Infographic. Useful steps in the prevention of illnesses during international athletics championships

Édouard, Pascal; Glover, Danny; Murray, Andrew; Timpka, Toomas; Sorg, Marine; Depiesse, Frédéric; Branco, Pedro; Junge, Astrid

doi:10.1136/bjsports-2019-100953

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“…Injury and illness prevention should be seen and included as a win-win performance-prevention strategy (Edouard et al, 2019a , b ). These injury and illness prevention measures should be especially implemented in period prior to a major event, within the 6-month prior as suggested by Raysmith and Drew ( 2016 ), or at least during the month prior to the major event as suggested several studies (Alonso et al, 2015 ; Edouard et al, 2015c ; Timpka et al, 2017 ), and during the event itself as suggested by our present results.…”

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“…For both genders, the highest number of injuries per 1,000 registered athletes were observed in combined events (i.e., decathlon for male and heptathlon for female athletes during outdoor championships, and heptathlon for male and pentathlon for female athletes during indoors championships (Edouard et al, 2009 , 2010 ), marathon and long distances (Edouard et al, under revision). Regarding illnesses, during 11 international championships including outdoors and indoors, 43 illnesses per 1,000 registered athletes were reported with significantly higher values for outdoor compared to indoor championships, and for endurance compared to explosive disciplines, without significant differences between male and female athletes (Edouard et al, 2019a , b ).…”

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Relation of Team Size and Success With Injuries and Illnesses During Eight International Outdoor Athletics Championships

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Richardson

Navarro

et al. 2019

Front. Sports Act. Living

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Introduction: The number of injuries and illnesses during major athletics championships vary according to sex and discipline. They may also differ between countries (national teams) given the differences in training, medical care, nutrition, lifestyle habits, and in travel to the championships. In addition, injuries and illnesses may influence the performance during the championships. Therefore, the aim was to analyse the differences in the injury and illness occurrence during international outdoor athletics championships with regards to the athlete's country, as well as establishing the potential relationships with the success of the country during the respective championships. Method: The national medical teams and the local organizing committee physicians reported all injuries and illnesses daily on a standardized injury and illness report form during 4 World and 4 European outdoor championships from 2007 to 2018. Results were presented as number of registered athletes, injuries, illnesses and medals (absolute and per 1000 registered athletes), and for countries of different team size. Results: During these 8 championships, a total of 219 different countries participated with a total of 13059 registered athletes who incurred 1315 injuries and 550 illnesses. The number of injuries and illnesses per championships varied between countries. Countries with higher numbers of registered athletes had a higher number of injuries and illnesses, as well as a higher number of medals and gold medals. There were significant positive correlations between number of injuries/illnesses and number of registered athletes, medals, gold medals. Injury and illness numbers per 1,000 registered athletes differed between countries and team sizes. Analyzing country participation grouped according to the number of registered athletes, there were significant negative correlations between injury/illness and medals/gold medals per 1,000 registered athletes. Conclusions: Given the correlation between health problems and country size, we suggest that medical services provision and staff should be adapted to the team size. In groups of different country team sizes, lower number of injuries and illnesses per registered athletes were correlated with higher number of medals and gold medals per registered athletes, which can support that injury and illness prevention should be recognized as a win-win performance-prevention strategy.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Relation of Team Size and Success With Injuries and Illnesses During Eight International Outdoor Athletics Championships

Édouard

Richardson

Navarro

et al. 2019

Front. Sports Act. Living

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“…This difference was largely due to the higher rate of exercise-induced dehydration/fatigue/hypotension/collapse problems in endurance disciplines (Edouard et al, 2019b ). We therefore suggest paying attention to endurance athletes, by taking into account the environmental/climatic conditions (e.g., heat, humidity, and wind) in order to prevent heat illnesses, as well as preventing respiratory tract and infection problems (Edouard et al, 2019a ).…”

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“…Consequently, promoting measures to reduce the spread of communicable infections is highly relevant in the context of international championships. This includes basic actions such as (Hanstad et al, 2011 ; Alonso et al, 2012 ; Schwellnus et al, 2016 , 2017 ; Timpka et al, 2017 ; Edouard et al, 2019a , b ):…”

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“…These epidemiological results are fundamental to improve the development of more focused injury and illness prevention research and to implement preventative measures based on objective measures of the problem (van Mechelen et al, 1992 ). Epidemiological data provides useful insight when trying to anticipate medical service provision and to help in the screening of athletes at risk (Edouard et al, 2015a , 2019a , b ; Edouard et al, under revision). Alongside surveillance, there is a need to develop prevention measures.…”

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