Has the athlete trained enough to return to play safely? The acute:chronic workload ratio permits clinicians to quantify a player's risk of subsequent injury
Has the athlete trained enough to return to play safely? The acute:chronic workload ratio permits clinicians to quantify a player's risk of subsequent injury on “Papers I Actually Use”, a list by Priya Nair on TheLysts.
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Year
2016
Main focus
Introduces the acute:chronic workload ratio as a way to link training spikes to injury risk.
Key lesson
Big week-on-week load jumps are asking for trouble; spikes matter more than magic exercises.
My take
I’d rather a slightly undercooked player with smooth loads than a ‘fitness test hero’ coming off a spike… fight me.
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