Application US20210295184

Predicting And Mitigating Athlete Injury Risk
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US20210295184

1. A method comprising: (5) (9)

accessing a player workload history;

accessing a player injury history;

accessing a team match schedule associated with a team;

assessing a player injury risk associated with a player including analyzing one or more player physical stress aspects based on the player workload history, the player injury history, and the team match schedule;

accessing a prescribed player training schedule;

predicting future player injury risk including performing match-to-match micro-cycle analysis and formulating a purported upcoming player workload considering time since last match and time until next match, including: calculating the purported upcoming player workload based on the team match schedule and the prescribed player training schedule;

understanding the risk factors that historically increased injury risk for the player; and

calculating the predicted future player injury risk in view of the player injury risk and based on the risk factors, the purported upcoming player workload, and repetition of prior observations related to the team match schedule and a team training schedule associated with the team;

determining that the predicted future player injury risk exceeds an injury risk threshold;

deriving a workload template defining a revised upcoming player workload based on understanding of the purported upcoming player workload, the revised upcoming player workload sufficiently reducing the predicted future player injury risk and minimizing player workload reduction in view of the predicted future player injury risk and the injury risk threshold; and

sending a report including an indication of the predicted future player injury risk exceeding the injury risk threshold and including the workload template.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein performing match-to-match micro-cycle analysis comprises determining a match-to-match micro-cycle phase is one day before a match. (0)

3. The method of claim 1, wherein deriving a workload template comprises identifying a training session. (0)

4. The method of claim 1, wherein deriving a workload template comprises: (1) (2)

identifying at least one unique category included in the risk factors; and

deriving workload template in view of the at least one unique category.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein assessing a player injury risk comprises: (1) (2)

creating a reference data point based on the player workload history and the purported upcoming player workload; and

calculating a player risk score from the reference data point.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein deriving the workload template comprises retaining the reference data point as the workload template; and (0) (1)

7. The method of claim 1, further comprising accessing one or more of: player strength tests, player fitness tests, or player wellbeing data; and (0) (1)

8. The method of claim 1, further comprising sending an alert indicative of the assessed a player injury risk to team personnel associated with the player; and (0) (1)

9. A computer system comprising: (5) (2)

a processor;

system memory coupled to the processor and storing instructions configured to cause the processor to: access a player workload history;

access a player injury history;

access a team match schedule associated with a team;

assess a player injury risk associated with a player including analyzing one or more player physical stress aspects based on the player workload history, the player injury history, and the team match schedule;

access a prescribed player training schedule;

predict future player injury risk including performing match-to-match micro-cycle analysis and formulating a purported upcoming player workload considering time since last match and time until next match, including: calculate the purported upcoming player workload based on the team match schedule and the prescribed player training schedule;

understand the risk factors that historically increased injury risk for the player; and

calculate the predicted future player injury risk in view of the player injury risk and based on the risk factors, the purported upcoming player workload, and repetition of prior observations related to the team match schedule and a team training schedule associated with the team;

determine that the predicted future player injury risk exceeds an injury risk threshold;

derive a workload template defining a revised upcoming player workload based on understanding of the purported upcoming player workload, the revised upcoming player workload sufficiently reducing the predicted future player injury risk and minimizing player workload reduction in view of the predicted future player injury risk and the injury risk threshold; and

send a report including an indication of the predicted future player injury risk exceeding the injury risk threshold and including the workload template.

10. The system of claim 9, wherein instructions configured to perform match-to-match micro-cycle analysis comprise instructions configured to determine a match-to-match micro-cycle phase is one day before a match. (0)

11. The system of claim 9, wherein instructions configured to derive a workload template comprise instructions configured to identify a training session. (0)

12. The system of claim 9, wherein instructions configured to derive a workload template comprise instructions configured to: (1) (2)

identify at least one unique category included in the risk factors; and

derive workload template in view of the at least one unique category.

13. The system of claim 12, wherein instructions configured to assess a player injury risk comprise instructions configured to: (1) (2)

create a reference data point based on the player workload history and the purported upcoming player workload; and

calculate a player risk score from the reference data point.

14. The system of claim 13, wherein instructions configured to derive the workload template comprise instructions configured to retain the reference data point as the workload template; and (0) (1)

15. The system of claim 9, further comprising instructions configured to access one or more of: player strength tests, player fitness tests, or player wellbeing data; and (0) (1)

16. The method of claim 9, further comprising instructions configured to send an alert indicative of the assessed a player injury risk to team personnel associated with the player; and (0) (1)

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Application US20210295184

Predicting And Mitigating Athlete Injury Risk

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