ArticleInternational journal of environmental research and public health2021
'The Little Engine That Could': A Qualitative Study of Medical Service Access and Effectiveness among Adolescent Athletics Athletes Competing at the Highest International Level.
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- Understanding significant experiences of adolescent athletes' participation in competitive sports life: a systematic review.Frontiers in sports and active living · 2025Pooled it
- "It's never just one thing": understanding risk factors for sports injuries in track and field.BMC sports science, medicine & rehabilitation · 2026Article
- Health Systems in High-Performance Sport: Key Functions to Protect Health and Optimize Performance in Elite Athletes.Sports medicine (Auckland, N.Z.) · 2023Article
- Injury acknowledgement by reduction of sports load in world-leading athletics (track and field) athletes varies with their musculoskeletal health literacy and the socioeconomic environment.British journal of sports medicine · 2023Article
- Sports Physiology in Adolescent Track-and-Field Athletes: A Narrative Review.Open access journal of sports medicine · 2023Review
- Behavioral activation / inhibition systems and lifestyle as predictors of mental disorders in adolescent athletes during Covid19 pandemic.BMC public health · 2022Article
- 'I always considered I needed injury prevention to become an elite athlete': the road to the Olympics from the athlete and staff perspective.BMJ open sport & exercise medicine · 2021Article
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Abstract
Little is known about provision of medical services to adolescents prior to participating in international top-level sports. This study aimed to investigate experiences of medical service provision among high-level adolescent athletics (track and field) athletes from three continents. A thematic narrative analysis was applied to data collected from 14 athletes by semi-structured interviews. Although competing at the highest international level, these adolescent athletes had difficulties making sense of symptoms of ill health, especially on their own. With increasing exercise loads, the athletes' medical support needs had extended beyond the capacity of parents and local communities. As there was no organized transfer of the responsibility for medical support to sports organizations, the athletes often had to manage their health problems by themselves. There were major variations among the adolescent athletes with regards to medical service access and quality. The services used ranged from sophisticated computer-assisted biomechanical analyses to traditional healers. Decreased exercise load was the common sports injury treatment. The results of this study demonstrate how the ethical standards underpinning youth sports as well as the equal provision of medical services to adolescents are challenged across the world. Further research on health service provision to adolescent top-level athletes is warranted.
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