Survey of juggling practitioners: to study injuries and pain associated with juggling

Juggling in 2025-2026, injuries and pain - version for English-speaking jugglers

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Who are we? Medical doctors, practitioners or former practitioners of circus arts, wishing to improve the care of jugglers in the broadest sense and set up strategies to prevent their injuries, will they be of gradual or sudden onset. Who are you? You are a juggler. Objective of this questionnaire: To study injuries and pain associated with juggling. To find out about juggling in 2025-2026. To describe the various injuries and pains experienced by jugglers. To identify factors contributing to their occurrence. To identify factors that could protect against their occurrence. To date, no scientific study has been published or can be consulted specifically on these topics. We are interested in all your injuries and pain: whether they are avoidable or unavoidable, whether they are "small" or "big", whether they are benign or serious. For example, injuries related to juggling such as knocks, broken nails, fingernails turned inside out, etc. are just as important to us as an accidental open fracture, a stress fracture due to overuse, tendinopathy caused by repetitive movements, etc. This questionnaire is strictly confidential and optional. It is for adults only. It is part of the work of the "Live Performances" section of the PEPR ICCARE program. This program, led by the French National Centre for Scientific Research (Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS), aims to "accompany [and support], through research, the [Cultural & Creative Industries] sector in its transformation and adaptation to the digital, economic and social challenges of tomorrow". Its results will be published in an international peer-reviewed journal. This questionnaire is divided into 4 parts: General information about you. Your juggling experiences. Injuries and pain, you have suffered in the course of your juggling activities or outside your juggling activities but had impact on them. Description of one of the injuries or pains that has most threatened your juggling. This questionnaire is not a vote, nor a poll, but a survey. As a result, it may take you some time to complete it. This time is highly dependent on your answers and your willingness to share your experience. The questionnaire was designed in part on the basis of the work published as methodological recommendations by the "Injury Surveillance in Circus Research" working group of the "International Olympic Committee" in 2022. Questionnaire completion time: from 20 to 45 minutes. Several questions or groups of questions are optional. Only answers to questions preceded by an asterisk (*) are required to continue the questionnaire. The other asterisks (*), inserted in the text of the questions, refer to inserts containing information, examples and definitions. If you need to, you can record your participation so that you can pause it and come back later to finish providing us with your answers: - on a computer: usually in the top right-hand corner of the survey window, via the top banner, you will find a greyed-out "Resume later" link; - on a smartphone: usually at the top left of the survey window, via the context menu, you will find a greyed-out "Resume later" link. If you do not save your participation before pausing, you will not be able to return to it later. Questionnaire open period: 12 months, from 15 December 2025 to 15 December 2026. Withdrawal policy: Your participation in this research is entirely free and voluntary. Data management: The personal data you have provided will be processed in order to analyse the research results in relation to the objectives of the study. Access to results: Once the data relating to this research has been analysed, you can request to be informed of the results by the researchers who conducted the research by sending an email to the following address: kim.martinet@etu.sorbonne-universite.fr. As soon as the results will be published, we will be happy to share them with you . Once you have submitted your participation, you will no longer have access to the questionnaire and we will then be able to get access to it in order to analyse the anonymised results. This survey is anonymous. The record of your survey responses does not contain any identifying information about you, unless a specific survey question explicitly asked for it. If you used an identifying access code to access this survey, please rest assured that this code will not be stored together with your responses. It is managed in a separate database and will only be updated to indicate whether you did (or did not) complete this survey. There is no way of matching identification access codes with survey responses.