Occupational Therapy and Prevention of Common Sports Injuries for Special Physical Training.
Tao Lei, Yi Huang, Zhijuan Zhou
PMID 35854943WHAT IT FOUND
This paper is retracted.
It claims to validate a sports injury screening tool and a rehabilitation protocol, but the internal contradictions in its methods and participant numbers make the findings unreliable.
What this paper is
This paper has been retracted. It presents a mix of a proposed screening tool (LEFT) and a rehabilitation protocol, but the reported methods and results contain significant internal inconsistencies (e.g., participant numbers in the methods section do not match the results section, and the study design descriptions are contradictory). Consequently, the findings regarding the reliability of the LEFT tool and the efficacy of the rehabilitation intervention cannot be trusted or applied to clinical practice.
The easy way to misread this
Do not use the LEFT tool or the TCM/aquatic rehabilitation protocol described in this paper. The publication is retracted due to fundamental errors in reporting, meaning the evidence base for these interventions is invalid.