PRBC-Hand
Constructing a model based on physiological and biomechanical data for predicting ankle injury risk in elite athletes
Keeping your players in shape for the whole season is the goal of all sports coaches, especially at the top level where large sums of money are at stake from sponsors but also from local authorities for players. Individually, maintaining one's health capital enables players to enjoy a longer career and avoid injuries putting a premature brake on their progression and evolution.
Most of the causes of injuries are known (lack of sleep, muscular fragility, joint amplitude deficit, physical overload etc...) Coaches oscillate between their experience and the feelings of all their players, they have little or no quantified information on the state of form of teams to adjust training.
Handball is in the top 3 sports where ankle injuries are most frequent. The project in collaboration with St Amand Handball Club, Valenciennes Hospital and UPHF is setting up clinical and biomechanical tests as well as daily follow-up questionnaires to build an ankle injury risk index. This index could alert the coach to a player's fragility in order to adapt training phases and alert the medical staff, who could take measures for protection and early intervention.
The aim of this index is to become an automated model. This model is being built with a women's handball team and aims to be extended to other team and individual sports
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CH Valenciennes
Handball Club de Saint-Amand-les-Eaux |
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| Main support | Rayout | Date(s) |
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2019 - 2020
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