TY - JOUR
T1 - Sports injury prevention programmes from the sports physical therapist's perspective
T2 - An international expert Delphi approach
AU - Mendonça, Luciana De Michelis
AU - Schuermans, Joke
AU - Denolf, Sander
AU - Napier, Christopher
AU - Bittencourt, Natália F.N.
AU - Romanuk, Andrés
AU - Tak, Igor
AU - Thorborg, Kristian
AU - Bizzini, Mario
AU - Ramponi, Carlo
AU - Paterson, Colin
AU - Hägglund, Martin
AU - Malisoux, Laurent
AU - Al Attar, Wesam Saleh A.
AU - Samukawa, Mina
AU - Esteve, Ernest
AU - Bakare, Ummkulthoum
AU - Constantinou, Maria
AU - Schneiders, Anthony
AU - Cavallieri Gomes, Alexandre
AU - Florentz, Didier
AU - Ozer Kaya, Derya
AU - Indra Lesmana, Syahmirza
AU - Harøy, Joar
AU - Kuparinen, Vesa
AU - Philips, Nicola
AU - Jenkins, Walter
AU - Wezenbeek, Evi
AU - Witvrouw, Erik
N1 - Funding Information:
This work has been supported by grants from the Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES - Brazil; finance code 0001).
Publisher Copyright:
© 2022 Elsevier Ltd
PY - 2022/5
Y1 - 2022/5
N2 - Objective: To provide consensus on how to plan, organize and implement exercise-based injury prevention program (IPP) in sports. Design: Delphi. Setting: LimeSurvey platform. Participants: Experienced sports physical therapists from the International Federation of Sports Physical Therapy member countries. Main outcome measures: Factors related to sports IPP planning, organization and implementation. Results: We included 305 participants from 32 countries. IPP planning should be based on an athlete's injury history, on pre-season screening results, and on injury rates (respectively, 98%, 92%, 89% agreement). In total 97% participants agreed that IPP organization should depend on the athlete's age, 93% on the competition level, and 93% on the availability of low-cost materials. It was agreed that IPP should mainly be implemented in warm-up sessions delivered by the head or strength/conditioning coach, with physical training sessions and individual physical therapy sessions (respectively, 94%, 92%, 90% agreement). Conclusion: Strong consensus was reached on (1) IPP based on the athlete's injury history, pre-season screening and evidence-based sports-specific injury rates; (2) IPP organization based on the athlete's age, competition level, and the availability of low-cost materials and (3) IPP implementation focussing on warm-up sessions implemented by the strength/conditioning coach, and/or individual prevention sessions by the physical therapist.
AB - Objective: To provide consensus on how to plan, organize and implement exercise-based injury prevention program (IPP) in sports. Design: Delphi. Setting: LimeSurvey platform. Participants: Experienced sports physical therapists from the International Federation of Sports Physical Therapy member countries. Main outcome measures: Factors related to sports IPP planning, organization and implementation. Results: We included 305 participants from 32 countries. IPP planning should be based on an athlete's injury history, on pre-season screening results, and on injury rates (respectively, 98%, 92%, 89% agreement). In total 97% participants agreed that IPP organization should depend on the athlete's age, 93% on the competition level, and 93% on the availability of low-cost materials. It was agreed that IPP should mainly be implemented in warm-up sessions delivered by the head or strength/conditioning coach, with physical training sessions and individual physical therapy sessions (respectively, 94%, 92%, 90% agreement). Conclusion: Strong consensus was reached on (1) IPP based on the athlete's injury history, pre-season screening and evidence-based sports-specific injury rates; (2) IPP organization based on the athlete's age, competition level, and the availability of low-cost materials and (3) IPP implementation focussing on warm-up sessions implemented by the strength/conditioning coach, and/or individual prevention sessions by the physical therapist.
KW - Athletic injuries
KW - Consensus
KW - Physical therapy
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85127851396
UR - https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35421834
U2 - 10.1016/j.ptsp.2022.04.002
DO - 10.1016/j.ptsp.2022.04.002
M3 - Article
C2 - 35421834
AN - SCOPUS:85127851396
SN - 1466-853X
VL - 55
SP - 146
EP - 154
JO - Physical Therapy in Sport
JF - Physical Therapy in Sport
ER -