Trial reportInternational journal of environmental research and public health2021
Effect of an Unsupervised Exercises-Based Athletics Injury Prevention Programme on Injury Complaints Leading to Participation Restriction in Athletics: A Cluster-Randomised Controlled Trial.
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PREVATHLE: To Evaluate the Effectiveness of an Injury Prevention Program in Athletics
The impact of a multicomponent exercise program on athletic performance, physical parameters, and injury reduction in recreational runners: a randomized controlled trial.
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15 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Effect of adherence to exercise-based injury prevention programmes on the risk of sports injuries: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials.Injury prevention : journal of the International Society for Child and Adolescent Injury Prevention · 2026Pooled it
- Do Exercise-Based Prevention Programs Reduce Injury in Endurance Runners? A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Sports medicine (Auckland, N.Z.) · 2024Pooled it
- Efficacy of exercise interventions in injury prevention for track and field athletes: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials.BMC sports science, medicine & rehabilitation · 2025Article
- The Dose-Response Relationship of Exercise-Based Injury Prevention Programmes: Implications for Research and Practice.Sports medicine (Auckland, N.Z.) · 2025Article
- The 'vicious circle' of sports injuries: an analysis of 165 athletics (track and field) athletes over a 39-week follow-up using Markov chains.BMJ open sport & exercise medicine · 2025Article
- Association between the use of daily injury risk estimation feedback (I-REF) based on machine learning techniques and injuries in athletics (track and field): results of a prospective cohort study over an athletics season.BMJ open sport & exercise medicine · 2025Article
- Effect of an unsupervised multidomain intervention integrating education, exercises, psychological techniques and machine learning feedback, on injury risk reduction in athletics (track and field): protocol of a randomised controlled trial (I-ReductAI).BMJ open sport & exercise medicine · 2025Article
- Co-creation of injury prevention measures for competitive adolescent distance runners: knowledge, behavior, and needs of athletes and coaches enrolled on England Athletics' Youth Talent Programme.Annals of medicine · 2024Article
- How to optimise the fidelity of exercises in an unsupervised golf injury prevention programme? A pilot study.BMJ open sport & exercise medicine · 2024Article
- Athletes who have already experienced an injury are more prone to adhere to an injury risk reduction approach than those who do not: an online survey of 7870 French athletics (track and field) athletes.BMJ open sport & exercise medicine · 2024Article
- Educating and promoting athletes' health protection through infographics on injury and illness prevention during an international competition: a prospective study during the 2024 European Athletics Championships.BMJ open sport & exercise medicine · 2024Article
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- Risk factors for injury complaints leading to restricted participation in Athletics (Track and Field): a secondary analysis of data from 320 athletes over one season.BMJ open sport & exercise medicine · 2023Article
- The effectiveness of a golf injury prevention program (GRIPP intervention) compared to the usual warm-up in Dutch golfers: protocol design of a randomized controlled trial.BMC sports science, medicine & rehabilitation · 2022Article
- 'What does not kill us can make us stronger': can we use injury experience as an opportunity to help athletes and their teams engage in injury risk reduction?BMJ open sport & exercise medicine · 2022Article
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Abstract
objectiveTo test the efficacy of the Athletics Injury Prevention Programme (AIPP) to reduce the percentage of athletes presenting at least one injury complaint leading to participation restriction (ICPR) over an athletics season.
methodsDuring the 2017-2018 athletics season, we included in this cluster randomised controlled trial (ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT03307434) 840 athletes randomly assigned (randomisation unit: athletic clubs) to a control group (regular training) or to an intervention group (regular training plus the AIPP 2/week). Using a weekly online questionnaire, athletes reported the ICPR, training and competition exposures, and, for the intervention group, the compliance with the AIPP. The primary outcome was the percentage of athletes presenting at least one ICPR over the study follow-up.
resultsA total of 449 and 391 athletes were included in the intervention and control groups, respectively. From them, 68 (15.1%) and 100 (25.6%) athletes, respectively, provided 100% of the requested information during the follow-up (39 weeks). A total of 6 (8.8%) performed the AIPP 2/week or more. The proportion of athletes who had at least one ICPR over the follow-up period was similar in the intervention (64.7%) and control groups (65.0%), with adjusted odds ratios: 0.81 (95% CI 0.36 to 1.85). There were no between-group differences when comparing separately the subgroups corresponding with the different compliance levels.
conclusionThis cluster randomised controlled trial reported no efficacy of the AIPP. However, the overall response proportion and the compliance with the AIPP in the intervention group were low. In individual sports especially, efforts should be first made to improve the implementation and adoption of interventions.
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