Safety in sports and physical activity is an important prerequisite for maintenance of a healthy physically active lifestyle, as well as continuing participation in sports. For this reason, prevention, reduction, and control of sports injuries are important goals, not only for clinicians and researchers but also for society as a whole. In 1992, van Mechelen et al. (5) postulated that measures to prevent sports injuries do not stand by themselves; they form part of what they called the sequence of prevention. Over the past decade, the sequence of prevention has been adopted widely in sports injury research and arguably is the most extensively used theoretical framework in our field of research. There is no doubt that its use in sports injury research has led to a wide array of preventive measures for various injuries within different sports. However, recently, debate has arisen about the "true" effect of thus attained preventive measures in a real-life sports setting. As stated by Finch (3), only research outcomes that are adopted by athletes, coaches, and other intermediaries actually will prevent injuries. The question then is, "how do we make sure research outcomes are adopted and effectively used by stakeholders?"
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