Why the study?
Following the IOC standard methods for recording and reporting sport injury and illness data, sport-specific recommendations were needed for tennis.
This consensus statement provides standardized, tennis-specific methods for recording and reporting epidemiological data on injury and illness to improve athlete health monitoring.
Standardizes tennis injury surveillance for better athlete health monitoring; extends IOC consensus to able-bodied and wheelchair players.
The IOC has proposed standard methods for recording and reporting of data for injury and illness in sport. The IOC consensus statement authors anticipated that sport-specific statements would provide further recommendations. This statement is the tennis-specific extension of the partner IOC statement. The International Tennis Federation Sport Science and Medicine Committee, in collaboration with selected external experts, met in June 2019 to consider athlete health monitoring issues specific to tennis. Once the IOC consensus statement was finalised, the tennis-specific consensus was drafted and agreed on by the members over three iterations. Compared with the IOC consensus statement, the tennis consensus contains tennis-specific information on injury mechanism, mode of onset, injury classification, injury duration, capturing and reporting exposure, reporting risk and study population. Our recommendations apply to able-bodied as well as wheelchair tennis players. Where applicable, specific recommendations are made for wheelchair tennis.
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Verhagen et al. (2020) studied Tennis injury and illness. Tennis-specific consensus statement was evaluated. A tennis-specific extension of the IOC consensus statement was developed to provide recommendations on injury mechanism, classification, and exposure reporting for able-bodied and wheelchair players.
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