Assessing the risk for major injuries in equestrian sports

Krüger, Lara; Hohberg, Maike; Lehmann, Wolfgang; Dresing, K.

doi:10.1136/bmjsem-2018-000408

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“…The use of a helmet for some may suggest an element of 'risk compensation' whereby a human changes their behaviour becoming more careful when sensing increased risk, and with a helmet less careful if they feel protected. However, many horse handlers and riders continue to sustain serious head-body trauma and even die when wearing a helmet [118]. While personal protective equipment (PPE) should be part of human-horse risk management, it is rated as the 'lowest' and 'least' effective safety control for any 'high-risk' activity including human-horse interactions [17,[119][120][121].…”

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What People Really Think About Safety around Horses: The Relationship between Risk Perception, Values and Safety Behaviours

Chapman

Thomas

Thompson

2020

Animals

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The equestrian industry reports high rates of serious injuries, illness and fatalities when compared to other high-risk sports and work environments. To address these ongoing safety concerns, a greater understanding of the relationship between human risk perception, values and safety behaviours is required. This paper presents results from an international survey that explored relationships between a respondents’ willingness to take risk during daily activities along with, their perceptions of risk and behaviours during horse-related interactions. Respondents’ comments around risk management principles and safety-first inspirations were also analysed. We examined what humans think about hazardous situations or activities and how they managed risk with suitable controls. Analysis identified three important findings. First, safe behaviours around horses were associated with safety training (formal and/or informal). Second, unsafe behaviours around horses were associated with higher levels of equestrian experience as well as income from horse-related work. Finally, findings revealed a general acceptance of danger and imminent injury during horse interactions. This may explain why some respondents de-emphasised or ‘talked-down’ the importance of safety-first principles. In this paper we predominantly reported quantitative findings of respondents self-reported safety behaviours, general and horse-related risk perceptions despite injury or illness. We discussed the benefits of improved safety-first principles like training, risk assessments, rider-horse match with enriched safety communications to enhance risk-mitigation during human–horse interactions.

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Section: Ppe Best Form Of Safety Controlmentioning

confidence: 99%

What People Really Think About Safety around Horses: The Relationship between Risk Perception, Values and Safety Behaviours

Chapman

Thomas

Thompson

2020

Animals

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“…The show jumping collective of Lechler et al uncharacteristically consists of 50.4% male riders [ 8 ]. In the present study, male participants account for 30.9% of the participants which is more prevalent than other discipline-independent equestrian studies at 12 to 13% [ 13 , 14 ]. In publications with larger athlete collectives, the average age of the athletes is 25.7 to 26.6 years, very similar to the present study [ 13 , 14 ].…”

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Injuries and Overuse Injuries in Show Jumping—A Retrospective Epidemiological Cross-Sectional Study of Show Jumpers in Germany

Meyer

Scheidgen

Polan

et al. 2022

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This retrospective cross-sectional epidemiological study deals with sport-specific injury patterns in show jumping. A total of 363 show jumpers of all levels (S) answered a retrospective questionnaire about injuries and overuse damages which occurred in the course of their careers. Demographic data and information on injuries in various body regions were collected. In addition to descriptive analysis, significance tests were performed. For better statistical comparability with other sports, exposure time was extrapolated with total career duration and weekly training hours, and injuries per 1000 jumping hours were calculated. The study included 251 (69%) women and 112 (31%) men, who were on average 26.9 ± 10.9 years old. The injury rate for the entire collective was 3.7 per 1000 h of exposure. The most frequently affected body region was the head (31%). Overuse complaints play a subordinate role and mainly affect the upper extremities (65%). The riders of the professional lower performance levels are less likely to injure themselves per 1000 h than riders of the higher performance levels. Riders who often or always wore a helmet suffered significantly fewer head injuries (p = 0.008) and had a significantly lower total injury duration than riders who did not wear a helmet (p = 0.006). Similarly, the study showed that riders who often or always wore a safety vest suffered significantly fewer spinal injuries (p = 0.017) and had significantly fewer injuries per 1000 riding hours (p = 0.031) than riders who did not wear a safety vest. Based on the present results, there should be an extension of the general helmet requirement and a requirement to wear safety vests in show jumping in general.

