The sleep as a predictor of musculoskeletal injuries in adolescent athletes

Objectives: Sleep is essential for musculoskeletal and cognitive recovery. Adolescent athletes tend to sleep poorly compared to adults and it may predispose them to sports injuries. Our aims are to estimate whether the quantity/quality of sleep are associated with sports injuries in adolescent athle...

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Autores: Fernanda Viegas, Juliana Melo Ocarino, Luísa de Sousa Freitas, Marina Costa Pinto, Lucas Alves Facundo, Adriana Souza Amaral, Samuel Silva, Marco Túlio de Mello, Andressa Silva
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2022
País:Brasil
Institución:Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG)
Repositorio:Repositório Institucional da UFMG
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:repositorio.ufmg.br:1843/64403
Acceso en línea:http://dx.doi.org/10.5935/1984-0063.20220055
http://hdl.handle.net/1843/64403
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9051-3103
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9404-1695
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1165-4176
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1202-5526
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3896-2208
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Sleep
Athletic injuries
Sports
Athletes
Adolescent
Sono
Traumatismos em Atletas
Esportes
Atletas
Adolescente
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Sumario:Objectives: Sleep is essential for musculoskeletal and cognitive recovery. Adolescent athletes tend to sleep poorly compared to adults and it may predispose them to sports injuries. Our aims are to estimate whether the quantity/quality of sleep are associated with sports injuries in adolescent athletes and to compare the quantity/quality of sleep between the training and competition seasons, and the school vacation period. Material and Methods: It was a cohort study with 19 track and field athletes of both sexes, aged between 12 and 21 years. We evaluated their sleep-wake habit through actigraphy during three phases: 1 - mid-season, 2 - competition, and 3 - school vacation. The previous six months injury history and the occurrence of injuries in a six-month follow-up were recorded. Logistic regression and variance analysis were performed. The significance level used was 0.05.Results: Wake after sleep onset (WASO) predicted previous injuries (OR=1.144) and time awake (TA) predicted injury occurrence (OR=0.974). TA decreased from phase 2 to phase 3 (p=0.004), total sleep time (TST) increased from phase 2 to phase 3 (p=0.012), and WASO decreased between phases 1 and 2 (p=0.001) and between phases 1 and 3 (p=0.025).Conclusion: Our study demonstrated that the quantity and quality of sleep were associated with musculoskeletal injuries in adolescent track and field athletes. Previous injuries were predicted by WASO and the occurrence of injuries was predicted by TA. Furthermore, during the vacation period they had lower TA and WASO, and higher TST than on school days.