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. 2022 Jun 15;78(1):1756.
doi: 10.4102/sajp.v78i1.1756. eCollection 2022.

Injury surveillance in community cricket: A new inning for South Africa

Benita Olivier  1   2 , Oluchukwu L Obiora  1   2 , Candice MacMillan  1   2 , Caroline Finch  3
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Injury surveillance in community cricket: A new inning for South Africa

Benita Olivier et al. S Afr J Physiother. .

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Abstract

Published injury rates amongst elite and club-level youth cricketers highlight the need to implement injury risk-reducing strategies amongst the youth cricketing population. Data from sports injury surveillance systems are a prerequisite for the development and evaluation of strategies to reduce injury risk. Therefore, collecting injury surveillance data is a positive move towards reducing injuries in cricket. In South Africa, a systematic, standardised, evidence-informed injury surveillance system currently does not exist for community levels of play, namely, in cricket-playing high schools and cricket clubs. Although injury surveillance systems exist at elite levels, the obvious differences in elite versus community cricket settings mean that these systems cannot be implemented in their current form at community-level cricket. An innovative model is required to implement an injury surveillance system in community cricket.

Clinical implications: This article proposes and describes a new research-practice partnership model to implement a systematic, standardised, evidence-informed injury surveillance system at cricket-playing high schools or cricket clubs within South Africa. Once this model has been employed, database systems will need to be established to allow long-term data management and sharing.

Keywords: cricket; data management; injury prevention; injury risk reduction; injury surveillance; sports.

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The authors declare that they have no financial or personal relationships that may have inappropriately influenced them in writing this article.

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A proposed preliminary research–practice partnership model for the implementation of a systematic, standardised, evidence-informed injury surveillance system at cricket-playing high schools or cricket clubs.
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