Most published manuscripts on sports injury prevention do not assess intervention effectiveness, and research on regulatory change is underrepresented.
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Limits evidence-based injury prevention recommendations; leaves open the need for rigorous effectiveness and implementation research.
Only 492 of 11 859 publications actually assessed the effectiveness of sports injury prevention interventions or their implementation. Research in the area of regulatory change is underrepresented and might represent one of the greatest opportunities to prevent injury.
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Klügl et al. (2010) studied this question.
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