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Understanding And Researching Youth Football Injuries With An Interdisciplinary Approach: Current Literature And Project Experiences

SOLVEIG E. SAND HAUSKEN, NATALIE BARKER-RUCHTI, ASTRID SCHUBRING, STEFAN GRAU

Injuries in youth sport (football)

• Reported football (soccer) injuries accounts for more

than 10% of all sport injuries in youth age 11-18

• Higher injury rate than in other team sport
• Injury incidence increases with age
• Injuries at a young age can

affect long-term health

(Emery & Tyreman 2009; Faude, Rossler & Junge, 2010; Koutures & Gregory, 2013)

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Current research on youth injuries

• Three main perspectives:
• Biomedicine
• Psychology
• Sociology
• One-dimensional
• Injuries occurs in a context
• Alternative way – interdisciplinary research

(Bergeron et al., 2015)

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What is interdisciplinary research?

*Committee on Facilitating Interdisciplinary Research, Committee on Science, Engineering, and Public Policy (2004).Facilitating interdisciplinary research. National Academies. Washington: National Academy Press, p. 2.

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"Interdisciplinary research is a mode of research by teams or individuals that integrates information, data, techniques, tools, perspectives, concepts, and/or theories from two or more disciplines

• r bodies of specialized knowledge to advance

fundamental understanding or to solve problems whose solutions are beyond the scope of a single discipline or area of research practice.“

Three perspectives to understand the literature

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• Themes

1. Body perspective – what questions are being asked? 2. Injury perspective – how are injuries defined? 3. Methodology – how are injuries registered and with what methods?

Biomedical injury research

Body perspective

• Body as machine
• Modifiable
• Normative
• Body in center

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(De Ridder et al., 2016; Friden & Heijne, 2017; Padua et al., 2015; Steffen et al., 2008; Thompson et al., 2017; Venturelli et al., 2011; von Rosen et al., 2017; Walden Hägglund & Ekstrand, 2001)

Injury perspective

• Specific
• Related to

individual physical factors

• Needs expert

treatment Methodology

• Quantitative –

physical testing

• Injury registration

– self reported, medical experts

• Medical theory –

descriptive

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Psychological injury research

Body perspective

• Body as separate

from the mind

• Modifiable but

together with the mind

• Physical body less

in center

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Injury perspective

• Specific
• Individual

psychological factors

• Needs expert

treatment together with the mind Methodology

• Quantitative –

questionnaires

• Injury registration

– self reported, medical experts

• Psychological

theories – descriptive

(Brink et al., 2010; Ivarsson et al., 2014; Johnson & Ivarsson 2011; Steffen et al., 2009; Schwebel et al., 2007)

Sociological injury research

Body perspective

• Body as a social

product

• Embodied
• Athlete in

context

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Injury perspective

• Not specific
• Related to factors
• utside of the

body

• Injury part of a

story Methodology

• Qualitative –

interviews,

• bservations
• No injury

registration

• Social/sociological

theories – prescriptive

(Adams, Mason & Robifoux, 2015; Malcom 2006, Cavallerio et al., 2016; Roderick & Waddington 2000)

So what now?

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How can we talk about a different understanding or an interdisciplinary understanding of (injury) research? How can we do research by keeping in mind what we leave

• ut?

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“Injury free children and adolescents: T

• wards

best practice in Swedish football (FIT project)

• How do injuries develop over time

and what are the individual factors?

• What combinations of physical

dispositions lead to injuries?

• How are contextual factors

related to injuries/are contextual factors related to injuries?

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Sub study 1 (questionnaire, 160 players) Sub study 2 (biomedical testing, training protocol, growth, 116 players) Sub study 3 (observations, 6 players) Sub study 4 (interview, 6 players) Integrated analysis: Portfolios, 6 players

Project experiences, challenges and gains

• Different expectations
• Research quality
• Sampling size
• Recruitment
• Finding a common language
• Openness
• Keep in mind what is being left out
• Integrated analysis of data

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Thank you!

Visit us at @fitprojektet

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