Sports Injury Analytics Dashboard – Driving Athlete Safety & Performance

Objective to build an advanced Sports Injury Analytics Dashboard in Power BI that helps sports teams, coaches, and medical staff reduce reporting effort, improve injury tracking accuracy, and gain actionable insights to enhance athlete safety, recovery, and performance.

Project Overview

A sports performance department needed a centralized reporting system to analyze 15,000+ injury records across multiple sports, teams, and competitions. The existing process was manual, time-consuming, and lacked unified KPIs for injury prevention and recovery. The goal was to design an end-to-end Power BI solution that would deliver real-time visibility into injuries, recovery, treatment effectiveness, and risk patterns.

Challenge

Managing a large, complex dataset with multiple dimensions (athlete, injury type, treatment, event, location).

Ensuring all KPIs and measures (recurrence rates, recovery duration, severity index, etc.) were accurate and meaningful.

Designing a compact yet comprehensive layout, with 4–6 visuals per page while avoiding clutter.

Building an intuitive navigation experience across multiple reports, including Drill through athlete profiles.

Representing body part injuries effectively using a custom Body Shape Map visual.

Our Solution

We developed an end-to-end Power BI dashboard tailored to healthcare KPIs, offering:

Holistic Injury Monitoring

Delivered a centralized dashboard providing real-time tracking of injury counts, severity, recurrence rates, and recovery status.

Cause & Risk Identification

Enabled detailed analysis of injury causes (contact, non-contact, overuse) and conditions (surface type, event type, competition level) to pinpoint high-risk scenarios.

Recovery & Treatment Insights

Provided clear visibility into recovery durations, treatment effectiveness, and return-to-play timelines to guide medical staff in selecting optimal treatment plans.

Team & Athlete Profiling

Equipped coaches and managers with reports comparing injury trends across teams, sports, and individual athletes, ensuring targeted interventions.

Interactive Body Map Visualization

Introduced an intuitive body shape map to highlight injury-prone areas, helping stakeholders focus on prevention and tailored training strategies.

Impact & Outcome

Improved Decision-Making

Enabled coaches and medical staff to identify high-risk injury types, conditions, and sports.

Optimized Recovery Strategies

Provided clear insights into treatment effectiveness and return timelines.

Injury Prevention

Highlighted recurring injury trends and surface/sport-related risks to inform training modifications.

Athlete Welfare Focus

Athlete-level profiles allowed teams to monitor health histories and ensure safe return-to-play protocols.

Scalable Reporting

The modular design can be expanded to include more sports, treatment types, or predictive analytics.

Report / Screenshots

Interect with the live dashboard below.

Technology Stack

Power BI – Data modeling, DAX measures, dashboard design.
MySQL Database – Source injury records in star schema.
Custom Visuals – Body Shape Map, Synoptic Panel, Decomposition Tree.
DAX – Advanced measures for recurrence rates, recovery durations, rolling metrics.

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