Improving Performance and Preventing Sports Injuries - The Role of Athlete Monitoring
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The document discusses the growing problem of sports injuries among youth athletes and proposes that most overuse injuries and burnout can be prevented through individualized monitoring of training load, fatigue, stress, and recovery. It notes that while coaches want to prevent injuries, many do not have enough time for prevention. Tools like AthleteMonitoring.com aim to help by collecting subjective athlete data and providing real-time feedback to coaches so they can optimize training loads and reduce injuries while improving performance. Preventing even 15% of injuries could save billions annually.
Improving Performance and Preventing Sports Injuries - The Role of Athlete Monitoring
- 1. Improving Performance and Preventing Sports Injuries The Role of Athlete Monitoring ©2015, FITSTATS Technologies, Inc. ‘More than 50% of all sports injuries are preventable’ U.S. Center for Disease Control
- 2. ©2015, FITSTATS Technologies, Inc. Sports Injuries are EXPLODING ‘Sports injuries have become an epidemic’ Champ L. Baker Jr., MD, FACS, Hughston Clinic in Columbus, Georgia 2 • “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
- 3. ©2015, FITSTATS Technologies, Inc. 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.aspx 3http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15502559 3
- 4. ©2015, FITSTATS Technologies, Inc. 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 4
- 5. ©2015, FITSTATS Technologies, Inc. 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 2 • “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
- 6. Monitoring Training and Well-Being is CRITICAL to Success. This is WHY.
- 7. ©2015, FITSTATS Technologies, Inc. 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 5
- 8. ©2015, FITSTATS Technologies, Inc. Training Response is INDIVIDUAL Adapted from Foster C. Physiological Perspectives in Speed Skating, 1996 70 75 80 85 90 95 100 105 The Individual Load - Performance Relationship Undertraining OvertrainingOptimum Zone OverreachingTop Performance Performance Load The Top Performance Threshold is individual and changes regularly, based on: • sport and non-sport stressors • fatigue • sleep • caloric intake • hydration, etc. 7
- 9. ©2015, FITSTATS Technologies, Inc. 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 8
- 10. ©2015, FITSTATS Technologies, Inc. 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 9
- 11. ©2015, FITSTATS Technologies, Inc. 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 1 Fewer injuries, overtraining, infections, burnout 2 Less fluctuation in performance readiness3 Improved coach-athlete relationship4 Better team-synergy 5 Healthier, more enjoyable competitive sports experience for the athletes 6 10
- 12. This is WHY We have created AthleteMonitoring.com Athlete Enters Well-being questionnaire Complex Data is Transformed into Meaningful Information 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 11 Post-session feedback
- 13. ©2015, FITSTATS Technologies, Inc. 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 maximizing recovery, health and performance 12