Physiological Evidence for the Time-dependent Resolution of Response Conflicts.

“In any special doctrine of nature, there can be only as much proper science as there is mathematics therein”—Immanuel Kant [] In the realm of competitive sports, the prevention of athletic injuries is considered paramount for the longevity and well-being of athletes and the overall success of sports teams and individual performances. However, despite its widely recognised importance and an extensive body of research on the topic, the regular occurrence of sports injuries is persistent. In some contexts, injury rates have remained relatively stable or increased over several years, as seen with hamstring injuries [, ]; encouragingly, some improvements in injury rates have been observed in others []. Nevertheless, injuries continue to be a major concern for athletes, practitioners, and sporting organisations. To assist, it is widely considered that prognostic models predicting athletic injury occurrences may offer considerable practical utility for their prevention, assuming an appropriate opportunity for intervention exists. While this is not a certainty, and impact studies examining the effect of any prognostic model on athletic injury outcomes would ultimately be needed, owing to its great potential, prediction has been labelled “The Modern-Day Sport-Science and Sports-Medicine ‘Quest for the Holy Grail’” []. However, the dynamic and complex nature of sports activities, coupled with suboptimal methodological approaches [, ], has proven to be a major obstacle in the ‘quest’ for accurate, actionable, and transportable (Table ) athletic injury predictions.