Clinical Evaluation Techniques for Injury Risk Assessment in Elite Swimmers: A Systematic Review.

Context: Evidence concerning a systematic, comprehensive injury risk assessment in the elite swimming population is scarce.

Objective: To evaluate the quality of current literature regarding clinical assessment techniques used to evaluate the presence and/or development of pain/injury in elite swimmers and to categorize objective clinical assessment tools into relevant predictors (constructs) that should consistently be evaluated in injury risk screens of elite swimmers.

Data Sources: PubMed, Embase, Scopus, CINAHL, SPORTDiscus, PEDro, and the Cochrane Library Reviews were searched through September 2018.