Injury prevention

Faced with growing international competition, elite athletes need to cope with increasingly high training workloads in order to be able to progress. If their resilience does not keep pace with this increase in their training workloads, athletes can be exposed to increased injury risks. Safeguarding the time available for training is becoming a major issue for elite sports performance.

Some examples of research work:  

  • Identifying the conditions involving a high risk of injury through the development of innovative epidemiological analysis highlighting the risk factors linked to the likelihood and recurrence of injuries;

  • Assessing the impacts of programmes to safeguard physical or psychological capabilities during rest periods, or restoring them when resuming activities (rehabilitation, reconditioning, return to sport).  

 

Working closely with the Medical division, INSEP’s laboratories aim to support the emergence of new knowledge linking various clinical and scientific fields (exercise traumatology, functional rehabilitation). The applications developed through this work will notably make it possible to better understand the conditions for injuries to occur, while looking at how athletes manage their injuries, and will ultimately help reduce downtimes or make better use of phases when training is reduced due to injury.

Main research work: