Analyses of Helsinki 2012 European athletics championships injury and illness surveillance to discuss elite athletes risk factors

Clinical Journal of Sport Medicine

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 409-415

  Edouard, Pascal ^a,b,c   Depiesse, Frédéric ^c,d,e   Branco, Pedro ^e,f,g   Alonso, Juan Manuel ^g,h  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF SAINT ETIENNE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

^c Medical Commission   (France)

^d SERVICE DE PNEUMOLOGIE   (France)

^e European Athletics Medical and Anti Doping Commission European Athletics Association (EAA)   (Switzerland)

^f Portuguese Athletic Federation Medical Department   (Portugal)

^g International Association of Athletics Federations   (Monaco)

^h Royal Spanish Athletics Federation Real Federación Española de Atletismo   (Spain)

Author keywords

championships; epidemiology; injury illness surveillance; musculoskeletal injury; sports injury prevention; top level athletes; track and field

Indexed keywords

ACHILLES TENDON RUPTURE; ADULT; ANKLE INJURY; ANKLE SPRAIN; ARM INJURY; ARTICLE; ATHLETE; CLOTHING; CONTUSION; DIARRHEA; ELBOW INJURY; EUROPE; FEMALE; FOOT INJURY; GASTROENTERITIS; GROUPS BY AGE; HAMSTRING; HEAD AND NECK INJURY; HEALTH SURVEY; HEAT ACCLIMATIZATION; HIP INJURY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; KNEE INJURY; KNEE LIGAMENT INJURY; KNEE MENISCUS RUPTURE; LACERATION; LEG INJURY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MUSCLE CRAMP; MUSCLE INJURY; MUSCLE STRAIN; MUSCULOSKELETAL INJURY; PHYSICIAN; PHYSIOTHERAPIST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SEX DIFFERENCE; SKIN DEFECT; SPORT INJURY; STRESS FRACTURE; TENDINITIS; THIGH; THORAX INJURY; UPPER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; ADOLESCENT; AGE; ATHLETIC INJURIES; COHORT ANALYSIS; CUMULATIVE TRAUMA DISORDERS; FINLAND; INJURIES; LEG INJURIES; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SPRAINS AND STRAINS; TRACK AND FIELD; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; ATHLETIC INJURIES; COHORT STUDIES; CUMULATIVE TRAUMA DISORDERS; DIARRHEA; FEMALE; FINLAND; GASTROENTERITIS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LEG INJURIES; MALE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SEX FACTORS; SPRAINS AND STRAINS; TRACK AND FIELD; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84906939347     PISSN: 1050642X     EISSN: 15363724     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/JSM.0000000000000052     Document Type: Article

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