Translation and synthesis of the IOC consensus statements: The first mission of ReFORM for a better knowledge dissemination to the Francophonie

The awareness of injury prevention programmes is insufficient among French- and German-speaking sports medicine communities in Europe

“…dedicated working committee, educational programmes, congresses, consensus meeting and book publication [40]) paved the way for the crucial awareness building step for professionals, as suggested by the present data, and follows other leading examples such as the European Society of Sports Traumatology, Knee Surgery and Arthroscopy (ESSKA) [39]. The ReFORM network started similar initiatives, but is younger (2018) and its courses and knowledge transfer activities for the sports medicine community have started only recently [25, 26]. These two entities also represent two different types of approaches: on the one hand (GOTS), a traditional professional and scientific society and on the other one (ReFORM) a consortium of five individual sports medicine centres which is part of the largest global network of sports injury prevention [17].…”

“…In this respect, a major challenge remains the access to practical resource materials for potential stakeholders at all levels. Both general and sport‐specific prevention programmes, along with their associated evidence, should be made available using adapted communication supports and translated into the target group’s language [26]. Organizations such as the GOTS and ReFORM should make a significant contribution to these efforts in the future due to their special positions and structures.…”

Déficit énergétique relatif dans le sport (RED-S) : synthèse ReFORM de la position de consensus du Comité International Olympique

“…Cette publication fait partie du projet de traductionsynthèse des positions de consensus du CIO porté par le Réseau Francophone Olympique de la Recherche en Médecine du sport (ReFORM) et présenté dans un précédent éditorial [2].…”