Effect of an unsupervised multidomain intervention integrating education, exercises, psychological techniques and machine learning feedback, on injury risk reduction in athletics (track and field): protocol of a randomised controlled trial (I-ReductAI).

The primary aim is to assess the impact of a multidomain intervention that integrates education, exercise, psychological techniques and machine learning feedback on the duration athletes remain free from injury complaints leading to participation restriction (ICPR) during a 20-week summer competitive athletics season. The secondary aims are to assess the intervention's effect on reducing (i) the incidence, (ii) the burden, (iii) the period prevalence and (iv) the weekly prevalence of ICPR during the same timeframe. We will perform a two-arm randomised controlled trial.

Association between the use of daily injury risk estimation feedback (I-REF) based on machine learning techniques and injuries in athletics (track and field): results of a prospective cohort study over an athletics season.

Objective: To analyse the association between the level of use of injury risk estimation feedback (I-REF) provided to athletes and the injury burden during an athletics season.

Method: We conducted a prospective cohort study over a 38-week follow-up period on athletes competing at the French Federation of Athletics. Athletes completed daily questionnaires on their athletics activity, psychological state, sleep, self-reported level of I-REF use, and injuries.

Relationship Between the Pain Intensity at the Time of the Hamstring Muscle Injury and the Hyperintense T2 Weighted Volume of the Hamstring Muscle Lesion Measured by MRI.

Objectives: The primary objective of this study was to analyze the correlation between the pain experienced at the time of a hamstring muscle injury and the hyperintense T2 weighted volume of the lesion measured on MRI. The secondary objectives were to analyze the differences in this pain with the lesion grade and the hamstring muscle head involved.

Design: We performed a retrospective analysis of the data collected in a prospective, multicenter, noninterventional cohort study (HAMMER).

Design and validation of Withings ECG Software 2, a tiny neural network based algorithm for detection of atrial fibrillation.

Background: Atrial Fibrillation (AF) is the most common form of arrhythmia in the world with a prevalence of 1%-2%. AF is also associated with an increased risk of cardiovascular diseases (CVD), such as stroke, heart failure, and coronary artery diseases, making it a leading cause of death. Asymptomatic patients are a common case (30%-40%).

Educating and promoting athletes' health protection through infographics on injury and illness prevention during an international competition: a prospective study during the 2024 European Athletics Championships.

Objective: To investigate the feasibility, perceived relevance and usefulness of providing injury and illness prevention information through infographics to athletes and medical teams before and during an international athletics championship, and its potential impact on injury and illness risk during the same championship.

Methods: We conducted a prospective cohort study during the 2024 European Athletics Championships in Roma with (1) dissemination of infographics, (2) data collection on perceived relevance (yes/no) and perceived usefulness (score from 0 to 100) of infographics among athletes and medical teams using an online questionnaire and (3) data collection by medical teams of newly incurred injuries and illnesses among athletes during the championship.

Results: Among the 124 athletes who completed the questionnaire, 35.

The Dose-Response Relationship of an Exercise-Based Injury Prevention Program: A Secondary Analysis of a Randomized Controlled Trial on Athletics (Track-and-Field) Athletes Over a 39-Week Follow-Up.

Despite exercise-based injury prevention programs (EIPPs) being widely researched and used, several randomized controlled trials (RCTs) have failed to show their protective effect on injury risk. This is potentially due to underappreciating the EIPP dose-response relationship, by not controlling the analysis for the injuries sustained during the early EIPP implementation period, before the EIPP becomes efficacious. To determine the dose-response relationship of EIPP by controlling for the effects of injuries sustained before it became efficacious.

Coverage from medical teams and injury/illness epidemiology within youth athletics in Africa: A prospective study during the 2023 African Youth Under 18/20 Athletics Championships.

Objectives: To describe athletes' coverage by national medical teams, and injuries and illnesses occurring during the four weeks before and during the 2023 African Youth Under 18/20 Athletics Championships.

Design: Cross-sectional and prospective cohort study design.

Methods: We conducted a study with data collection of: 1) national medical teams, 2) injury and illness complaints during the four weeks preceding the championships using an online pre-participation health questionnaire, and 3) newly incurred in-championship injuries and illnesses collected by national medical teams and the local organising committee using daily standardised online report forms, for all registered athletes at the championships.

Bone stress injuries in athletics (track and field) championships: findings from a prospective injury surveillance conducted across 24 international championships with 29,147 registered athletes.

Background: Athletics (track and field) athletes are prone to develop bone stress injuries (BSIs) but epidemiological data on BSIs from top-level sports events are scarce.

Objective: To describe the incidence and characteristics of BSIs during 24 international athletics championships held from 2007 to 2023.