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“…IMPACT OF AGE ON THE APPEARANCE OF ADVERSE EVENTSAT THE BEGINNING OF BIOLOGICAL TREATMENT: DATA FROM THE BIOBADASER 3.0 REGISTRY Paloma Vela-Casasempere 1,2,3 , Carlos Sánchez-Piedra 4 , Carolina Perez-Garcia 5 , Sara Manrique Arija 6 , María del Carmen Castro Villegas 7 , Blanca Garcia-Magallon 8 , Javier Manero 9 , Silvia Gomez-Sabater 2 , Rocio Caño-Alameda 2 , Fernando Sánchez-Alonso 4 ,le Federico Diaz-Gonzaz 4 , Jesus GomeJuan z-Reino 10 . 1 Alicante University General Hospital, Rheumatology, Alicante, Spain 2Isabial, Alicante, Spain; 3 Miguel Hernandez University, Clinical Medicine, San Juan, Spain; 4 Spanish Rheumatology Society, Research Unit, Madrid, Spain; 5 Hospital del mar, Rheumatology, Barcelona, Spain; 6 Hospital Carlos Haya, Rheumatology, Malaga, Spain; 7 Hospital Reina Sofia, Rheumatology, Cordoba, Spain; 8 Hospital San Jorge, Rheumatology, Huesca, Spain; 9 Hospital Miguel Servet, Rheumatology, Zaragoza, Spain; 10 Hospital de Santiago, Rheumatology, Santiago de Compostela, Spain Background: Currents medical advances are allowing patients with chronic arthritis to live to advanced ages.…”

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Sat0168 impact of Age on the Appearance of Adverse Eventsat the Beginning of Biological Treatment: Data From the Biobadaser 3.0 Registry

Vela‐Casasempere

Sánchez-Piedra

Pérez-García

et al. 2019

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BackgroundCurrents medical advances are allowing patients with chronic arthritis to live to advanced ages. Although the risks of biological therapies in elderly patients have been previously evaluated, data are scarce since they are mainly derived from clinical trials, in which elderly populations are often underrepresented or event excluded (patients up to 75 years old). In addition, comparisons between such studies are difficult in the absence of a consensus in defining the groups’ age.ObjectivesTo evaluate the impact of age on the appearance of adverse events (AE) in patients with rheumatic diseases (rheumatoid arthritis -RA-, ankylosing spondylitis -AS- and psoriatic arthritis -PsA) at the start of biological treatment.MethodsMulticenter prospective study in a real-world setting. Information was obtained from BIOBADASER, a national safety registry of patients with rheumatic diseases treated with biologics or targeted synthetic disease modifying anti-rheumatic drugs. For this analysis, all patients included in this registry since 2000 and diagnosed with RA, AS or PsA were included, and classified into four categories according to age at initiation of biologic treatment: young (< 25 years-old), adults (25-64 years-old), elderly (65-75 years-old) and very elderly (> 75 years-old). Data collected included: 1) patient’s data 2) data on treatment and 3) data on AE. Proportions, means and standard deviations were used to describe the population. Poisson regression model was carried out to explore factors associated with the appearance of AEs. Crude and adjusted incidence rate ratios (IRRs) were calculated.ResultsA total of 2531 patients were included: 1154 RA (45.59%), 680 PsA (26.87%), and 697 AS (27.54%). Age groups: there were 64 young patients (2.52%), 2166 adults (85.57%), 243 elderly adults (9.6%), and 58 very elderly adults (2.29%). Comorbidities increased with age, while smoking rates decreased. Methotrexate use was similar in all age groups (53.99% in the total sample), but corticosteroid treatment increased with age (young 27.7%, adults 47%, elderly adults 64.36% and the very elderly 70.21%). 77.87% received anti-TNF treatment, and 22.13% other biological drugs. Poisson regression model showed an increased probability of suffering a first adverse event with increasing age regardless of the disease (IRR for AS: 1.04 (0.87-1.26); IRR for PsA: 1.08 (0.92-1.28)). Other factors associated with higher IRR were sex (being woman), type of biological treatment (TNF inhibitors), concomitant therapy (methotrexate), smoking, comorbidities (Charlson Index) and time of evolution of rheumatic disease. No differences were found between pathologies.TableResults of the Poisson regression model. Factors associated with risk of incidence of a first adverse event since biological therapy initiation.ConclusionA mix of clinical and patient factors seem to explain the appearance of a first AE after biological therapy initiation, with age being one of those explanatory variables.Reference[1] Ishchenko A, Lories RJ. Safetyand Effica...

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Assessing the risk for major injuries in equestrian sports

Cited by 17 publications

References 29 publications

What People Really Think About Safety around Horses: The Relationship between Risk Perception, Values and Safety Behaviours

What People Really Think About Safety around Horses: The Relationship between Risk Perception, Values and Safety Behaviours

Injuries and Overuse Injuries in Show Jumping—A Retrospective Epidemiological Cross-Sectional Study of Show Jumpers in Germany

Sat0168 impact of Age on the Appearance of Adverse Eventsat the Beginning of Biological Treatment: Data From the Biobadaser 3.0 Registry

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