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| Research Title: |
Is there an association between self-reported warm-up behaviour and golf related injury in female golfers? |
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Conditioning
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| Keywords: |
Injury Prevention
Warm-up, Golf, Female
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| Author(s): |
Andrea J Fradkin, Peter A Cameron, Belinda J Gabbe |
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| Release Date: |
15 May 2008 |
| Research Summary/Text: |
In Australia, golf is the tenth most popular physical activity for women, and while it is considered to be a low-intensity sport, the lower back, wrist and shoulder are commonly injured due to sprains or other overuse injuries. It has been suggested that the risk of these types of injuries could be reduced if golfers undertook warm-up before play. A total of 522 female golfers recruited from the Victorian Women’s Pennant competition in Australia, from both metropolitan and country areas, provided self-reported demographic information, golf and injury history as well as knowledge, behaviours and attitudes about warm-up. Injury as a result of competing, training and/or participating in a golfing activity was recorded.
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| Research Objectives: |
The aim of the study is to investigate the relationship between warm-up participation and injury in a cohort of female golfers.
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| Research Outcomes: |
An association between warm-up behaviours and injury was established in this study. Despite playing at least once a week and having a registered golfing handicap the majority of golfers did not undertake a suitable warm-up. Golfers who did not warm-up on a regular basis had a significantly higher risk of reported injury than those who did. Golfers with lower handicaps (more skilled players) were more likely to report an injury than those with higher handicap, independent of their warm-up behaviour, and possibly due to increased exposure. Players are less likely to warm-up prior to practice than playing a game of golf.
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| Research Implications: |
Direct causality could not be established between warm-up behaviour and injury as this was a retrospective study. However there is an association between the two which suggests that warm-up prior to practice and play would reduce injury in female golfers. Given that the majority of golfers in this study did not undertake suitable warm-up, encouragement of golfers at all levels to warm-up through a focussed education program is worth consideration.
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