Research summary · Para sport
Injury burden in Para athletes: important evidence gaps
A review estimates injury frequency while explicitly grading the certainty of the evidence.
- Publication year
- 2021
- Publication type
- Systematic review and meta-analysis
- Journal
- British Journal of Sports Medicine
- Population / context
- Para sport
What the publication reports
The synthesis found a substantial musculoskeletal injury burden in Para sport. Its authors emphasised that injury estimates are likely to change as larger studies with systematic data collection become available.
Limits and interpretation
The evidence was rated low or very low quality. A pooled value must not be treated as the expected risk for every impairment group, discipline or athlete.
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