ArticleSports medicine (Auckland, N.Z.)2017
A Kinetic Model Describing Injury-Burden in Team Sports.
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- Differences in Injury Incidence Between Player Positions Across All Rugby Formats-A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Scandinavian journal of medicine & science in sports · 2025Pooled it
- The South African Rugby Injury and Illness Surveillance and Prevention Project (SARIISPP): SARU Boys' Youth Week Injury Surveillance Report, 2024.South African journal of sports medicine · 2026Article
- Epidemiology of rugby injuries: a systematic review and meta-analysis.BMJ open sport & exercise medicine · 2026Article
- The South African Rugby Injury and Illness Surveillance and Prevention Project (SARIISPP): The Currie Cup Premiership Competition Injury Surveillance Report, 2024.South African journal of sports medicine · 2026Article
- The South African Rugby Injury and Illness Surveillance and Prevention Project (SARIISPP): SARU Boys' Youth Week Injury Surveillance Report, 2023.South African journal of sports medicine · 2025Article
- The South African Rugby Injury and Illness Surveillance and Prevention Project (SARIISPP): The Currie Cup Premiership Competition Injury Surveillance Report, 2023.South African journal of sports medicine · 2025Article
- Implementing exposure limits for players in contact team sports: review of principles and practices.Frontiers in sports and active living · 2025Review
- The South African Rugby Injury and Illness Surveillance and Prevention Project (SARIISPP): SARU Girls' Youth Week Injury Surveillance Report 2023.South African journal of sports medicine · 2025Article
- The South African Rugby Injury and Illness Surveillance and Prevention Project (SARIISPP): SARU Girls' Youth Week Injury Surveillance Report, 2022.South African journal of sports medicine · 2024Article
- SA Rugby Injury and Illness Surveillance and Prevention Project (SARIISPP): The Currie Cup Premiership Competition Injury Surveillance Report, 2022.South African journal of sports medicine · 2023Article
- Injury Risk (Burden), Risk Matrices and Risk Contours in Team Sports: A Review of Principles, Practices and Problems.Sports medicine (Auckland, N.Z.) · 2018Review
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Abstract
backgroundInjuries in team sports are normally characterised by the incidence, severity, and location and type of injuries sustained: these measures, however, do not provide an insight into the variable injury-burden experienced during a season. Injury burden varies according to the team's match and training loads, the rate at which injuries are sustained and the time taken for these injuries to resolve. At the present time, this time-based variation of injury burden has not been modelled.
objectivesTo develop a kinetic model describing the time-based injury burden experienced by teams in elite team sports and to demonstrate the model's utility.
methodsRates of injury were quantified using a large eight-season database of rugby injuries (5253) and exposure (60,085 player-match-hours) in English professional rugby. Rates of recovery from injury were quantified using time-to-recovery analysis of the injuries.
resultsThe kinetic model proposed for predicting a team's time-based injury burden is based on a composite rate equation developed from the incidence of injury, a first-order rate of recovery from injury and the team's playing load. The utility of the model was demonstrated by examining common scenarios encountered in elite rugby.
conclusionsThe kinetic model developed describes and predicts the variable injury-burden arising from match play during a season of rugby union based on the incidence of match injuries, the rate of recovery from injury and the playing load. The model is equally applicable to other team sports and other scenarios.
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