Why the study?
As CrossFit becomes more popular, monitoring the safety of its practitioners is important.
CrossFit practitioners experience an injury prevalence of 33.3%, highlighting the need for safety monitoring and targeted injury prevention strategies.
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Supports safety monitoring in CrossFit; leaves open optimal prevention strategies pending prospective data.
As CrossFit becomes more popular, it is important to monitor the safety of its practitioners. Further studies are needed to explore how to lower this injury prevalence of 33.3%. Areas to focus on include factors that have caused the regional (international vs US states) differences, level of expertise/experience differences (advanced level vs intermediate and beginner levels), and stretching routine modifications.
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Alekseyev et al. (2020) studied this question.
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