Advanced Treatment Monitoring for Olympic-Level Athletes Using Unsupervised Modeling Techniques

Journal of Athletic Training
Jacob A SiedlikJohn P Vardiman

Abstract

Analysis of injury and illness data collected at large international competitions provides the US Olympic Committee and the national governing bodies for each sport with information to best prepare for future competitions. Research in which authors have evaluated medical contacts to provide the expected level of medical care and sports medicine services at international competitions is limited. To analyze the medical-contact data for athletes, staff, and coaches who participated in the 2011 Pan American Games in Guadalajara, Mexico, using unsupervised modeling techniques to identify underlying treatment patterns. Descriptive epidemiology study. Pan American Games. A total of 618 U.S. athletes (337 males, 281 females) participated in the 2011 Pan American Games. Medical data were recorded from the injury-evaluation and injury-treatment forms used by clinicians assigned to the central US Olympic Committee Sport Medicine Clinic and satellite locations during the operational 17-day period of the 2011 Pan American Games. We used principal components analysis and agglomerative clustering algorithms to identify and define grouped modalities. Lift statistics were calculated for within-cluster subgroups. Principal component analyses ide...Continue Reading

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