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    Seasonal variations of injury and overtraining in elite athletes

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    Authors
    Koutedakis, Yiannis
    Sharp, N. C. Craig
    Issue Date
    1998
    
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    Objective: To assess reported injuries and cases of overtraining in relation to training and competition cycles, aerobic versus anaerobic sport, and gender. Methods: A total of 163 elite male and 94 elite female athletes from eight different sports volunteered. They reported 212 musculoskeletal injuries and 38 cases of overtraining syndrome. These injuries and cases of overtraining were then arranged according to the training or competition cycle in which they occured, whether the sufferers were male or female athletes, and the metabolic characteristics of the sports in which the injuries and overtraining occurred. Results: The preparation (October to February), precompetition (March to May), and competition (June to August) cycles were associated with 9%, 19%, and 32% of the injuries reported by the men, respectively, and with 8%, 10%, and 22% of the injuries reported by women, respectively. For the same cycles, cases of overtraining were found to be 15%, 24% and 35% for the men, respectively, and 4%, 7%, and 15% for the women, respectively. For both men and women, the competition cycle proved significantly more injuries and incidents of overtraining than the preparation and precompetition cycles (p<0.005 vs p <0.005) in men, but not in women. Similarly, precompetion revealed significanly more injuries (p<0.005) in men, but not in women, compared with the preparation cycle. Also, male athletes reported a significantly higher number of injuries during the precompetion (p<0.005) and competition (p<0.001) cycles, and more cases of overtraining during the competion cycle (p<0.001) than did their female counterparts. No differences were found when the data were arranged according to dominant metabolic characteristics of the sports in which the injuries and overtraining occurred. Conclusion: Elite athletes are more likely to become injured or overtrained during the precompetition and, especially, competition cycles than in the preparation cycle. Parallel seasonal variations were also found when data were analyzed for aerobic versus anaerobic sport and gender.
    Citation
    Clinical journal of sports medicine 8(1): 18-21
    Publisher
    Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
    Journal
    Clinical journal of sports medicine
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/2436/111407
    Type
    Journal article
    Language
    en
    ISSN
    1050642X
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