Research summary · Para sport
Daily wellness reports and later injury status in para-athletes
A prospective study followed daily stress, sleep, fatigue and soreness and compared them with injury status in the following week.
- Publication year
- 2026
- First published online
- Publication type
- 50-week prospective cohort study
- Journal
- BMJ Open Sport & Exercise Medicine
- Population / context
- Para swimming · Para athletics · Para powerlifting · Para taekwondo
What the publication reports
Sixty-one para-athletes were monitored for 50 weeks. High stress was associated with greater odds of gradual-onset injury status, and high fatigue with substantial gradual-onset injury status in the following week.
Limits and interpretation
Associations from one Brazilian cohort do not prove that a wellness score caused injury or define a universal intervention threshold. Self-report, multiple comparisons and sport and impairment differences limit generalization.
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Daily stress, sleep, fatigue and muscle soreness and their associations with injury and time loss in Para athletes: a 50-week prospective study
Original publication / indexed recordPMID: 42093762DOI: 10.1136/bmjsem-2025-002950Full text at the sourceReader discussion
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