Towards the reduction of injury and illness in athletes: defining our research priorities

Caroline F Finch¹, Roald Bahr^{2

3}, Jonathan A Drezner⁴, Jiri Dvorak⁵, Lars Engebretsen², Timothy Hewett⁶, Astrid Junge^{5

7}, Karim M Khan⁸, Domhnall MacAuley⁹, Gordon O Matheson¹⁰, Paul McCrory^{1

11}, Evert Verhagen¹²

Affiliations

¹ Australian Collaboration for Research into Injury in Sport and its Prevention (ACRISP), Federation University Australia, Ballarat, Victoria, Australia.
² Department of Sports Medicine, Norwegian School of Sport Sciences, Oslo Sports Trauma Research Center, Oslo, Norway.
³ Aspetar Orthopaedic and Sports Medicine Hospital, Doha, Qatar.
⁴ Department of Family Medicine, Center for Sports Cardiology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA.
⁵ Department of Neurology, Schulthess Clinic Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
⁶ Mayo Clinic Biomechanics Laboratories and Sports Medicine Center, Departments of Orthopedics, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation and Physiology & Biomedical Engineering, Mayo Clinic, Rochester and Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.
⁷ Medical School Hamburg (MSH), Germany.
⁸ Department of Family Practice, University of British Columbia, Centre for Mobility and Health, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
⁹ Faculty of Life and Health Studies, University of Ulster, Jordanstown, UK.
¹⁰ Division of Sports Medicine, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, School of Medicine and Human Biology Program, School of Humanities and Sciences, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA.
¹¹ Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
¹² Department of Public and Occupational Health, Amsterdam Collaboration on Health and Safety in Sports, EMGO+ Institute for Health and Care Research, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

PMID: 28003237
DOI: 10.1136/bjsports-2016-097042

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Towards the reduction of injury and illness in athletes: defining our research priorities

Caroline F Finch et al. Br J Sports Med. 2017 Aug.

. 2017 Aug;51(16):1178-1182.

doi: 10.1136/bjsports-2016-097042. Epub 2016 Dec 21.

Authors

Affiliations

¹ Australian Collaboration for Research into Injury in Sport and its Prevention (ACRISP), Federation University Australia, Ballarat, Victoria, Australia.
² Department of Sports Medicine, Norwegian School of Sport Sciences, Oslo Sports Trauma Research Center, Oslo, Norway.
³ Aspetar Orthopaedic and Sports Medicine Hospital, Doha, Qatar.
⁴ Department of Family Medicine, Center for Sports Cardiology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA.
⁵ Department of Neurology, Schulthess Clinic Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
⁶ Mayo Clinic Biomechanics Laboratories and Sports Medicine Center, Departments of Orthopedics, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation and Physiology & Biomedical Engineering, Mayo Clinic, Rochester and Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.
⁷ Medical School Hamburg (MSH), Germany.
⁸ Department of Family Practice, University of British Columbia, Centre for Mobility and Health, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
⁹ Faculty of Life and Health Studies, University of Ulster, Jordanstown, UK.
¹⁰ Division of Sports Medicine, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, School of Medicine and Human Biology Program, School of Humanities and Sciences, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA.
¹¹ Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
¹² Department of Public and Occupational Health, Amsterdam Collaboration on Health and Safety in Sports, EMGO+ Institute for Health and Care Research, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

PMID: 28003237
DOI: 10.1136/bjsports-2016-097042

No abstract available

Keywords: Consensus; Health promotion; Injury prevention; Research; Sports and exercise medicine.

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Competing interests: None declared.

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