A new statistical approach to training load and injury risk: separating the acute from the chronic load.

ABSTRACT: The relationship between recent (acute) training load relative to long-term (chronic) training load may be associated with sports injury risk. We explored the potential for modelling acute and chronic loads separately to address current statistical methodology limitations. We also determined whether there was any evidence of an interaction in the association between acute and chronic training loads and injury risk in football. A men's Qatar Stars League football cohort (1 465 players, 1 977 injuries), where training load was defined as the number of minutes of activity, and a Norwegian elite U-19 football cohort (81 players, 60 injuries), where training load was defined as the session rating of perceived exertion (sRPE). Mixed logistic regression was run with training load on the current d

SUBMITTER: Bache-Mathiesen LK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10765439 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature