A new model for injury prevention in team sports: the Team-sport Injury Prevention (TIP) cycle

ABSTRACT

Recently, there has been growing interest in injury prevention for football and other team sports, including the development of models and frameworks to guide injury prevention efforts. However, many existing models are geared towards the conduct of injury prevention research and do not reflect the everyday injury prevention approach of sports medicine and sports science practitioners working in professional teams. Here, we present a new model, the Team-sport Injury Prevention (TIP) cycle, specifically aimed at the sports team medicine/science practitioner. It involves a simple continual cycle with three key phases: (Re) evaluate, Identify and Intervene. These phases incorporate key aspects of previous models, along with important implementation aspects. By progressing through the model’s three phases, team medicine/science practitioners can develop a context-specific and dynamic injury prevention strategy.

KEYWORDS:

• Injury prevention
• model
• framework
• football
• team sport

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors. This article is connected to the 2018 FC Barcelona Muscle Injury Guide, which is officially supported by the Science and Medicine in Football Journal. Any paper submitted to Science and Medicine in Football Journal that is connected to the 2018 FC Barcelona Muscle Injury Guide is subject to the normal external peer review process.