@article{ref1,
title="Association of training and game loads to injury risk in junior male elite ice hockey players: a prospective cohort study",
journal="Orthopaedic journal of sports medicine",
year="2022",
author="Nordstrøm, Anine and Bahr, Roald and Bache-Mathiesen, Lena K. and Clarsen, Ben and Talsnes, Ove",
volume="10",
number="10",
pages="e23259671221129646-e23259671221129646",
abstract="BACKGROUND: Training and game loads are potential risk factors of injury in junior elite ice hockey, but the association of training and game loads to injuries is unknown. <br><br>PURPOSE: To investigate the association of chronic training and game loads to injury risk in junior male elite ice hockey players. STUDY DESIGN: Cohort study; Level of evidence, 2. <br><br>METHODS: In this prospective cohort study, we monitored all health problems among 159 male junior ice hockey players (mean age, 16 years; range, 15-19 years) at sports-specific high schools during the 2018-2019 school year. Players reported their health problems every week using the Oslo Sports Trauma Research Center Overuse Questionnaire on Health Problems (OSTRC-H2). The number of training sessions and games was reported for 33 weeks. We calculated the previous 2-week difference in training/game loads as well as the cumulative training/game loads of the previous 2, 3, 4, and 6 weeks and explored potential associations between training/game loads and injury risk using mixed-effects logistic regression. <br><br>RESULTS: The players reported 133 acute injuries, 75 overuse injuries, and 162 illnesses in total, and an average of 8.8 (SD ±3.9) training sessions and 0.9 (SD ± 1.1) games per week. We found no association between the difference of the two previous weeks or the previous 2- 3- and 4-week cumulative, training or game load and acute injuries, nor the difference of the two previous weeks, or the previous 4- and 6-week cumulative, training or game load and overuse injuries (OR, ∼1.0; P >.05 in all models). <br><br>CONCLUSION: In the current study of junior elite ice hockey players, there was no evidence of an association between cumulative exposure to training/game loads and injury risk.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="2325-9671",
doi="10.1177/23259671221129646",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/23259671221129646"
}