title: Protecting the health of the @hlete: how online technology may aid our common goal to prevent injury and illness in sport.
abstract: Online technology dominates our era and eHealth has become a reality for sports clinicians and researchers. Contemporary online platforms enable self-monitoring and provide tailored feedback to the different stakeholders who play a role in the health and care of athletes. Innovations such as digital monitoring, mobile applications and connected hardware provide the critical tools to solve current enigmas in sports medicine research, and to streamline and facilitate injury prevention, management and rehabilitation. eHealth is not an emerging future of sports medicine-the technology to move our field forward in terms of research and practice is already available. This Analysis is based on Evert Verhagen's keynote presentation at the IOC World Conference on Injury and Illness Prevention in Sport (Monaco, 12 April 2014). It outlines the use of eHealth in research, implementation and practice, and provides an overview of possibilities and opportunities that existing and emerging eHealth solutions provide for sports and exercise medicine and physiotherapy.
authors.affiliation: Department of Public and Occupational Health, EMGO Institute for Health and Care Research, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Australian Centre for Research into Injury in Sport and its Prevention (ACRISP), Federation University Australia, SMB Campus, Ballarat, Victoria, Australia.
authors.forename: Evert
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Verhagen
authors.affiliation: Department of Physical Therapy, Minas Tênis Clube, Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
authors.forename: Caroline
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Bolling
mesh_terms: D001265:Athletic Injuries / Q000517:prevention & control*; D020811:Biomedical Technology; D016494:Computer Security; D006040:Goals; D006801:Humans; D063731:Mobile Applications; D040241:Social Marketing; D061108:Social Media; D013177:Sports / Q000502:physiology*; D013178:Sports Medicine / Q000379:methods* / Q000458:organization & administration; D017216:Telemedicine
keywords: Epidemiology; Intervention; Knowledge translation; Research; Social media