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Pre-Hospital Care
Published in Ian Greaves, Keith Porter, Jeff Garner, Trauma Care Manual, 2021
Ian Greaves, Keith Porter, Jeff Garner
Other examples of injury prevention include promotion of the use of cycling helmets, dedicated bike lanes in cities, speed limit reduction in built-up areas and the development of car safety features such as passenger air bags and crumple zones. Improvements in and mandatory use of personal protection equipment for workers exposed to occupational hazards and the introduction of safety procedures at building sites in line with developing legislation are examples of injury prevention in industry.
Prevention is Better Than Cure
Published in Adam Gledhill, Dale Forsdyke, The Psychology of Sports Injury, 2021
Based on identified risk factors, different injury prevention programmes have been developed. One of the most frequently implemented is the FIFA 11+ (Soligard et al., 2008). This program is based on a combination of strengthening, balancing and jumping/landing exercises. The FIFA 11+ program has been effective in reducing injuries in, for example, soccer (Thorborg et al., 2017). Other types of prevention programmes, effective in reducing injury rates, are balance board training and warm-up programmes (for more information, see, Leppänen et al., 2014). Unlike physical, physiological or biomechanical injury risk factors, even where prominent psychosocial factors (e.g. psychosocial stress) have been found to influence injury risk, few intervention programmes targeting these factors have been implemented. To extend the knowledge within the field of injury prevention, it is, however, important to include a biopsychosocial perspective into regular injury prevention work (Gledhill & Forsdyke, 2018; Gledhill et al., 2018).
Injury Prevention
Published in James M. Rippe, Manual of Lifestyle Medicine, 2021
Injuries, including both unintentional injuries and violence-related injuries, are a major public health problem and an area where lifestyle medicine physicians can play a significant role (1,2). Injuries are typically underestimated in all of medicine, including lifestyle medicine. This is because we mistakenly often call injuries “accidents.” This suggests that they are random events or even acts of God. There is a large science of injury prevention that shows us that injuries are not accidents; they are predictable and preventable. Clinicians in the area of lifestyle medicine should become knowledgeable in this area and help educate the public on the importance of injury prevention.
Lower limb injuries in an english professional football club: injury analysis and recommendations for prevention
Published in The Physician and Sportsmedicine, 2023
Mohamad Y. Fares, Katy Stewart, Michael McBride, John Maclean
It is also necessary to address injury prevention from an administrative perspective, which goes beyond player-associated risk factors, and includes communication and leadership strategies developed by coach and staff [53]. During a meeting in Porto in 2013, chief medical officers were asked about the most common factors contributing to injuries, and those included the quality of internal communication, leadership style of head coach, and workload executed on players, and their wellbeing [53–55]. A study by Ekstrand et al in 2018 deliberated more on the subject, as it showed that higher levels of transformational leadership was associated with a smaller number of severe injuries [56]. It also showed that good and positive communication between training staff and players resulted in lower rates of injuries and higher attendance rates at training sessions [56]. This shows that risk factors that stem from staff and communication need to be integrated into injury prevention guidelines and strategies.
Epidemiology of rugby-related fractures in high school- and college-aged players in the United States: an analysis of the 1999–2018 NEISS database
Published in The Physician and Sportsmedicine, 2022
Christine M Etzel, Karina H Wang, Lambert T Li, Maheen Nadeem, Brett D Owens
Previous studies have shown that after sprain/strain injuries, fractures are the most common injury type in rugby for both men and women [13,14]. Meixner et al. recently described the demographics of fracture and dislocations across the US in certain sports and recreational activities, yet did not include rugby in their analysis [15]. While there has been some research dedicated to rugby injury rates around the world, much of the published literature focuses on professional or adult players and does not detail the incidence of fractures [16–20]. Understanding the epidemiology of injuries can contribute to improved injury prevention strategies, including changes to equipment, rules, and coaching. The National Electronic Injury Surveillance System (NEISS) database is a nationally representative probability sample of hospitals in the US and its territories and is appropriate for the analysis of fractures as the severity of these injuries would likely warrant an emergency room visit.
The impact of simulated soccer match-play on hip and hamstring strength in academy soccer players
Published in Science and Medicine in Football, 2022
Jamie Salter, R. Cresswell, D. Forsdyke
Sports injuries are multifactorial in nature and understanding contributing risk factors associated with them is important for the early stages of systematic injury prevention frameworks (Van Tiggelen et al. 2008; O’Brien et al. 2017). Understanding risk factors can then serve as a precursor to developing evidence and context-informed prevention strategies. Previous research has found several non-modifiable (e.g., age, previous injury, level of play) and modifiable (e.g., range of movement, lumbo-pelvic control, altered trunk flexion, muscle strength) risk factors to be associated with HSI and HGI (Engebretsen et al. 2010; Whittaker et al. 2015; Lahti et al. 2020). Of these identified factors it is muscle strength, or more specifically for the context of this study, eccentric hamstring and hip adductor and abductor strength that has gained greatest research interest (Thorborg et al. 2014; Buckthorpe et al. 2019).