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New special issue of the BJSM
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Supported by the International Olympic Committee (IOC), a new special issue of the British Journal of Sports Medicine “Injury Prevention and Health Protection" is just released.
The role of the IOC is to establish evidence-based knowledge, support research and disseminate the knowledge throughout the world of sports in cooperation with the international federations.
For Olympic winter sports little knowledge on injury and illness risk exists. Therefore, the IOC has implemented an injury and illness surveillance study during the 2010 Vancouver Olympics, and the results reveal a high injury and illness risk in many winter sports.
In a next step, analyses of injury mechanisms in high risk Olympic Winter sports are essential to better direct injury prevention strategies.
But Vancouver represented much more than injuries. Evolution of new sports and equipment, for example boots, helmets and skis, drives the sports forward, oftentimes to be curbed by subsequent rule changes. The effectiveness of preventive equipment in skiing and snowboarding is discussed in as many as three papers in this issue.
Flørenes and co-workers from the Oslo Sports Trauma Research Center (OSTRC) present 3-years data from the FIS injury surveillance system among World Cup freestyle skiers, and their injury rate is indeed high.
This issue of BJSM IPHP contains also several risk factor studies, all worth your attention. Bjørneboe and co-workers from the OSTRC looked at playing on 3. generations artificial turf as a risk factor for football injuries, and Benneker studied risk factors for injuries among snowboard athletes.
The editors´ choice in the present issue, “Compliance with an injury prevention program”, has an encouraging message. This papers shows that “The 11+”, a 20 minutes comprehensive warm-up exercise program, really works in recreational sports. This paper, however, also illustrates the efforts necessary to obtain good compliance with injury prevention training programs.
These special issues of the British Journal of Sports Medicine Injury Prevention and Health Protection (4 issues per year) are edited by Prof. Lars Engebretsen, Head of the Scientific Activities in the IOC, and Kathrin Steffen, IOC and OSTRC.
Do you want to learn more about injury and illness prevention in sports?
Then, don´t forget to register for the IOC World Conference on Prevention of Injury & Illness in Sport in Monaco 2011, April 7-9. Here, you will be presented the current state of the art in research on injuries and illnesses among athletes.