Statement on methods in sport injury research from the 1st METHODS MATTER Meeting, Copenhagen, 2019

Rasmus Oestergaard Nielsen; Ian Shrier; Marti Casals; Albertro Nettel-Aguirre; Merete Møller; Caroline Bolling; Natália Franco Netto Bittencourt; Benjamin Clarsen; Niels Wedderkopp; Torbjørn Soligard; Toomas Timpka; Carolyn Emery; Roald Bahr; Jenny Jacobsson; Rod Whiteley; Orjan Dahlstrom; Nicol van Dyk; Babette M Pluim; Emmanuel Stamatakis; Luz Palacios-Derflingher; Morten Wang Fagerland; Karim M Khan; Clare L Ardern; Evert Verhagen

doi:10.1136/bjsports-2019-101323

Statement on methods in sport injury research from the 1st METHODS MATTER Meeting, Copenhagen, 2019

Br J Sports Med. 2020 Aug;54(15):941. doi: 10.1136/bjsports-2019-101323. Epub 2020 May 4.

Authors

Rasmus Oestergaard Nielsen^{1

2}, Ian Shrier³, Marti Casals^{4

5}, Albertro Nettel-Aguirre⁶, Merete Møller⁷, Caroline Bolling⁸, Natália Franco Netto Bittencourt^{8

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10}, Benjamin Clarsen^{11

12}, Niels Wedderkopp^{13

14}, Torbjørn Soligard¹⁵, Toomas Timpka¹⁶, Carolyn Emery¹⁷, Roald Bahr¹², Jenny Jacobsson¹⁸, Rod Whiteley¹⁹, Orjan Dahlstrom²⁰, Nicol van Dyk²¹, Babette M Pluim^{8

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23}, Emmanuel Stamatakis^{24

25}, Luz Palacios-Derflingher²⁶, Morten Wang Fagerland¹², Karim M Khan^{27

28}, Clare L Ardern^{29

30}, Evert Verhagen⁸

Affiliations

¹ Department of Public Health, Section for Sports Science, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark roen@ph.au.dk.
² Research Unit for General Practice, Aarhus, Denmark.
³ Centre for Clinical Epidemiology, Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research, Jewish General Hospital, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
⁴ Sport and Physical Activity Studies Centre (CEEAF), Faculty of Medicine, University of Vic-Central University of Catalonia (UVic-UCC), Barcelona, Spain.
⁵ Medical Department, Futbol Club Barcelona, Barça Innovation Hub, Barcelona, Spain.
⁶ Community Health Sciences, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
⁷ Department of Sports Science and Clinical Biomechanics, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark.
⁸ Amsterdam Collaboration on Health and Safety in Sports, Department of Public and Occupational Health, Amsterdam UMC, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam Movement Sciences, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
⁹ Sports Physical Therapy Department, Minas Tenis Clube, Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
¹⁰ Physical Therapy, Centro Universitário UniBH, Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
¹¹ Department of Health Promotion, Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Bergen, Norway.
¹² Oslo Sports Trauma Research Center, Norwegian School of Sport Sciences, Department of Sports Medicine, Oslo, Norway.
¹³ Department of Regional Health Research, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark.
¹⁴ The Orthopedic department, Hospital of Southwestern Jutland, Esbjerg, Denmark.
¹⁵ Medical and Scientific Department, International Olympic Committee, Lausanne, Switzerland.
¹⁶ Health and Society, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden.
¹⁷ Kinesiology, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
¹⁸ Department of Medical and Health Sciences, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden.
¹⁹ Aspetar Orthopaedic and Sports Medicine Hospital, Doha, Qatar.
²⁰ Department of Behavioural Sciences and Learning, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden.
²¹ High Performance Unit, Irish Rugby Football Union, Dublin, Ireland.
²² Section Sports Medicine, Faculty of Health Science, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa.
²³ Medical Department, Royal Netherlands Lawn Tennis Association, Amstelveen, The Netherlands.
²⁴ School of Public Health, University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
²⁵ University College London, London, UK.
²⁶ Community Health Sciences, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
²⁷ Department of Family Practice, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
²⁸ British Journal of Sports Medicine, London, United Kingdom.
²⁹ Division of Physiotherapy, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden.
³⁰ Division of Physiotherapy, Department of Neurobiology, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden.

Abstract

High quality sports injury research can facilitate sports injury prevention and treatment. There is scope to improve how our field applies best practice methods-methods matter (greatly!). The 1st METHODS MATTER Meeting, held in January 2019 in Copenhagen, Denmark, was the forum for an international group of researchers with expertise in research methods to discuss sports injury methods. We discussed important epidemiological and statistical topics within the field of sports injury research. With this opinion document, we provide the main take-home messages that emerged from the meeting.

Keywords: epidemiology; injury; methodology; statistics.

Publication types

Consensus Development Conference

MeSH terms

Athletic Injuries* / epidemiology
Athletic Injuries* / etiology
Athletic Injuries* / prevention & control
Athletic Injuries* / therapy
Data Interpretation, Statistical
Humans
Interdisciplinary Communication
Research Design* / statistics & numerical data
Risk Factors
Sports Medicine / methods*