@article{ref1,
title="Epidemiology of injuries in elite women's artistic gymnastics: a retrospective analysis of six seasons",
journal="BMJ open sport and exercise medicine",
year="2023",
author="Charpy, Séréna and Billard, Pierre and Dandrieux, Pierre-Eddy and Chapon, Joris and Edouard, Pascal",
volume="9",
number="4",
pages="e001721-e001721",
abstract="BACKGROUND: Women's Artistic Gymnastics (WAG) is a sport well known for requiring a heavy and difficult training load from a younger age to reach a high level of performance. This also is associated with an injury risk. Epidemiological studies are thus needed to improve injury prevention strategies. <br><br>OBJECTIVE: We aimed to determine the injury epidemiology in French high-level WAG. <br><br>METHODS: We conducted a retrospective analysis of injury data collected prospectively over six seasons from the 2014-2015 season to the 2019-2020 season among French high-level Women's Artistic Gymnasts from the France Gymnastics National Centre of Saint-Etienne. We performed descriptive analyses, including the calculation of the 1-year injury prevalence. <br><br>RESULTS: 43 gymnasts were included in this study, representing 111 gymnast-seasons. A total of 285 injuries were collected over the study period, that was, an average of 2.6 injuries per gymnast per season. On average, 91.4% of gymnasts had at least one injury per season. The estimated injury incidence rate was 1.8 injuries per 1000 hours of gymnastics practice. The knee was the most affected joint (16%), followed by the elbow (12%) and the ankle (12%). The most frequent injury type was physis pathologies (16%) and bone injuries (15%). Eighty-eight per cent of injuries required a modification of the gymnastics practice. <br><br>CONCLUSIONS: The results of this study allowed a description of the epidemiology of injuries in this population of young and elite gymnasts. This very high injury prevalence supports the need to improve injury risk reduction strategies in WAG.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="2055-7647",
doi="10.1136/bmjsem-2023-001721",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjsem-2023-001721"
}