Association of training and game loads to injury risk in junior male elite ice hockey players: A prospective cohort study
Nordstrøm, Anine; Bahr, Roald; Bache-Mathiesen, Lena Kristin; Clarsen, Benjamin Matthew; Talsnes, Ove
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Orthopaedic Journal of Sports Medicine. 2022, 10(10), Artikkel 23259671221129646. 10.1177/23259671221129646Abstract
Background: Training and game loads are potential risk factors of injury in junior elite ice hockey, but the association of training and game loads to injuries is unknown.
Purpose: To investigate the association of chronic training and game loads to injury risk in junior male elite ice hockey players.
Study Design: Cohort study; Level of evidence, 2.
Methods: In this prospective cohort study, we monitored all health problems among 159 male junior ice hockey players (mean age, 16 years; range, 15-19 years) at sports-specific high schools during the 2018-2019 school year. Players reported their health problems every week using the Oslo Sports Trauma Research Center Overuse Questionnaire on Health Problems (OSTRC-H2). The number of training sessions and games was reported for 33 weeks. We calculated the previous 2-week difference in training/game loads as well as the cumulative training/game loads of the previous 2, 3, 4, and 6 weeks and explored potential associations between training/game loads and injury risk using mixed-effects logistic regression.
Results: The players reported 133 acute injuries, 75 overuse injuries, and 162 illnesses in total, and an average of 8.8 (SD ±3.9) training sessions and 0.9 (SD ± 1.1) games per week. We found no association between the difference of the two previous weeks or the previous 2- 3- and 4-week cumulative, training or game load and acute injuries, nor the difference of the two previous weeks, or the previous 4- and 6-week cumulative, training or game load and overuse injuries (OR, ∼1.0; P > .05 in all models).
Conclusion: In the current study of junior elite ice hockey players, there was no evidence of an association between cumulative exposure to training/game loads and injury risk.
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