Amsterdam Collaboration on Health & Safety in Sports, Department of Public and Occupational Health, Amsterdam UMC - Locatie VUMC, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Amsterdam Collaboration on Health & Safety in Sports, Department of Public and Occupational Health, Amsterdam UMC - Locatie VUMC, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Br J Sports Med. 2020 Jul;54(14):871-877. doi: 10.1136/bjsports-2019-100773. Epub 2019 Aug 9.
To explore how sports injury prevention takes place in elite sport practice and to describe the perspectives of athletes, coaches and physiotherapists regarding the most critical factors that help prevent injury in the elite sports context.
Qualitative study. Semistructured interviews with 19 international level athletes, coaches and physiotherapists, from different Olympic sports. Interviews were transcribed verbatim and analysed using comparative data analysis based on Grounded Theory.
The participants perceived injury risk as an inherent part of elite sports, because athletes try to enhance performance by pushing their limits. Participants described injury prevention as a learning process that changed over time, based on their sports experience and the injuries that they had sustained along their career. Communication among the athletes, coaches and physiotherapists was described as a key component of the injury prevention process. Study participants emphasised the relevance of teamwork and shared responsibility. Performance was presented as the core of the athlete's daily practice, indicating that injury prevention can be a means to that end but is not a goal in itself for this community.
Participants perceive injury prevention as part of elite sports and thus embrace the need for injury prevention. Injury prevention strategies in elite sports were described as a learning process, following the dynamic nature of training for maximal performance. Performance is the participants' main goal.
探讨运动损伤预防在精英运动实践中的实施情况，并描述运动员、教练和物理治疗师对有助于预防精英运动中损伤的最关键因素的看法。
定性研究。对来自不同奥运项目的 19 名国际级运动员、教练和物理治疗师进行半结构化访谈。访谈内容逐字转录，并使用基于扎根理论的比较数据分析进行分析。
参与者认为损伤风险是精英运动的固有部分，因为运动员试图通过突破极限来提高表现。参与者将损伤预防描述为一个随着时间推移而变化的学习过程，这基于他们的运动经验和在职业生涯中所遭受的损伤。运动员、教练和物理治疗师之间的沟通被描述为损伤预防过程的关键组成部分。研究参与者强调了团队合作和共同责任的重要性。表现被呈现为运动员日常训练的核心，表明损伤预防可以是达到这一目标的手段，但对于这个群体来说并不是目的本身。
参与者将损伤预防视为精英运动的一部分，因此接受损伤预防的必要性。精英运动中的损伤预防策略被描述为一个学习过程，遵循最大性能训练的动态性质。表现是参与者的主要目标。
