Research summary · Women's sport
Injury-prevention programmes in female team sports
A female-specific review evaluates structured injury-prevention programmes across overall, lower-limb and joint-specific outcomes.
- Publication year
- 2026
- First published online
- Publication type
- Systematic review and meta-analysis
- Journal
- Frontiers in Public Health
- Population / context
- Female team-sport athletes
What the publication reports
Thirteen trials included 13,675 athletes. Programmes were associated with fewer overall injuries (risk ratio 0.65), lower-limb injuries (0.67), ACL injuries (0.62) and ankle injuries (0.59) in pooled analyses.
Limits and interpretation
Cluster adjustments and adherence reporting were incomplete, programmes and sports varied, and dose-response analyses were exploratory. Low-certainty group estimates do not guarantee protection for an individual athlete.
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Effectiveness of injury prevention programmes in female team sports: a systematic review and meta-analysis of hierarchical injury outcomes, training dose-response relationships, and adherence
Original publication / indexed recordPMID: 42812234DOI: 10.3389/fpubh.2026.1950998Full text at the sourceReader discussion
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