Youth have very high participation rates in sport, and sport is the leading cause of youth injury in many countries. Canadian studies report that 30–40% of youth (ages 11–18 years) seek medical attention for a sport injury annually. 7 While physical activity prevents all-cause morbidity associated with a sedentary lifestyle, injuries can become a barrier to physical activity. Injury prevention ...

OBJECTIVES To determine the recent incidence of eye injury due to sport in Scotland, identify any trend, and establish which sports are responsible for most injury? The type of injury and final visual outcome is also evaluated. METHODS A prospective observational study of ocular injuries sustained during sport was performed over a one year period. Only patients requiring hospital admission we...

1 Impairment-based evaluation has, until recently, been the mainstay of orthopaedic 2 research in anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) reconstruction. However, participation-3 based outcomes, in particular returning to sport, have lately garnered increased 4 research attention. This is important because returning to sport is typically a main 5 concern of injured athletes. Recent meta-analyses have ...

Objectives. To examine body mass index (BMI) and waist circumference (WC) as risk factors for sport injury in adolescents. Design. A secondary analysis of prospectively collected data from a pilot cluster randomized controlled trial. Methods. Adolescents (n = 1,040) at the ages of 11-15 years from two Calgary junior high schools were included. BMI (kg/m(2)) and WC (cm) were measured from direct...

BACKGROUND Most injuries in school occur during sport. OBJECTIVES To explore the impact of sports injury in supervised school sport. METHOD A prospective study of sports injury in children of secondary school age presenting to the accident and emergency department. Each patient was identified on registration, matched with medical records after discharge, and contacted later by telephone to ...

Participation in sporting activities carries an injury risk. Conversely, the increased awareness that physical inactivity is a major risk factor for disease has led government agencies and the medical community to encourage increased levels of physical activity. Many people will achieve this through participation in sport. Injury inevitably leads to a reduction in participation on a temporary o...

Objectives: Two studies employed the trans-contextual model (TCM) to understand the relationships between sport motivation, treatment motivation, and autonomy support. Study 1 tested TCM among recreational athletes, while Study 2 examined the effects of causality orientations and autonomy support from coaches in the TCM among professional athletes. Methods: In Study 1, recreational athletes (N ...

The accurate measurement of sport exposure time and injury occurrence is key to effective injury prevention and management. Current measures are limited by their inability to identify all types of sport-related injury, narrow scope of injury information, or lack the perspective of the injured athlete. The aims of the study were to evaluate the proportion of injuries and the agreement between sp...

in the past 10 years, the amount of research conducted on psychological aspects of sport injury has been increasing. the purpose of this study was to predict the burnout according to the self-determined motivation in iranian elite handball players before and after the injury. the subjects were 28 injured elite handball players who did not participate in competitions for 4 weeks due to their inj...

BACKGROUND Fifteen percent of the world's population live with disability, and many of these individuals choose to play sport. There are barriers to sport participation for athletes with disability and sports injury can greatly impact on daily life, which makes sports injury prevention additionally important. OBJECTIVE The purpose of this review is to systematically review the definitions, me...