Association of Training and Game Loads to Injury Risk in Junior Male Elite Ice Hockey Players : A Prospective Cohort Study

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Background: Training and game loads are potential risk factors of injury in junior elite ice hockey, but the association of training and game loads to injuries is unknown.

Purpose: To investigate the association of chronic training and game loads to injury risk in junior male elite ice hockey players.

Study Design: Cohort study; Level of evidence, 2.

Methods: In this prospective cohort study, we monitored all health problems among 159 male junior ice hockey players (mean age, 16 years; range, 15-19 years) at sports-specific high schools during the 2018-2019 school year. Players reported their health problems every week using the Oslo Sports Trauma Research Center Overuse Questionnaire on Health Problems (OSTRC-H2). The number of training sessions and games was reported for 33 weeks. We calculated the previous 2-week difference in training/game loads as well as the cumulative training/game loads of the previous 2, 3, 4, and 6 weeks and explored potential associations between training/game loads and injury risk using mixed-effects logistic regression.

Results: The players reported 133 acute injuries, 75 overuse injuries, and 162 illnesses in total, and an average of 8.8 (SD ±3.9) training sessions and 0.9 (SD ± 1.1) games per week. We found no association between the difference of the two previous weeks or the previous 2- 3- and 4-week cumulative, training or game load and acute injuries, nor the difference of the two previous weeks, or the previous 4- and 6-week cumulative, training or game load and overuse injuries (OR, ∼1.0; P > .05 in all models).

Conclusion: In the current study of junior elite ice hockey players, there was no evidence of an association between cumulative exposure to training/game loads and injury risk.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2022

Erschienen:

2022

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:10

Enthalten in:

Orthopaedic journal of sports medicine - 10(2022), 10 vom: 01. Okt., Seite 23259671221129646

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Nordstrøm, Anine [VerfasserIn]
Bahr, Roald [VerfasserIn]
Bache-Mathiesen, Lena K [VerfasserIn]
Clarsen, Ben [VerfasserIn]
Talsnes, Ove [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Adolescent injuries
Epidemiology
Ice hockey
Injury prevention
Journal Article
Junior injuries
Load
Overuse injuries

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Date Revised 08.11.2022

published: Electronic-eCollection

Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE

doi:

10.1177/23259671221129646

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM348522193