Biomechanics in Sports Injury Management: Injury Risk, Return to Sport, Intervention Guidelines
A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601). This special issue belongs to the section "Sport and Health".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 April 2023) | Viewed by 5337
Special Issue Editor
2. Oleksy Medical & Sports Sciences, Łańcut, Poland
Interests: rehabilitation medicine; sports medicine; exercise science; return to sport; injury risk; biomechanics; bioengineering
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Dear Colleagues,
Optimal athletic training should lead to a high level of performance, but usually, the high volume of repetition and a lack of variety in movement patterns can result in muscle imbalance, altering tissue stress, which leads to injury. Moreover, in the literature, it was reported that tissues which are overloaded are prone to micro trauma, which causes decreases in muscle strength and endurance, manifested as increased muscle fatigue. Returning to sport after injury is often a difficult and time-consuming process. An important issue is that previous injury strongly increases the risk of future tissue damage; therefore, many athletes who have been cleared to return to sports after injury still lack complete motor control and coordination.
However, it is crucial to understand the underlying mechanisms of sports injury, which allow for successive treatment, rehabilitation or sport training individualization. There is a need to define the key performance indicators in the return to sport monitoring process and to develop guidelines for effective therapeutic intervention after injuries. Therefore, this Special Issue aims to highlight the explanations for alterations in the musculoskeletal system, particularly emphasizing mechanisms of tissue overload and injury from the biomechanical, rehabilitation and sport perspective. Research papers that provide empirical evidence for new explanations of musculoskeletal system athletic training, tissue overload, injury risk factors and treatment methods as well as theoretical papers that introduce new explanations are encouraged.
Dr. Łukasz Oleksy
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- tissue overload
- biomechanics of microtrauma
- sport injury
- rehabilitation
- injury risk
- RTP
- RTS
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