Innovative Approaches to Sports Injury Prevention and Recovery
A special issue of Healthcare (ISSN 2227-9032).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 May 2026 | Viewed by 5
Special Issue Editor
Interests: physical activity; functional abilities; resistance training; neuromuscular adaptations; joint stability; aging
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Dear Colleagues,
Despite the persistent efforts that scientifically target health maintenance in physical activity, sports injuries continue to affect millions of athletes worldwide, with varying degrees of severity that can lead to short-term setbacks or long-term consequences. While there has been substantial focus on the effects of various clinical rehabilitation techniques, new insights into injury mechanisms, identification of risk factors, and prevention strategies are still needed.
We are pleased to invite you to contribute to the Special Issue of Healthcare, titled Innovative Approaches to Sports Injury Prevention and Recovery. This Special Issue aims to gather innovative methodologies, technologies, and findings that help understand sports injuries and their prevention strategies both in the clinical and in the sports fields. With sports injuries remaining a global concern across all levels of participation, from amateur athletes to professionals and from children to adults, this Special Issue will highlight recent advances in the field and explore effective methods for injury prevention and risk identification for the achievement of sustainable physical activity .
In this Special Issue, original research articles and reviews are welcome. Research areas may include (but are not limited to) the following:
- Cross-sectional studies that explore new injury risks.
- Adaptation to short- and long-term injury prevention training interventions. Single-bout sessions or warm-up strategies that reduce injury risks.
- Adaptations to novel rehabilitation techniques in the clinical field.
- Novel pre-conditioning and re-conditioning techniques for the prevention of re-injury.
- Uncommon exercise interventions to improve injury resistance.
- Presenting the effects of unaccustomed, unexpected training stimuli, movement perturbation.
- Development of fundamental movement patterns in children and young athletes for long-term injury prevention.
- Innovative training technologies, equipment, and tools for injury prevention and risk identification.
- Training load management to reduce injury risks.
- Studies that provide bases for artificial intelligence development in injury prevention.
I/We look forward to receiving your contributions.
Dr. Márk Váczi
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- injury risks
- prevention strategies
- training technologies
- unaccustomed training stimulus
- rehabilitation
- re-conditioning
- children
- athletes
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