Hi Marcelo,

I'm not sure of any college specific injury prevention techniques, but most clubs screen players for potential risk factors and try to prevent these from becoming an injury by targeted training. However, the usefulness of screening to prevent injuries is limited (read for example these papers: Why screening tests to predict injury do not work—and probably never will… a critical review, and Screening and likelihood ratio infographic). 

Therefore, a better way to prevent injuries is perhaps to monitor the training load and to make sure there are no spikes in the training load. For example, recent research has investigated the acute to chronic workload ratio for this purpose and found this ratio could best stay within 0.8-1.3 to reduce the likelihood of injuries (see: Has the athlete trained enough to return to play safely  The acute chronic workload ratio permits clinicians to …).

 Hope this helps!

I agree that just screening does not work. The basic training with focus strength and flexibility can be a preventive tool, because strong and flexible muscles have less chances for injury compared to weak and stiff muscles.

There are a number of injury prevention programs that are currently being used across sports. One in particular is the FIFA11+. This program is a dynamic warm-up that was designed by an international team of clinicians, scientists, and coaches. While it was originally designed for soccer (14 year and older), the focus is on better stabilization of the core and engaging hip musculature, certainly good injury prevention measures that athletes in various running, cutting, and jumping sports could benefit from.

http://f-marc.com/11plus/11plus/

Hi Marcelo

There are some tools like:

Star test for stability,  askling H test for the hamstring, ECG to prevent sudden death, the FMS (functional movement screening), asymetry screening (force plate or isokinetic evaluation and the conventional clinical evaluation.

IF we tallk about interventions you have the next

Askling L protocol, Fifa 11 plus programme (strong recommendation), sport massage (controversial), squat programme and excentric exercise.

I hoped i have helped you, nowadays I'm doing the sport medicine residency and Im looking for clinical rotations if you know some center of sport medicine where I coul do that, let me know. Thanks!

In terms of health promotion and injury prevention, a good surveillance tool is needed to determine if injuries are occurring and why and how.  For our high school athletes study we utilized mostly the Reporting Information Online tool that led us to fully understand the injuries that were occurring including the risk factors.  Once that is understood  there are several injury prevention strategies that can be employed-as stated by others who responded.

With regard to physical injuries colleagues who have preceded me have exhibited widely across the range of possible preventive measures. I would stress the importance of proper preliminary functional assessment at the onset of any sport activity. The latter allows us to acquire the basic parameters for a rational exercise prescription, and proper planning of activities in the course of the competitive season. César Adrianzen was the only one to cite the ECG to prevent sudden cardiac death. In this connection in Italy is mandatory, the complete cardiological screening to obtain the certificate of fitness to the practice of a competitive sports.