Dr. Mark Rathjen PT DPT, CSCS analysis of findings.
Its often that marketing hype and mainstream social media bring false or misleading information to the public for marketing purposes. Its natural to fall into believe the next and latest/greatest fixes and fads. Time and time again, the research points us to the tried and true methods of science. In this case; the science of injury prevention.
In yet another study we find “Strength training reduced sports injuries to less than 1/3 and overuse injuries could be almost halved.” Yes we have found this to be true dozens of times, its holds true to athletes, weekend warriors and even moderate activity lovers.
Strength training has numerous health benefits. We have known this fact for many years. Here is just another study to prove and re enforce what we have been teaching patients all along.
https://bjsm.bmj.com/content/bjsports/48/11/871.full.pdf
ABSTRACT
Background Physical activity is important in both prevention and treatment of many common diseases, but sports injuries can pose serious problems.
Objective Todeterminewhetherphysicalactivity exercises can reduce sports injuries and perform stratified analyses of strength training, stretching, proprioception and combinations of these, and provide separate acute and overuse injury estimates.
Material and methods PubMed, EMBASE, Web of Science and SPORTDiscus were searched and yielded 3462 results. Two independent authors selected relevant randomised, controlled trials and quality assessments were conducted by all authors of this paper using the Cochrane collaboration domain-based quality assessment tool. Twelve studies that neglected to account for clustering effects were adjusted. Quantitative analyses were performed in STATA V.12 and sensitivity analysed by intention-to-treat. Heterogeneity (I2) and publication bias (Harbord’s small-study effects) were formally tested.Results 25 trials, including 26 610 participants with 3464 injuries, were analysed. The overall effect estimate on injury prevention was heterogeneous. Stratified exposure analyses proved no beneficial effect for stretching (RR 0.963 (0.846–1.095)), whereas studies with multiple exposures (RR 0.655 (0.520–0.826)), proprioception training (RR 0.550 (0.347–0.869)), and strength training (RR 0.315 (0.207–0.480)) showed a tendency towards increasing effect. Both acute injuries (RR 0.647 (0.502–0.836)) and overuse injuries (RR 0.527 (0.373–0.746)) could be reduced by physical activity programmes. Intention-to-treat sensitivity analyses consistently revealed even more robust effect estimates.
Conclusions Despite a few outlying studies, consistently favourable estimates were obtained for all injury prevention measures except for stretching. Strength training reduced sports injuries to less than 1/3 and overuse injuries could be almost halved.
CONCLUSION
CONCLUSION
In general, physical activity was shown to effectively reduce sports injuries. Stretching proved no beneficial effect, whereas
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multiple exposure programmes, proprioception training, and strength training, in that order, showed a tendency towards increasing effect. Strength training reduced sports injuries to less than one-third. We advocate that multiple exposure interven- tions should be constructed on the basis of well-proven single exposures and that further research into single exposures, par- ticularly strength training, remains crucial. Both acute and overuse injuries could be significantly reduced, overuse injuries by almost a half. Apart from a few outlying studies, consistently favourable estimates were obtained for all injury prevention measures except for stretching.