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Front. Physiol.
Sec. Exercise Physiology
Volume 16 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fphys.2025.1506611
This article is part of the Research Topic Physical, Physiological and Technical Development in Youth Athletes View all 7 articles

Investigating the Effects of Previous Injury on Subsequent Training Loads, Physical Fitness, and Injuries in Youth Female Basketball Players

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Yuanqi Huang Yuanqi Huang 1Shaonan Wang Shaonan Wang 1*Changfei Li Changfei Li 2*Yukun Wang Yukun Wang 3Zhanshuang Bai Zhanshuang Bai 4Binghao Lv Binghao Lv 1*Yuheng Gui Yuheng Gui 2*Zhongjian Wei Zhongjian Wei 5*
  • 1 Fujian Normal University, Fuzhou, China
  • 2 Fujian Provincial Basketball and Volleyball Centre, Fuzhou, Fujian Province, China
  • 3 School of Sport and Recreation, Auckland University of Technology, Auckland, New Zealand
  • 4 Bangkokthonburi University, Thawi Watthana District, Thailand
  • 5 Hezhou University, Hezhou, China

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    Background: Previous studies have shown that athletes accustomed to higher chronic workloads are less susceptible to injury than those exposed to lower chronic workloads. However, few studies have evaluated whether previous injury influences them. Therefore, this study investigated the impact of previous injuries on subsequent training loads, physical fitness, and injury rates in female youth basketball players.Training load, physical fitness, and injuries of 18 young female basketball players (age 16.8±1.4 years) were monitored. Previous injury status was clustered using the K-means clustering algorithm to separate players into high-risk and low-risk groups. Linear mixed models were used to analyze the effects of previous injury status on subsequent training load and physical fitness. Meanwhile, the differences between the players' injury groups were analyzed.Results: Previous injury status can significantly impact a player's subsequent training loads, including acute loads, chronic loads, skill-based training loads, training monotony, and training strain (all p ＜ 0.05). The two groups had no significant differences in physical fitness (all p ＞ 0.05). Furthermore, the incidence of non-contact injuries was significantly higher in the high-risk group than low-risk group, which would result in more training time lost (all p＜0.05).Conclusions: This study identified the impact of previous injury status on subsequent training load, physical fitness, and injuries in youth female basketball players. These findings provide valuable insight for coaches to optimize training loads according to previous injury status, aiming to minimize the likelihood of subsequent injuries.

    Keywords: training load, Physical Fitness, injury, Youth, Basketball

    Received: 05 Oct 2024; Accepted: 09 Jan 2025.

    Copyright: © 2025 Huang, Wang, Li, Wang, Bai, Lv, Gui and Wei. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

    * Correspondence:
    Shaonan Wang, Fujian Normal University, Fuzhou, China
    Changfei Li, Fujian Provincial Basketball and Volleyball Centre, Fuzhou, Fujian Province, China
    Binghao Lv, Fujian Normal University, Fuzhou, China
    Yuheng Gui, Fujian Provincial Basketball and Volleyball Centre, Fuzhou, Fujian Province, China
    Zhongjian Wei, Hezhou University, Hezhou, 542899, China

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