Key result
Among 212 young high-competitive judo athletes, 83% reported at least one injury, with increasing age, the need to lose weight, and higher training loads identified as significant risk factors.
Cohort (n=212)
In young high-level judo athletes, increasing age, the need to lose weight, and higher training loads are significant risk factors for injuries, which predominantly affect the limbs during training and defense movements.
Risk factor associations in young judo athletes support monitoring; leaves open prospective prevention trials before practice change.
Background: High competitive level judo practice from a very young age, may lead to an increasing risk of injury.The aim of this study is to identify injury risk factors in a young high-level judo population to develop future specific strategies for injury prevention.Methods: An individual questionnaire was applied by physicians to cadet and junior athletes that competed in international judo tournaments in 2014.Statistical inferential analysis was performed to identify the major injury risk factors and injury patterns in these ages.Results: 212 athletes from 13 different countries (53% portuguese) answered the questionnaire.Male predominance was found, and a mean age of 16,8 ±1,5 years with 9,7±3,1years of judo practice.We found 347 injuries, with 83% of the athletes reporting at least one injury.The majority of injuries occurred to the limbs (85%) during training period (71%), in the throwing phase (87,6%), as a consequence of direct contact (72%) and with articular involvement (62%).Sprain was the most common type (36%) and shoulder the most specific segment affected (25%) with an occurrence twice as high during defense movements [p=0,018].Injury occurrence was associated with training load (p=0,001), whilst the number of injuries with the age [p=0,005], need to lose weight (p=0,007) and training load (0,001).Conclusions: Increasing age, need to lose weight and training load were identified as injury risk factors for these ages.We also verified that shoulder injuries are significantly more frequent during defense movements, being these ones that led to more severe injuries
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Marcos Carvalho (2018) conducted a cohort in Sports injuries (n=212). High competitive level judo practice was evaluated on Occurrence of at least one injury. Among 212 young high-competitive judo athletes, 83% reported at least one injury, with increasing age, the need to lose weight, and higher training loads identified as significant risk factors.
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