Psychological readiness to return to sport: three key elements to help the practitioner decide whether the athlete is REALLY ready?

Forsdyke, Dale; Gledhill, Adam; Ardern, Clare L

doi:10.1136/bjsports-2016-096770

Cited by 32 publications

(26 citation statements)

References 8 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Unclassified

Order By: Relevance

“…52 However competitive personalities may also be more likely to take minor symptoms seriously and seek medical assessment earlier. 53 Despite half of the studies 29-32, 35, 37 within this review reporting data on BMI as a risk factor for injury and/or pain in ESPs, none of the studies demonstrated a statistically significant association. These findings are consistent with the systematic review of middle and long-distance runners 15 which concluded there was no association between BMI and the rate of injury and/or pain.…”

Section: Accepted Manuscriptmentioning

confidence: 82%

The associations between training load and baseline characteristics on musculoskeletal injury and pain in endurance sport populations: A systematic review

Johnston¹

2017

Physical Therapy in Sport

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Objective: To determine the associations between training load, baseline characteristics (e.g. age or previous injury) and rate of musculoskeletal injury and/or pain specifically within an Endurance Sporting Population (ESP). Design: Prospectively registered systematic review. 3 Methods: Eight electronic databases were searched by two independent reviewers. Studies were required to prospectively monitor both (i) training loads and (ii) musculoskeletal injury and/or pain for >3 months. Methodological quality and risk of bias were determined utilising the Critical Skills Appraisal Program (CASP). Reported effect sizes were categorised as small, medium or large. Results: Twelve endurance sport studies were eligible (running, triathlon, rowing). Increased injury and/or pain risk was associated with: (i) high total training distances per week/month (medium effect size) (ii) training frequency <2 sessions/week (medium effect size) and (iii) both low weekly (<2 hours/week) and high monthly (large effect size) training durations. None of the studies reported internal training load data or acute:chronic workload ratios. Baseline characteristics found to increase the rate of injury and/or pain included: (i) a history of previous injury (medium effect size), (ii) age >45 years (small effect size), (iii) non-musculoskeletal comorbidities (large effect size), (iv) using older running shoes (small effect size) and (v) non-competitive behaviour. Conclusions: This review identifies a range of external training load factors and baseline characteristics associated with an increased rate of injury and/or pain within ESPs. There is an absence of research relating to internal training loads and acute:chronic workload ratios in relation to rate of injury and/or pain within ESPs.

show abstract

Section: Accepted Manuscriptmentioning

confidence: 82%

The associations between training load and baseline characteristics on musculoskeletal injury and pain in endurance sport populations: A systematic review

Johnston¹

2017

Physical Therapy in Sport

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…The importance of creating an environment, where key stakeholders collaborate around issues related to sport injuries has been addressed in previous studies. Forsdyke, Gledhill, and Ardern (2017), highlighted that one of the key elements related to increasing the chances of successful return to play after sport injuries is to adopt an interdisciplinary, shared decision-making approach where stakeholders collaborate to have a better foundation for making adequate decisions. This logic can also be adopted when it comes to prevention of sport injuries.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Elite female footballers’ stories of sociocultural factors, emotions, and behaviours prior to anterior cruciate ligament injury

Ivarsson

Johnson

Karlsson

et al. 2018

International Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

The aim of the study was to examine how players' perceptions of sociocultural factors and intra-and interpersonal aspects of sporting experiences may have influenced the emotions, cognitions, and behaviours of elite female soccer players prior to the occurrence of ACL injuries. The research questions guiding the study were: (a) how did female elite soccer players perceive that their psychosocial experiences were related to their cognitive, physiological, and emotional states prior to their ACL injuries, and (b) how did the players feel their perceived states influenced their behaviours prior to injury occurrence. The participants consisted of the total population of female players (N = 18) competing in the Swedish women's elite league, who incurred a total ACL tear during the 2012 season. Using a semi-structured interview guide, all players were interviewed post-season. We represented the data using a storytelling approach of aggregated creative nonfiction. The aggregated stories showed sociocultural rules and expectations of overtraining and placing pressure on athletes to play even if they were not physically or psychologically fit. Responding to pressures with potentially risk-increasing behaviours might raise the probability of becoming injured through a number of pathways. Team managers, coaches, and members of the medical team are recommended to develop environments that stimulate the players to engage in adaptive stress-recovery and risk-decreasing behaviours.

show abstract

“…Scientific studies on collegiate AF have grown exponentially since the first paper in 1969, leading to various avenues of scientific development in key areas from this time to the present day. These include injury prevention 3,4 , concussion 5 , return to play injury characteristics 6,7 , analysis of strength and conditioning [8][9][10][11] , overall health 12 and wellbeing and most recently the objective quantification of training and games [13][14][15] .…”

Section: Conceptual Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Updated Review of the Applied Physiology of American College Football: Physical Demands, Strength and Conditioning, Nutrition, and Injury Characteristics of America’s Favorite Game

Fullagar¹,

McCunn²,

Murray³

2017

International Journal of Sports Physiology and Performance

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

While there are various avenues for performance improvement in college American football (AF), there is no comprehensive evaluation of the collective array of resources around performance, physical conditioning, and injury and training/game characteristics to guide future research and inform practitioners. Accordingly, the aim of the present review was to provide a current examination of these areas in college AF. Recent studies show that there is a wide range of body compositions and strength characteristics between players, which appear to be influenced by playing position, level of play, training history/programming, and time of season. Collectively, game demands may require a combination of upper- and lower-body strength and power production, rapid acceleration (positive and negative), change of direction, high running speed, high-intensity and repetitive collisions, and muscle-strength endurance. These may be affected by the timing of and between-plays and/or coaching style. AF players appear to possess limited nutrition and hydration practices, which may be disadvantageous to performance. AF injuries appear due to a multitude of factors-strength, movement quality, and previous injury-while there is also potential for extrinsic factors such as playing surface type, travel, time of season, playing position, and training load. Future proof-of-concept studies are required to determine the quantification of game demands with regard to game style, type of opposition, and key performance indicators. Moreover, more research is required to understand the efficacy of recovery and nutrition interventions. Finally, the assessment of the relationship between external/internal-load constructs and injury risk is warranted.

show abstract

Psychological readiness to return to sport: three key elements to help the practitioner decide whether the athlete is REALLY ready?

Cited by 32 publications

References 8 publications

The associations between training load and baseline characteristics on musculoskeletal injury and pain in endurance sport populations: A systematic review

The associations between training load and baseline characteristics on musculoskeletal injury and pain in endurance sport populations: A systematic review

Elite female footballers’ stories of sociocultural factors, emotions, and behaviours prior to anterior cruciate ligament injury

Updated Review of the Applied Physiology of American College Football: Physical Demands, Strength and Conditioning, Nutrition, and Injury Characteristics of America’s Favorite Game

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About