Sports-related injuries; Injury prevention; Professional practice
Abstract :
[en] Purpose Evaluate the current state of sports injury prevention perception, knowledge and practice among sports medicine professionals located in Western Europe and involved in injury prevention. Methods Members of two different sports medicine organizations (GOTS and ReFORM) were invited to complete a webbased questionnaire (in German and in French, respectively) addressing perception, knowledge and implementation of sports injury prevention through 22 questions. Results 766 participants from a dozen of countries completed the survey. Among them, 43% were surgeons, 23% sport physicians and 18% physiotherapists working mainly in France (38%), Germany (23%) and Belgium (10%). The sample rated the importance of injury prevention as "high" or "very high" in a majority of cases (91%), but only 54% reported to be aware of specific injury prevention programmes. The French-speaking world was characterized by lower levels of reported knowledge, unfamiliarity with existing prevention programmes and less weekly time spent on prevention as compared to their German-speaking counterparts. Injury prevention barriers reported by the respondents included mainly insufficient expertise, absence of staff support from sports organizations and lack of time. Conclusion There is a lack of awareness regarding injury prevention concepts among sports medicine professionals of the European French-and German-speaking world. This gap varied according to the professional occupation and working country. Relevant future paths for improvement include specific efforts to build awareness around sports injury prevention. Level of evidence Level IV.
Disciplines :
Orthopedics, rehabilitation & sports medicine
Author, co-author :
Tischer, Thomas
Martens, Géraldine ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Département des sciences de la motricité ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Evaluation-Revalidation (EVAREVA) ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Département des sciences de la motricité > Kinésithérapie générale et réadaptation ; Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Liège - CHU > > Service de médecine de l'appareil locomoteur
Cabri, Jan
Thoreux, Patricia
Tscholl, Philippe
Leclerc, Suzanne
Le Garrec, Sébastien
Delvaux, François ; Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Liège - CHU ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Département des sciences de la motricité ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Unités de recherche interfacultaires > Motion analysis research unit (MARU)
Croisier, Jean-Louis ; Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Liège - CHU > > Service de médecine de l'appareil locomoteur ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Département des sciences de la motricité > Kinésithérapie générale et réadaptation ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Département des sciences de la motricité ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Unités de recherche interfacultaires > Motion analysis research unit (MARU)
Kaux, Jean-François ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Département des sciences de la motricité > Médecine physique, réadaptation et traumatologie du sport ; Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Liège - CHU > > Service de médecine de l'appareil locomoteur ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Evaluation-Revalidation (EVAREVA)
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