
This research set out to identify pathways from vulnerability and stressors to depression in a global population of young athletes. Retrospective data were collected at age 18–19 years from Athletics athletes (n = 1322) originating from Africa, Asia ...
Toomas Timpka +7 more
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