Introduction:

Sports injuries generate a series of complications that limit the useful life of the athlete. High-performance sports constitute an attack on the body, increasing the frequency of injure occurrence. However, a reduction in these can be achieved through physioprophylactic work by the coaches of each sport.

Objective:

To design an upgrading strategy to improve the professional performance of coaches for injury prevention in karate-do.

Materials and methods:

The study was classified as research-action, qualitative type. It was carried out between January and September 2023, and was performed with 15 karate-do trainers. Theoretical and empirical methods were used.

Results:

A four-stages upgrading strategy was designed: approach and diagnosis, planning, implementation and evaluation.

Conclusions:

The foundation of the upgrading strategy allows establishing essential relationships that contribute to the theory in this area of knowledge. The structure of the proposed strategy is in correspondence with the assumed fundamentals and contributes to guiding karate-do coaches to prevent injuries in this sport.

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