ADAPTED JUDO INJURY DATA

This is data from a adapted version of a questionnaire created by Fagher et al. (2019). The original questionnaire focused on judo-related injuries experienced by judo athletes with visual impairment and other paralympic sports. Participants were asked to provide the same demographic information as in the original: age, gender, weight class, hours of training a week and participation in other sports. However, while the original instrument asks about participants’ degree of visual impairment, in this case they were asked to indicate their ability level classification in accordance with the levels established by the Special Olympics for judo competitions for people with ID (Special Olympics, 2022), see table 1. An additional question was added to indicate whether the questionnaire had been completed by the solely by the athlete or if assistance had been provided by guardians, coaches, or other caregivers.In addition to the demographic information, participants were asked whether they had experienced injuries that had affected their normal training or competition regimen over the past year, regardless of whether the injury had led to missed training time or competitions. If participants answered affirmatively, they were then asked questions about how much training time they had lost, the type of injury they had experienced, the mechanism of injury (standing technique or tachi waza, ground technique or ne waza, or other), the body part affected and the diagnosis. In order to categorize the seriousness of the injuries in terms of time missed, this study followed the system recommended by the International Olympic Committee (Bahr et al., 2020), which establishes the following values: 0 days, 1 to 7 days, 8 to 28 days, or &gt;28 days missed. The reported injuries were categorized using a matrix for classifying musculoskeletal diagnoses into body location, type of injury and diagnosis according to the 11th revision of the International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems (ICD-11) (World Health Organization, 2022).On some occasions, the questionnaire was administered in person via interviews conducted at the competitions held during the data collection period, while other participants completed the instrument via an online form. Data were entered into a spreadsheet for the purposes of statistical analysis.<br>