improving performance and preventing sports injuries - the role of athlete monitoring
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Improving Performance and Preventing
Sports Injuries
The Role of Athlete Monitoring
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‘More than 50% of all sports injuries are preventable’U.S. Center for Disease Control
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Sports Injuries are EXPLODING
‘Sports injuries have become an epidemic’Champ L. Baker Jr., MD, FACS, Hughston Clinic in Columbus, Georgia
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• “Injuries exploding as youths focus on one sport” sfgate.com, Oct 18, 2013
• “1.35 million youths a year have serious sports injuries” USA Today, Aug 6, 2013
• “Young athletes risk back injury by playing too much” NPR News, Feb 03, 2014
• “Youth sport injuries may lead to adult brain disease” abcnews.go.com, Dec 20, 2013
• “Overexposure injuries in youth sports on the rise” WTSP, Oct 1, 2013
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It is Becoming an EPIDEMIC
In the U.S., more than 5.5 million children and adolescents receive medical treatment for sports injuries every year
Every 25 seconds, a young athlete suffers a sports injury severe enough to go to the emergency room (Safe Kids Worldwide, 2013)
High school athletes account for an estimated 500,000 doctor visits and 30,000 hospitalizations each year (stopsportsinjuries.org)
Youth sports-related injuries have increased by 500% to 700% in the last 10 years
*http://www.armstrongmccready.ca**Orthopedics Today, May 2010***http://www.stopsportsinjuries.org/media/statistics.aspx3http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15502559
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It is Becoming an EPIDEMIC
• 77% of parents express concern over children’s
sports injury risk*
• 47% of coaches say they cannot focus enough on
injury prevention*
• Overtraining, concussion and knee injury = 82,260
Google searches/month (U.S. only)**
*Coaching Our Kids to Fewer Injuries: A Report on Youth Sports Safety (2012) - safekids.org, *Google.com
‘The cost of youth sports injuries in the US is probably in the hundreds of billions of dollars’Youth Sports Injury Prevention: Suggestions from the US for Japan, Aaron L.Miller, PhD, Stanford University, 2012
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Costs are ENORMOUS
‘Injuries that result in missed matches and decreased match availability, impact negatively team performance’
The 11-year follow-up of the UEFA Champions League injury study, 2013
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• “Injuries are the fourth-largest cost to US sports franchises, after payroll, facilities and marketing”
sportsbusinessdaily.com, Oct 18, 2013
• “In the US, anterior cruciate ligament ruptures costs about $3·6 billion every year”
USA Today, Aug 6, 2013
• “In Canada, cost of game-related injuries amounts to US $218 million per NHL season”
The Globe and Mail, Jan 20 2014
• “In Switzerland, football injuries cost 145
million Swiss francs each year ”
abcnews.go.com, Dec 20, 2013
• “In Australia, sport injuries cost $2 billion per year”
news.com.au, 2011
Monitoring Training and Well-Being isCRITICAL to Success.
This is WHY.
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Injuries ARE NOT Just Bad Luck
Most overuse injuries, many viral infections and burnouts are linked to overtraining, an individual "training-competition > recovery imbalance“ (Lehmann MJ, 1997)
Fatigue contributes directly to anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injuries (McLean, 2009)
Player's average playing time per game is a significant predictor of concussion (Stevens & Smith, 2008)
Unusual increase in training load during the week prior to injury compared to that of the 4 preceding weeks (Rogalski, 2013)
‘Overuse injuries almost always involve training errors’
Dr. Lyle J. Micheli Director, Division of Sports Medicine at Children’s Hospital Boston
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Training Response is INDIVIDUAL
Adapted from Foster C. Physiological Perspectives in
Speed Skating, 1996
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The Individual Load - Performance Relationship
Undertraining OvertrainingOptimum Zone
OverreachingTop Performance
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Load
The Top Performance
Threshold is individual
and changes
regularly, based on:
• sport and non-sport
stressors
• fatigue
• sleep
• caloric intake
• hydration, etc.
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The Risk of INJURY is Multifactorial
RISK of poor
performance and injury
Training
schedule
Training
Response
Fatigue
and
stress
Competition
schedules
Other
factors
Previous
injuries
Training Schedule
No rest day
number of ‘hard days’ per week
week-to-week training change in load
sport specialization before puberty
Competition schedule
• Game-to-training schedule
• playing time
• lack of recovery during tournaments
• over-scheduling, etc.
Other factors
(type of sport, general health,
age , etc.
Training Response
Excessive training load
high monotony and strain
lack of enjoyment
perceived exertion
Fatigue and stress
Enjoyment
boredom
general rest and sleep
nutrition
travel
inadequate recovery and stress
Previous injuries
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We know the SOLUTIONS
• Identify the factors that are increasing the risk of
overtraining and preventable sports injuries
• Monitor training and competitive load and their
underlying factors (monotony, week-to-week
change, etc.)
• Monitor well-being, fatigue and recovery, stress and
their underlying factors (sleep, rest, wellbeing, etc.)
• Implement individualized strategies to optimize
training load and enhance recovery and rest
‘Optimizing training loads is already being adopted by professional sport. It is now time to translate similar strategies to community sport’
Caroline Finch, bmj.com, 2012
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We know the BENEFITS
Better identification of the individual training thresholds, the point at which the combination of sport-related and non-sport-related stressors are overwhelming the recovery ability
1Fewer injuries, overtraining, infections, burnout
2Less fluctuation in performance readiness3
Improved coach-athlete relationship 4
Better team-synergy5
Healthier, more enjoyable competitive sports experience for the athletes
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This is WHY We have created AthleteMonitoring.com
Athlete
Enters
Well-being questionnaire Complex Data is
Transformed into MeaningfulInformation
Coach receives
Immediate alerts
How to fix
advices
Complete access to
data
‘Subjective reporting of training load, perceived stress, and psychological mood states has been shown to be a reliable indicator of adaptation to training load and may prove to be more reliable than physiological tests.’ Robson-Ansley et al., Journal of Sports Sciences, 2009
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Post-session feedback
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Summary
A majority of sports injuries can be prevented by monitoring and individualizing training load and recovering strategies
Parents are concerned, many coaches don’t have enough time
Reducing preventable injuries by only 15% will result in billion of cost savings per year
Tools such as AthleteMonitoring.com can be used help to effectively implement a proactive, monitoring strategy and reduce the risk of injuries and overtraining while maximizingrecovery, health and performance
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