TY - JOUR T1 - Who ‘owns’ the injury or illness? Who ‘owns’ performance? Applying systems thinking to integrate health and performance in elite sport JF - British Journal of Sports Medicine JO - Br J Sports Med SP - 1054 LP - 1055 DO - 10.1136/bjsports-2016-096649 VL - 51 IS - 14 AU - Mitchell Mooney AU - Paula C Charlton AU - Sadjad Soltanzadeh AU - Michael K Drew Y1 - 2017/07/01 UR - http://bjsm.bmj.com/content/51/14/1054.abstract N2 - Systems thinking frameworks have gained attention in both modelling athlete performance and injury prevention in sports medicine.1–3 We believe that these fields may contribute valuably and interdependently within a larger high performance system.1 The purpose of this editorial is to explain how ‘injury’ and ‘performance’ interact within a system-based framework3 and to provide three practical implications of an integrated performance system.The basic premise underpinning any systems model is that parts of a system are inter-related, and the objective of the whole system defines the function of each part. Therefore, the interaction between parts cannot be reduced to a number of linear cause and effect relations.1 The influence of a part on the outcome of the whole system depends on the state of the other parts. Any change to a part of the system can affect the objectives of the whole system as … ER -