Association Between Spikes in External Training Load and Shoulder Injuries in Competitive Adolescent Tennis Players: The SMASH Cohort Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Few studies have examined the association between the acute:chronic workload ratio (ACWR) and complaints/injuries in young tennis players. Primary aims of this study were to investigate if accumulated external workload "spikes" in ACWR of tennis training, match play, and fitness training, and to see if high or low workload/age ratio were associated with the rate of shoulder complaints/injuries in competitive adolescent tennis players. Additional aims were to report the incidence of complaints/injuries stratified by sex and level of play and to describe shoulder injury characteristics.

Hypothesis

Rapid increases in external workload are associated with the incidence of shoulder complaints and injuries.

Study design

A cohort study.

Level of evidence

Le

SUBMITTER: Johansson F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8655479 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan-Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature