Maximising individualisation of sports injury risk reduction approach to reach success

Pascal Edouard (1, 2, 3) , Benjamin Caumeil (4) , Evert Verhagen (5) , Gaël Guilhem (4) , Alexis Ruffault (4, 6)

1 Sports Medicine Unit, Department of Clinical and Exercise Physiology, University Hospital of Saint-Étienne
2 European Athletics Medical & Anti Doping Commission, European Athletics Association (EAA)
3 LIBM - Laboratoire Interuniversitaire de Biologie de la Motricité
4 SEP (EA7370) - French Institute of Sport (INSEP), Laboratory Sport, Expertise and Performance (EA7370)
5 Amsterdam Collaboration on Health & Safety in Sports, Department of Public and Occupational Health, Amsterdam Movement Sciences, Amsterdam UMC, University Medical Centers – Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam,
6 Unité de Recherche Interfacultaire Santé et Société (URiSS), University of Liège

Highlights :
- To individualise injury risk reduction measures could help to better match athlete's individual characteristics and should thus improve their effectiveness.
- To individualise injury risk reduction measures could help to improve athlete adherence into such measures and consequently their effectiveness.
- This maximised individualised approach is proposed to be used whatever the sport (i.e., individual and teams sports) in both scientific studies and real-world settings, with an end-user centred approach (especially athlete-centred approach) and a co-construction of the injury risk reduction measures with all stakeholders.

Mots clés: End-user; implementation; individualisation; individual subject; injury risk

Domaines: Sport; Santé du sportif

Pascal Edouard, Benjamin Caumeil, Evert Verhagen, Gaël Guilhem, Alexis Ruffault. Maximising individualisation of sports injury risk reduction approach to reach success. Revista Brasileira de Fisioterapia, 2022, 26 (3), pp.100394. ⟨10.1016/j.bjpt.2022.100394⟩. ⟨hal-03794462⟩