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Paralympic athletes’ perceptions of their experiences of sports‐related injuries, risk factors and preventive possibilities

Overview of attention for article published in European Journal of Sport Science, June 2016
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Title
Paralympic athletes’ perceptions of their experiences of sports‐related injuries, risk factors and preventive possibilities
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European Journal of Sport Science, June 2016
DOI 10.1080/17461391.2016.1192689
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Kristina Fagher, Anna Forsberg, Jenny Jacobsson, Toomas Timpka, Örjan Dahlström, Jan Lexell

Abstract

Our knowledge of sports-related injuries in para-sport is limited and there are no data on how Paralympic athletes themselves perceive an injury. The aim of this qualitative study was to explore Paralympic athletes' perceptions of their experiences of sports-related injuries, risk factors and preventive possibilities. Eighteen Swedish Paralympic athletes with vision impairment, intellectual impairment, spinal cord injury, cerebral palsy, myelomeningocele, dysplasia and neuromuscular disorder, representing 10 different para-sports, were interviewed. The qualitative phenomenographic method was used to interpret the data. The analysis revealed nine categories of perceptions of experiences. The athletes perceived that their impairments were involved in the cause and consequential chains associated with a sports-related injury. Other categories that denoted and described these injuries were: sport overuse, risk behaviour, functional limitations, psychological stressors, the normalised pain, health hazards, individual possibilities to prevent sports-related injuries and unequal prerequisites. This qualitative study revealed that Paralympic athletes' perceptions of their experiences of sports-related injuries are complex and multifactorial, and in several ways differ from able-bodied athletes. This needs to be considered in the sports health and safety work within the Paralympic Movement as well as in the design of future injury surveillance systems and preventive programmes.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 1 <1%
Netherlands 1 <1%
Brazil 1 <1%
Unknown 198 99%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 36 18%
Student > Bachelor 19 9%
Researcher 14 7%
Student > Ph. D. Student 12 6%
Lecturer 9 4%
Other 38 19%
Unknown 73 36%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Sports and Recreations 37 18%
Medicine and Dentistry 24 12%
Psychology 18 9%
Nursing and Health Professions 15 7%
Unspecified 8 4%
Other 17 8%
Unknown 82 41%
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#5,783,382
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Outputs of similar age from European Journal of Sport Science
#17
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