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Research Objectives
To highlight the demographic and clinical characteristics of injured athletes and
non-athletes and the physiotherapy services provided during the PyeongChang 2018 Winter
Paralympic Games.
Design
Prospective descriptive epidemiology study.
Setting
Physiotherapy Department of Paralympic Village Polyclinic, Republic of Korea, during
the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Paralympic Games.
Participants
The study group comprised 201 participants (51 athletes and 150 non-athletes) who
were admitted to and utilized the polyclinic physiotherapy service from March 1 to
March 20, 2018.
Interventions
The five major comprehensive physiotherapy services included advice (counseling, consultation,
referral), therapeutic exercise, manual manipulative therapy, therapeutic modalities,
and assistive (prophylactic) devices. The selection of physiotherapy service items
was based on the recommendation and guidelines of International Olympic Committee
(IOC)/IPC medical commissions and clinical evidence in current literature.
Main Outcome Measures
Types and number of patients and number of physiotherapy modalities used.
Results
Chronic injuries were the most common (n=100, 51%) in athletes and non-athletes. Anatomical
injury site analysis revealed the spine and shoulder areas were injured with equal
frequency for athletes (n=14, 54.9%) and non-athletes, with the frequencies of 36.7%
(n=55) and 26% (n=39), respectively. The Pyeongchang WPG showed a high rate of athletes
visiting the physiotherapy service during the pre-competition period (n=50, 33.3%),
perhaps led to a lower incidence rate of traumatic injury. The physiotherapy treatment
service analysis demonstrated that manual therapy (n=230, 35.4%) was most commonly
utilized.
Conclusions
We established the importance of prophylactic and preventive physiotherapy services
to reduce the risk of sports injuries during WPG.
Author(s) Disclosures
The authors report no conflict of interest.
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