Methods: BSI-related data were prospectively collected during 24 international athletics championships, including the Olympic Games (n = 3), World Outdoor Championships (n = 4), European Outdoor Championships (n = 6), World Indoor Championships (n = 3) and European Indoor Championships (n = 8).

Test-Retest Reliability and Usefulness of a Foot-Ankle Rebound-Jump Test for Measuring Foot-Ankle Reactive Strength in Athletes.

Purpose: This study investigated the test-retest reliability and usefulness of the foot-ankle rebound-jump test (FARJT) for measuring foot-ankle reactive strength metrics in athletes.

Methods: Thirty-six highly trained, healthy athletes (5 female; 21.5 [3.

Overuse injury and affects in competitive sport: A prospective longitudinal study.

Overuse injuries, which have a high prevalence in sport, are suggested to result in different affective responses in comparison to traumatic injuries. Affects may also reciprocally act as risk factors for overuse injury. The aim of this study was to examine the associations between overuse injury and affects within a longitudinal follow-up design.

Muscle injuries in athletics during the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games: differences between heats and finals.

Background: The aim of this study was to analyze muscle injuries and their related risk factors during the Athletics events of the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games including the differences in muscle injury rates between heats and finals.

Methods: We included and analyzed in this study muscle injuries diagnosed by either magnetic resonance imaging, ultrasound, or physical examinations by at least two physicians, from Athletics athletes participating at the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games. Data from electronic medical records, including sex, nationality, event, and the round (heat vs.

How do sports injury epidemiological outcomes vary depending on athletes' response rates to a weekly online questionnaire? An analysis of 39-week follow-up from 391 athletics (track and field) athletes.

Objective: To explore how sports injury epidemiological outcomes (i.e., prevalence, average prevalence, incidence, burden, and time to first injury) vary depending on the response rates to a weekly online self-reported questionnaire for athletes.

Injuries and illnesses at the Munich 2022 European Championships: a prospective study of 5419 athletes from 52 countries involved in 9 sports.

Objective: To describe the incidence and characteristics of the sports injuries and illnesses that occurred during the 2022 European Championships.

Methods: We conducted a prospective study on newly incurred injuries and illnesses collected by the national medical teams and the local organising committee physicians using a standardised online report form on a daily basis, in all athletes registered at the 2022 European Championships from 11 August 2022 to 21 August 2022 in Munich (Germany).

Results: In total, 5419 athletes were registered at the 2022 European Championships in 9 sports.

Athletes who have already experienced an injury are more prone to adhere to an injury risk reduction approach than those who do not: an online survey of 7870 French athletics (track and field) athletes.

Objective: To compare the perception towards injury risk reduction approach between athletes who have already experienced an injury and those who have not.

Methods: We conducted a cross-sectional study using a one-time online survey asking athletics athletes licensed at the French Federation of Athletics (http://www.athle.

Understanding the first injury in athletics and its effect on dropout from sport: an online survey on 544 high-level youth and junior athletics (track and field) athletes.

Objective: To describe the first injury and to investigate whether it plays a role in altering athletics' sustainable practice.

Methods: We conducted a cross-sectional study using an exploratory survey on the first injury and its consequences on athletics practice. In 2021, we asked all high-level athletes licensed with the French Federation of Athletics (FFA) under 18 years, under 20 years and under 23 years categories between 2007 and 2021.

Perceptions and beliefs on sports injury prediction as an injury risk reduction strategy: An online survey on elite athletics (track and field) athletes, coaches, and health professionals.

Objectives: To explore perceptions and beliefs of elite athletics (track and field) athletes, coaches, and health professionals, towards the use of injury prediction as an injury risk reduction strategy.

Design: Cross-sectional study.

Method: During the 2022 European Athletics Championships in Munich, registered athletes, coaches, and health professionals were asked to complete an online questionnaire on their perceptions and beliefs of injury prediction use as an injury risk reduction strategy.

Risk factors for injury complaints leading to restricted participation in Athletics (Track and Field): a secondary analysis of data from 320 athletes over one season.

Objective: To investigate if several potential risk factors were associated with time to injury complaints leading to participation restriction in Athletics (ICPR).

Methods: We performed a secondary analysis of data collected during 39 weeks of the 2017-2018 Athletics season in a cluster-randomised controlled trial ('PREVATHLE'). Univariate and multivariable analyses using Cox regression models were performed to analyse the association between the time to first ICPR and potential risk factors collected (1) at baseline: sex, age, height, body mass, discipline, the usual duration of Athletics training and non-specific sports training, ICPR in the preceding season (yes/no), ICPR at baseline (yes/no); (2) weekly during the season: duration and intensity of Athletics training and competition, and non-specific sports training, fitness subjective state, sleep duration and illness (yes/no); and (3) combined.