This paper addresses if and how a periodic health examination to screen for risk factors for
injury can be used to mitigate injury risk. The key question asked is whether it is possible to …

Norway's Professor Roald Bahr recently highlighted that screening does not predict which
athlete will sustain an injury. 1 Some interpreted this to mean screening is useless for injury …

Sports injury etiological studies explore the relationships between potential injury risk factors
and injury outcomes. The ability of such studies to clearly identify intrinsic risk factors for …

As the science of sport medicine has evolved over the past several decades, interest has
grown in the epidemiological study of injury patterns. With the recognition of these patterns …

Injuries can counter the beneficial effects of sports participation at a young age if a child or
adolescent is unable to continue to participate because of residual effects of injury …

Injury surveillance is the ongoing collection of data describing the occurrence of, and factors
associated with, injury. The success of any sports injury surveillance system and its wide …

What constitutes a 'recordable event'is arguably the most critical methodological factor
affecting the results of sports injury and illness surveillance studies. Although numerous …

Sport is beneficial to health, but may also cause injuries. Therefore there is a need for sports
injury prevention. Sports injury prevention should be based on the outcome of scientific …

As participation in junior, high-school and college sports has increased dramatically over the
last three decades, sports injuries have increased commensurately. In the US alone, sports …

More and more sports medicine clinicians are taking an active approach to prevent injury
and illness within their team. 1–3 The first steps in developing a risk management plan are …