ReviewSports medicine (Auckland, N.Z.)2018
Context Matters: Revisiting the First Step of the 'Sequence of Prevention' of Sports Injuries.
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92 citing papers in PubMed, 5 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
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- When evidence fails in real life: Rethinking sports injury rehabilitation and prevention.Brazilian journal of physical therapy · 2026Review
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- A Holistic Ecological Approach to Injury Prevention and Management in Youth Sport: A Scoping Review.Scandinavian journal of medicine & science in sports · 2026Article
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- Behaving Differently! Why Don't we Consider Different Research Questions to Integrate Behavioural Sciences into Sports Injury Prevention Research? A Methodological Rationale.Sports medicine - open · 2026Article
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- Implementing sports injury prevention programmes during and beyond effectiveness trials: a mixed methodologies study.BMJ open sport & exercise medicine · 2026Article
- Putting sport injury prevention into practice: a qualitative study in a small Western European high-income country.BMJ open sport & exercise medicine · 2026Article
- Distal-to-proximal progression of apophyseal injuries with age in male youth academy footballers: a two-season prospective cohort study of 16,024 player-seasons.British journal of sports medicine · 2025Article
- Polish language questionnaires for monitoring athletes' health and classifying reported symptoms.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Padel related injuries: prevalence and characteristics in chilean amateur players - a cross sectional analytic study.BMC sports science, medicine & rehabilitation · 2025Article
- The Consistency of Primary, Secondary and Tertiary Prevention Definitions in the Context of Musculoskeletal Sports Injuries: A Rapid Review and Critical Exploration of Common Terms of Usage.Sports medicine - open · 2025Review
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Abstract
It is possible to prevent sports injuries. Unfortunately, the demonstrated efficacy and effectiveness of injury prevention approaches are not translated into lasting real-world effects. Contemporary views in sports medicine and injury prevention suggest that sports injuries are 'complex' phenomena. If the problem we aim to prevent is complex, then the first step in the 'sequence of prevention' that defines the 'injury problem' already needs to have considered this. The purpose of this paper is to revisit the first step of the 'sequence of prevention', and to explore new perspectives that acknowledge the complexity of the sports injury problem. First, this paper provides a retrospective of the 'sequence of prevention', acknowledging contemporary views on sports injuries and their prevention. Thereafter, from the perspective of the socioecological model, we demonstrate the need for taking into account the complex nature of sports injuries in the first step. Finally, we propose an alternative approach to explore and understand injury context through qualitative research methods. A better understanding of the injury problem in context will guide more context-sensitive studies, thus providing a new perspective for sports injury prevention research.
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