Epidemiology of injuries among amateur athletes who attended fitness activities: the role of the qualification of the trainer.

CONCLUSIONS: Our study showed a mild lifetime prevalence of injury among subjects attending fitness activities (21%), higher among athletes trained by an instructor not graduated in Sports Science. This is a topic poorly investigated previously but very important in the future, in particular in the view of the diffusion of fitness worldwide. PMID: 31665875 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Journal of Sports Medicine and Physical Fitness - Category: Sports Medicine Tags: J Sports Med Phys Fitness Source Type: research