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Injury Prevention in Track and Field

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Management of Track and Field Injuries

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Given the risk of injuries lead by the track and field (Athletics) practice, the prevention of injuries in track and field represents an important area for athletes and all stakeholders, such as coaches, health professionals, family, sports scientists, managers, sponsors, as well as international and national govern bodies. Using a step-by-step approach that aims to understand and describe all components of the sports injuries, seems relevant to develop measures, strategies, and/or programs that can reduce the occurrence of injuries. Unlike other sports, currently and to our knowledge, there is no scientific published evidence proven by randomized controlled trials or other high-quality studies on the efficacy of injury prevention measure, program or strategy in track and field. Injury prevention approach should target the main injuries, taking into account the specific injury characteristics by disciplines and sex, and if possible, the specificities of each individual athlete. In addition, the preventative approach should be global, multimodal, and multifactorial, including but not limited to, improvements of physical conditioning, technical movement and lifestyle, psychological approach, adaptation of sports equipment and rules, coordinated and consistent medical care of athletes, and systematic and sustained approach by all stakeholders to support and promote injury prevention and safety practice.

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  • 18 February 2022

    This book was inadvertently published with a typo in the book title: the term “injures” has been corrected to “Injuries”

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  1. Inter-university Laboratory of Human Movement Science (LIBM EA 7424), University of Lyon, University Jean Monnet, Saint Etienne, France

    Pascal Edouard

  2. Department of Clinical and Exercise Physiology, Sports Medicine Unit, Faculty of Medicine, University Hospital of Saint-Etienne, Saint-Etienne, France

    Pascal Edouard

  3. European Athletics Medical & Anti Doping Commission, European Athletics Association (EAA), Lausanne, Switzerland

    Pascal Edouard

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  1. Centre of Sports Traumatology, Koelliker Hospital, Torino, Italy

    Gian Luigi Canata

  2. Orthopedic Surgery, Aspire Zone, ASPETAR Qatar Orthopaedic and Sports Medicine Hospital, Doha, Qatar

    Pieter D'Hooghe

  3. Orthopaedic Surgery, University of Colorado Health, Aurora, CO, USA

    Kenneth J. Hunt

  4. Department of Orthopaedic Surgery Amsterdam UMC, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam Movement Sciences, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Gino M. M. J. Kerkhoffs

  5. Orthopaedics and Traumatology Unit, University Campus Biomedico, Rome, Italy

    Umile Giuseppe Longo

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Edouard, P. (2022). Injury Prevention in Track and Field. In: Canata, G.L., D'Hooghe, P., Hunt, K.J., M. M. J. Kerkhoffs, G., Longo, U.G. (eds) Management of Track and Field Injuries. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-60216-1_29

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