Having a complete history, as past injuries is the single biggest predictor of future injury.
Detailed injury records help coaches, trainers and athletes identify weaknesses, predict future injuries and design training sessions that accommodate and work with an athlete's history.
Sharing your injury history with a medical practitioner can help them:
- understand your injury better,
- identify weak spots to focus on,
- understand the impact on other body parts through compensating movements
- Build better rehabilitation plans
Injury History coupled with your ACWR (Workload) information can provide insights into your performance that professional athletes enjoy.
Concussions
This is particularly important for concussions, leaving concussion history to memory and guess work can lead to some dangerous decisions. This information is critical to concussion experts, as you can provide them details of your past concussions, including:
- Features, Red Flags & Symptoms
- Symptom Severity
- Recovery information - What symptoms presented in the days after - How long the symptoms presented - How fast or slow did the symptom severity reduce - Did the symptom severity increase in the period after the incident - Did new symptoms appear after the incident
Confirmed or diagnosed concussions are important to paint a pitcure of an athletes concussion history, however all concussion assessment can also provide important information. For example, an athlete that has had multiple concussion assessments over a period of time - regardless of the outcome - this may provide some insight into the athlete wellbeing
AthHQ provides this information, regardless of the sports played, or the club the athlete plays.
AthHQ provides the athlete with an “Athlete Injury Passport”.