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Injury frequency and characteristics (location, type, cause and severity) differed significantly among athletics (‘track and field’) disciplines during 14 international championships (2007–2018): implications for medical service planning

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  • Pascal Edouard Inter‐university Laboratory of Human Movement Science (LIBM EA 7424), University of Lyon, University Jean Monnet, Saint Etienne, France Department of Clinical and Exercise Physiology, Sports Medicine Unit, University Hospital of Saint-Etienne, Saint-Etienne, France Swiss Olympic Medical center, Centre de médecine du sport, Division de médecine physique et réadaptation, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois, Lausanne, Switzerland European Athletics Medical & Anti Doping Commission, European Athletics Association (EAA), Lausanne, Switzerland Medical Commission, French Athletics Federation (FFA), Paris, France PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Laurent Navarro Mines Saint-Etienne, INSERM, U 1059 Sainbiose, CIS, Univ Lyon, Univ Jean Monnet, Saint-Etienne, France PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Pedro Branco European Athletics Medical & Anti Doping Commission, European Athletics Association (EAA), Lausanne, Switzerland Health and Science Commission, International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF), Monaco, Monaco PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Vincent Gremeaux Swiss Olympic Medical center, Centre de médecine du sport, Division de médecine physique et réadaptation, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois, Lausanne, Switzerland Institute of Sport Sciences, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Toomas Timpka Athletics Research Center, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Astrid Junge Prevention, Health Promotion and Sports Medicine, MSH Medical School Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany Swiss Concussion Centre, Schulthess Klinik, Zurich, Switzerland PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  1. Correspondence to Dr Pascal Edouard, University Hospital of Saint-Etienne, Saint-Etienne 42 055, France; Pascal.Edouard42{at}gmail.com
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Edouard P, Navarro L, Branco P, et al
Injury frequency and characteristics (location, type, cause and severity) differed significantly among athletics (‘track and field’) disciplines during 14 international championships (2007–2018): implications for medical service planning
British Journal of Sports Medicine 2020;54:159-167.

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  • Accepted November 6, 2019
  • First published November 13, 2019.
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January 20, 2020

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