Prevalence and incidence of injuries in para athletes: a systematic review with meta-analysis and GRADE recommendations.

CONCLUSION: Para athletes show high prevalence and incidence of musculoskeletal injuries. Current very low-quality and low-quality evidence suggests that future high-quality studies with systematic data collection, larger sample size and specificities of para athletes are likely to change estimates of injury prevalence and incidence in para athletes.
PROSPERO REGISTRATION NUMBER: CRD42020147982.
PMID: 33229444 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: British Journal of Sports Medicine - November 23, 2020 Category: Sports Medicine Authors: Pinheiro LSP, Ocarino JM, Madaleno FO, Verhagen E, de Mello MT, Albuquerque MR, Andrade AGP, da Mata CP, Pinto RZ, Silva A, Resende RA Tags: Br J Sports Med Source Type: research