COVID-19 National Football League (NFL) Injury Analysis: Follow-Up Study
Abstract BackgroundIn 2020, COVID-19 spread across the world and brought normal daily life to a halt, causing the shutdown of nearly everything in order to prevent its spread. The National Football League (NFL) similarly experienced shutdowns and the resulting effects, leaving...
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BackgroundIn 2020, COVID-19 spread across the world and brought normal daily life to a halt, causing the shutdown of nearly everything in order to prevent its spread. The National Football League (NFL) similarly experienced shutdowns and the resulting effects, leaving athletes unable to train in some of the most advanced facilities with many of the best trainers in the world. A previous study, titled COVID-19 Return to Sport: NFL Injury Prevalence Analysis
ObjectiveThe objective of this study is to perform a follow-up study to COVID-19 Return to Sport: NFL Injury Prevalence Analysis
MethodsTo determine if there was change in the number of injuries for each season, injury tallies collected from the 17-week-long 2018, 2019, and 2020 NFL regular seasons were compared with those from the 18-week-long 2021 and 2022 NFL regular seasons. A Kruskall-Wallis test with post hoc Dunn analysis was conducted to compare the rate of injuries per team per week between each of the 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, and 2022 regular seasons.
ResultsThe Kruskall-Wallis test revealed an HPPPPPPP
ConclusionsThe results of this follow-up study, combined with the previous study, show that extended training interruptions stemming from COVID-19 in 2020 induced detraining and led to increased injuries. Additionally, the results of this study show that retraining can occur, resulting in the development of injury protective factors, as injury rates returned to baseline levels after 2020. This is the first large-scale and long-term opportunity to demonstrate the effects of these principles and how they are important to understanding injury epidemiology. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-2284fc868e6a414caebad2cfc27c425f2024-04-10T05:30:18ZengJMIR PublicationsJMIRx Med2563-63162024-02-015e45688e4568810.2196/45688COVID-19 National Football League (NFL) Injury Analysis: Follow-Up StudyTroy B Pugahttp://orcid.org/0000-0003-3291-9700Joshua Schaferhttp://orcid.org/0000-0002-4537-444XGrace Thielhttp://orcid.org/0000-0003-1748-3777Nicholas Sciglianohttp://orcid.org/0000-0001-5104-4853Tiffany Ruanhttp://orcid.org/0000-0002-8094-0697Andres Toledohttp://orcid.org/0000-0003-4694-5942Prince N Agbedanuhttp://orcid.org/0000-0003-4728-6619Kevin Trefferhttp://orcid.org/0000-0002-4804-0605 Abstract BackgroundIn 2020, COVID-19 spread across the world and brought normal daily life to a halt, causing the shutdown of nearly everything in order to prevent its spread. The National Football League (NFL) similarly experienced shutdowns and the resulting effects, leaving athletes unable to train in some of the most advanced facilities with many of the best trainers in the world. A previous study, titled COVID-19 Return to Sport: NFL Injury Prevalence Analysis ObjectiveThe objective of this study is to perform a follow-up study to COVID-19 Return to Sport: NFL Injury Prevalence Analysis MethodsTo determine if there was change in the number of injuries for each season, injury tallies collected from the 17-week-long 2018, 2019, and 2020 NFL regular seasons were compared with those from the 18-week-long 2021 and 2022 NFL regular seasons. A Kruskall-Wallis test with post hoc Dunn analysis was conducted to compare the rate of injuries per team per week between each of the 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, and 2022 regular seasons. ResultsThe Kruskall-Wallis test revealed an HPPPPPPP ConclusionsThe results of this follow-up study, combined with the previous study, show that extended training interruptions stemming from COVID-19 in 2020 induced detraining and led to increased injuries. Additionally, the results of this study show that retraining can occur, resulting in the development of injury protective factors, as injury rates returned to baseline levels after 2020. This is the first large-scale and long-term opportunity to demonstrate the effects of these principles and how they are important to understanding injury epidemiology.https://xmed.jmir.org/2024/1/e45688 |
| spellingShingle | Troy B Puga Joshua Schafer Grace Thiel Nicholas Scigliano Tiffany Ruan Andres Toledo Prince N Agbedanu Kevin Treffer COVID-19 National Football League (NFL) Injury Analysis: Follow-Up Study JMIRx Med |
| title | COVID-19 National Football League (NFL) Injury Analysis: Follow-Up Study |
| title_full | COVID-19 National Football League (NFL) Injury Analysis: Follow-Up Study |
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| title_full_unstemmed | COVID-19 National Football League (NFL) Injury Analysis: Follow-Up Study |
| title_short | COVID-19 National Football League (NFL) Injury Analysis: Follow-Up Study |
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