Athletic Injuries

Overview

Athletic injuries are tissue damage and functional impairments that occur during sport, training, or vigorous physical activity, affecting muscles, tendons, ligaments, bones, cartilage, and the nervous system. They are conventionally divided into acute traumatic injuries, such as sprains, strains, contusions, dislocations, fractures, and ligament tears caused by a single high-force event, and overuse injuries, such as tendinopathies and stress fractures that develop gradually from repetitive loading without adequate recovery. Injury risk reflects the interaction of intrinsic factors, including age, prior injury, anatomical alignment, strength, and neuromuscular control, with extrinsic factors such as training load, technique, playing surface, equipment, and the demands of the specific sport. Lower-limb injuries, particularly ankle sprains and knee ligament injuries, are especially common and are strongly linked to landing and cutting mechanics governed by hip and lower-extremity kinematics. Certain disciplines, such as equestrian sport, carry distinct risks including spinal cord injury. Effective management spans accurate diagnosis, acute care, rehabilitation, and graded return to play, while prevention emphasizes movement screening, neuromuscular conditioning, and structured warm-up programs. Emerging monitoring tools, including physiological and continuous metabolic measurement, increasingly inform load management and the reduction of injury incidence.

Research published in this journal

5 peer-reviewed articles, ranked by relevance. Each links to its DOI.

How this research is being cited

The 5 articles above have been cited 2 times in the scholarly literature. Citation data via OpenAlex and Crossref, updated Jun 2026.

• Poor Motor Coordination Elicits Altered Lower Limb Biomechanics in Young Football (Soccer) Players: Implications for Injury Prevention through Wearable Sensors
  2021 · Sensors
• Poor Motor Coordination Elicits Altered Lower Limb Biomechanics in Young Football (Soccer) Players: Implications for Injury Prevention through Wearable Sensors
  S. D. Paolo et al. · 2021 · Italian National Conference on Sensors

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