Page 63 - Safe Wrestling

Models of Injury Occurrence, Prevention and Prediction

Methods
Design and Conceptual Approach
This contribution was developed as a conceptual and integrative synthe-
sis of models used to explain injury occurrence, guide injury-prevention
planning, support implementation in practice, and inform quantita-
tive estimation of injury risk in sport. The methodological approach is
descriptive-comparative in nature, with the primary objective of sum-
marising and contrasting influential conceptual frameworks in order to
highlight their theoretical assumptions, practical implications, and ap-
plicability within sport settings.
Rather than evaluating intervention effectiveness quantitatively, the
contribution focuses on how different models conceptualise injury cau-
sation, prevention processes, implementation challenges, and predictive
approaches to injury risk. This approach was selected because sports-
injury prevention involves complex interactions among biomechanical,
behavioural, organisational, and contextual factors that are not ade-
quately captured through isolated empirical findings alone.

Literature Search Strategy
To support the identification of influential models and key conceptual
papers, targeted literature searches were conducted across several in-
ternationally recognised scientific databases, including PubMed/MED-
LINE, Scopus, Web of Science Core Collection, and ScienceDirect. No
publication-year restrictions were applied in order to include both foun-
dational theoretical models and more recent developments in sports-
injury research, implementation science, and risk prediction.
Search strategies combined terms related to sports injuries, preven-
tion frameworks, implementation, and predictive modelling. Represen-
tative search strings included combinations such as:
• (sport OR athlete OR ‘team sport’) AND (injur* OR ‘sport injur*’)
AND (model OR framework OR prevention OR implementation OR
translation)*
• (TRIPP OR Haddon OR ‘epidemiological model’ OR ‘injury predic-
tion’ OR ‘risk prediction’ OR ‘logistic regression’ OR ‘injury risk’)
Boolean operators and database-specific indexing terms were used
where appropriate to broaden or refine search outputs. In addition to
database searches, reference lists of influential publications and consen-
sus statements were manually screened to identify additional relevant
sources.

63