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BJSM Injury Prevention issue is published!
Intoduction
A special themed issue of the British Journal of Sports Medicine has been produced to coincide with the 1st World Congress of Sports Injury Prevention. The June issue of BJSM contains original and commissioned material covering all aspects of sports injury prevention, as well as the abstracts for the world congress, including several papers from the Oslo Sports Trauma Research Center.
In one of these, professor Roald Bahr and PhD student Tron Krosshaug describe a new expanded multifactorial model to describe the causes of sports injuries. This model accounts for the events leading to the injury situation (playing situation, player and opponent behaviour), and includes a description of whole body and joint biomechanics at the time of injury. The model also considers how internal and external risk factors can modify injury risk. Describing the injury mechanisms also on a sports-specific level may provide important information that can be used to develop effective preventive measures, which adds to the biomechanical description. For example, even if one may argue that ultimately, the factors causing a joint injury are the loads that act on the joint, i.e. the biomechanical factors, from a prevention perspective it may be more effective to describe the playing situation, e.g. illegal player-opponent behavior.
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In a second paper, Krosshaug and co-workers at the Oslo Sports Trauma Research Center have reviewed the research methodology for sports injury mechanism studies.The review describes eight different research approaches and assesses their strengths and weaknesses in contributing to the understanding and prevention of sports injuries. In this review, the case of non-contact ACL injuries is used as an example to illustrate the different research approaches that have been used in the injury mechanism research.The different approaches have been divided into: 1) athlete interviews, 2) Clinical studies (e.g. radiography, MRI and CT), 3) Video analysis, 4) Laboratory motion analysis, 5) In-vivo strain/force measurements, 6) Injuries during biomechanical experiments, 7) Cadaver and dummy studies and 8) Mathematical modelling. Krosshaug and co-workers conclude that no single research approach alone is adequate in terms of having both the necessary validity, accuracy and completeness of provided information. Therefore it was recommended to combine a number of different research approaches. For example, relevant combinations of research approaches which could provide a broader and more precise understanding could be combining athlete interviews, video analysis and clinical studies, or combining video analysis and cadaver/dummy/mathematical simulation studies.
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All participants of the 1st World Congress of Sports Injury Prevention will receive free copies of the special themed issue as part of their registration material upon arrival in Oslo. The congress has drawn world-wide attention in the sports medicine community, and more than 500 delegates from almost 50 countries have signed up for the congress so far.