Transient injuries are a problem in field hockey: A prospective one‐season cohort study
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Abstract
Injury definitions encompass all physical complaints, medical attention, and time loss. Expressing injury burden in terms of short- and long-term impact on athlete performance may be meaningful for coaches in terms of preparation. Therefore, our aim was to describe transient (symptoms <7 days) and substantial (symptoms ≥7 days) injuries suffered in field hockey throughout the Irish Hockey League (IHL). Following ethical approval, participants were assigned unique accounts to record injuries through a monitoring software. An all physical complaints definition was adopted. Team physiotherapists were contacted weekly to further capture and corroborate details on injuries. Transient and substantial injury classifications were applied. A total of 173 injuries in 14 690 exposure hours (11.8/1000 h) occurred. Incidence of medical attention (n = 119) and time-loss (n = 70) injuries was 8.1/1000 h and 4.8/1000 h. Teams suffered transient injuries every 2.3 weeks (median = 2, IQR = 4) at a rate of 6.3/1000 h and substantial injuries every 2.5 weeks (median = 1.5, IQR = 3.25) at a rate of 5.5/1000 h. The lower back and knee were common transient injuries (7.5%), with the hamstring a common substantial injury (11.6%). Although many field hockey injuries are substantial, transient injuries are equally as frequent. These additional means of classifying injuries inform teams of the injuries that will cause disruption within their squad.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.004 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
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