Injury surveillance in community cricket: A new innings for South Africa

State of the Art Injury surveillance in community cricket: A new innings for South Africa

Benita Olivier, Oluchukwu L. Obiora, Candice MacMillan, Caroline Finch

South African Journal of Physiotherapy | Vol 78, No 1 | a1756 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.4102/sajp.v78i1.1756 | © 2022 Benita Olivier, Oluchukwu L. Obiora, Candice MacMillan, Caroline Finch | This work is licensed under CC Attribution 4.0
Submitted: 07 December 2021 | Published: 15 June 2022

About the author(s) Benita Olivier, Wits Cricket Research Hub for Science, Medicine and Rehabilitation, School of Therapeutic Sciences, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa; and, Department of Physiotherapy, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
Oluchukwu L. Obiora, Wits Cricket Research Hub for Science, Medicine and Rehabilitation, School of Therapeutic Sciences, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa; and, Department of Physiotherapy, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
Candice MacMillan, Wits Cricket Research Hub for Science, Medicine and Rehabilitation, School of Therapeutic Sciences, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa; and, Department of Physiotherapy, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
Caroline Finch, School of Medical and Health Sciences, Edith Cowan University, Joondalup, Australia



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Abstract

Published injury rates amongst elite and club-level youth cricketers highlight the need to implement injury risk-reducing strategies amongst the youth cricketing population. Data from sports injury surveillance systems are a prerequisite for the development and evaluation of strategies to reduce injury risk. Therefore, collecting injury surveillance data is a positive move towards reducing injuries in cricket. In South Africa, a systematic, standardised, evidence-informed injury surveillance system currently does not exist for community levels of play, namely, in cricket-playing high schools and cricket clubs. Although injury surveillance systems exist at elite levels, the obvious differences in elite versus community cricket settings mean that these systems cannot be implemented in their current form at community-level cricket. An innovative model is required to implement an injury surveillance system in community cricket.

Clinical implications: This article proposes and describes a new research–practice partnership model to implement a systematic, standardised, evidence-informed injury surveillance system at cricket-playing high schools or cricket clubs within South Africa. Once this model has been employed, database systems will need to be established to allow long-term data management and sharing.


Keywords

cricket; sports; injury surveillance; injury prevention; injury risk reduction; data management


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