Abstract
Abstract Sports injuries sustained by children are usually not life-threatening, but they do result in pain, short-term disability, school absence, and, in the long term, possibly osteoarthritis. Although sports injuries in children are a fact of life, this does call for preventive actions. In order to set out effective prevention programmes, epidemiological studies need to be conducted on the incidence, severity, and aetiology of sports injuries. Furthermore, the effectiveness of a preventive measure needs to be assessed, and eventual implementation of a programme closely evaluated. The current concepts that are used to develop and evaluate sport injury prevention programmes as a means of introduction into sports injury research in youth are summarised in this chapter.
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