Improving the reporting of tennis injuries: the use of workload data as the denominator?

In 2009, respected industry professionals suggested that tennis injuries be reported per 1000 player-hours rather than athletic exposures (such as 1000 matches) due to large variations in the time component of such exposures.1 This goes some way to addressing the lack of uniformity in tennis injury...

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Published inBritish journal of sports medicine Vol. 53; no. 16; pp. 1041 - 1042
Main Authors Reid, Machar, Cormack, Stuart J, Duffield, Rob, Kovalchik, Stephanie, Crespo, Miguel, Pluim, Babette, Gescheit, Danielle T
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published England BMJ Publishing Group LTD 01.08.2019
Subjects
Epidemiology
Researchers
Sports injuries
Tennis
Workloads
Australia
epidemiology
injury
sport
overuse
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Summary:In 2009, respected industry professionals suggested that tennis injuries be reported per 1000 player-hours rather than athletic exposures (such as 1000 matches) due to large variations in the time component of such exposures.1 This goes some way to addressing the lack of uniformity in tennis injury data, which McCurdie et al 2 have identified as the most significant challenge to understanding injury in elite tennis. [...]while match duration may hold some value in comparing gross injury trends between populations or represent the most pragmatic injury exposure measure for many junior or recreational tennis populations (where technology is constrained), it has limited utility in describing injury relative to the physical demands of professional tennis. [...]it may be that neither exposure measure adequately captures the intensity of the movement or stroke, which logically relates to joint loading and deserves further enquiry.
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ISSN:0306-3674
1473-0480
DOI:10.1136/bjsports-2017-098625