Key result
Orthopaedic physicians play a crucial role in injury surveillance, periodic health evaluations, and improving sport-specific injury prevention protocols for athletes in the Olympic Games.
Why the study?
Athletes in the Olympic Games endure injuries that can lead to chronic musculoskeletal conditions, prompting efforts to enhance injury prevention and reduce reinjury risk.
Orthopaedic physicians play a key role in implementing injury surveillance and prevention protocols to reduce injury risk among Olympic athletes.
In training for and performing in the sporting competitions of the Olympic Games, athletes endure a variety of injuries that can lead to the development of a chronic musculoskeletal condition. Injury surveillance studies are in place for each event to collect epidemiological data in an attempt to enhance injury prevention for future Winter and Summer Olympic Games. Periodic health evaluations also are used to screen for injuries and monitor athletes' health in order to take measures to reduce the risk of reinjury. Orthopaedic physicians work to improve sport-specific injury prevention protocols to create a safe environment for competition and ultimately reduce the occurrence of injuries throughout the Olympic Games.
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Kennedy et al. (2020) conducted an editorial in Sports injuries in Olympic athletes. Orthopaedic physicians play a crucial role in injury surveillance, periodic health evaluations, and improving sport-specific injury prevention protocols for athletes in the Olympic Games.
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