Elke Cumps

Publications (10)3.07 Total impact

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  Available from: Romain Meeusen

  Article: Efficacy of a 3 month training program on the jump-landing technique in jump-landing sports. Design of a cluster randomized controlled trial.

  Inne Aerts, Elke Cumps, Evert Verhagen, Romain Meeusen
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  ABSTRACT: With the relatively high rate of injuries to the lower extremity due to jump-landing movement patterns and the accompanied high costs, there is need for determining potential preventive programs. A program on the intervention of jump-landing technique is possibly an important preventative measure since it appeared to reduce the incidence of lower extremity injuries. In real life situations, amateur sports lack the infrastructure and funds to have a sports physician or therapist permanently supervising such a program. Therefore the current prevention program is designed so that it could be implemented by coaches alone. The objective of this randomized controlled trial is to evaluate the effect of a coach supervised intervention program targeting jump-landing technique on the incidence of lower extremity injuries. Of the 110 Flemish teams of the elite division, 24 teams are included and equally randomized to two study groups. An equal selection of female and male teams with allocation to intervention and control group is obtained. The program is a modification of other prevention programs previously proven to be effective. All exercises in the current program are adjusted so that a more progressive development in the exercise is presented. Both the control and intervention group continue with their normal training routine, while the intervention group carries out the program on jump-landing technique. The full intervention program has a duration of three months and is performed 2 times a week during warm-up (5-10 min). Injuries are registered during the entire season. The results of this study can give valuable information on the effect of a coach supervised intervention program on jump-landing technique and injury occurrence. Results will become available in 2011. Trial registration number: NTR2560.
  BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 01/2010; 11:281. · 1.58 Impact Factor
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  Chapter: Strategieën ter preventie van enkeldistorsies en voorstekruisbandletsels

  Elke Cumps, Inne Aerts, Romain Meeusen
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  ABSTRACT: Dit hoofdstuk geeft een overzicht van maatregelen die efficiënt zijn ter preventie van letsels bij volleybal en basketbal. De meest voorkomende letsels bij beide sporten zijn enkeldistorsies. De ernstigste letsels zijn die van de voorste kruisband. Een recent concept ter preventie van voorstekruisbandletsels is neuromusculaire training. Neuromusculaire training bestaat uit verscheidene trainingsmodaliteiten: sportspecifieke technieken (educatie), proprioceptieve balanstraining, krachttraining, snelheid en ‘agility’, en plyometrie (techniek). Bij neuromusculaire training wordt het accent gelegd op de kwaliteit van de uitvoering, niet op de kwantiteit. Er wordt een overzicht gegeven van de beoordeling, remediëring en training van spronglandingstechnieken. Ook wordt de effectiviteit van proprioceptieve balanstraining ter preventie van (recidiverende) enkeldistorsies besproken en worden eenvoudige richtlijnen gegeven om toe te passen in de praktijk of op het sportveld.
  12/2008: pages 23-44;
• Article: Effect of a preventive intervention programme on the prevalence of anterior knee pain in volleyball players

  Elke Cumps, Evert Verhagen, S Duerinck, A Devillé, L Duchene, Romain Meeusen
  European Journal of Sports Science. 06/2008; 8(4):183-192.
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  Article: Newspaper coverage of women's sports during the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games: Belgium, Denmark, France, and Italy.

  Laura Capranica, Carlo Minganti, Veronique Billat, Signe Hanghoj, Maria Francesca Piacentini, Elke Cumps, Romain Meeusen
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  ABSTRACT: In general, women are well represented among sport participants and sport audiences but not in the media. Data show that women's sport is greatly underreported and trivialized in newspapers. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to measure press coverage during the 2000 Summer Olympic Games in the largest circulating Belgian, Danish, French, and Italian daily newspapers by: (a) number of articles, (b) size, (c) page placement, (d) accompanyingphotographs, and (e) photograph size. For each sport covered, the athletes' nationality and the gender were recorded. Compared to the 1996 Atlanta Games, there was an increase of 326 female athletes (+4 %), and women competed in 25 sports and 132 events (44 %) of the total 300 events. Although only 29.3 % of the articles and 38 % of photos were on women 's sports, the newspaper coverage was similar to the distribution of participating athletes and events. No significant gender differences were found with respect to article size, page placement, accompanying photographs, or photograph size. The most covered sport was track and field, independent of national achievement. Other sports received different coverage in relation to national expectations, achievement, and participation. In conclusion, there was a trend to overcome gender inequities in media coverage during the Olympic Games, which may be due to the International Olympic Committee's actions to promote increased participation of women in sport activities and to publicize their achievements. Moreover, during the Olympic Games, a nationalistic fervor might affect the equality of gender coverage.
  Research quarterly for exercise and sport 07/2005; 76(2):212-23. · 1.49 Impact Factor
• Article: Injury rate and socioeconomic costs resulting from sports injuries in Flanders: data derived from sports insurance statistics 2003.

  Elke Cumps, Lieve Annemans, Romain Meeusen
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  ABSTRACT: OBJECTIVE:This study determines the injury rate (%) and the associated direct medical and indirect costs of sports injuries in Flanders.
  British journal of sports medicine. 42(9):767-772.
• Article: Prospective epidemiological study of basketball injuries during one competitive season

  Elke Cumps, Romain Meeusen
  Journal of Sports Science and …. 6:204-211.
• Article: Efficacy of a sports specific balance training programme on the incidence of ankle sprains in basketball

  Elke Cumps, Romain Meeusen
  Journal of Sports Science and …. 6:212-219.
• Article: Effect of a preventive intervention programme on the prevalence of anterior knee pain in volleyball players

  Elke Cumps, Evert Verhagen, S Duerinck
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  ABSTRACT: ... DOI: 10.1080/17461390802067711 E . Cumps a , EA Verhagen b , S. Duerinck a , A. Devillé a , L. Duchene a & R. Meeusen a * pages 183-192. Available online: 05 Jun 2008. ... Cumps , E ., Verhagen , E . and Meeusen, R. 2007. ...
• Article: Efficacy of a sports specific balance training programme on the incidence of ankle sprains in basketball

  Elke Cumps, Evert Verhagen, Romain Meeusen
  6:212-219.
• Article: Prospective epidemiological study of basketball injuries during one competitive season

  Elke Cumps, Evert Verhagen, Romain Meeusen
  6:204-211.