Epidemiology of Sports Injuries in the Swiss Organization "Youth and Sports" 1987-1989 - Injuries, Exposure and Risks of Main Diagnoses

Loës, M. de

doi:10.1055/s-2007-972980

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“…Although the number of cases alone can be informative [13], incidence is considered the gold standard of the measure of risk. A comparison of injury rates from prospective and retrospective research is shown in table 1 and covers high school [14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21], physical education class [22], clubs/sports organizations [23][24][25][26][27], and hospital emergency departments [28,29]. In addition, studies reporting incidence data specifically for knee [18,19,30], ankle [31,32], head [33], and orofacial [34][35][36] injuries are listed.…”

Section: Incidence Of Injurymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Injury Type A percent comparison of injury types across high schools [17][18][19]41], clubs/sporting organizations [23,[25][26][27], and hospital emergency departments [12,29,42,43] is shown in table 3. Sprains [18,19,26,27,29,41,42] or sprains/strains [12,17,23,28,43] are the most common type of injury suffered by young basketball players, representing between 22-65.5% of all injuries.…”

Section: Injury Severitymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Sprains [18,19,26,27,29,41,42] or sprains/strains [12,17,23,28,43] are the most common type of injury suffered by young basketball players, representing between 22-65.5% of all injuries. Strains account for approximately 16% of all reported injuries (range 13.3-17.7%) [19,41].…”

Section: Injury Severitymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Overall, soft tissue injuries (contusions and abrasions) were the next most common type(s) of injuries reported, accounting for 15-36% of cases [17,18,23,26,29,41,43], although Belechri et al [42] reported a range of 17.4-55% in five European countries. This group also reported the greatest percentage of fractures (17-36%), possibly due to the high number of hand/finger injuries reported.…”

Section: Injury Severitymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Gender Despite the widely varying quality of the literature dealing with injuries in youth basketball, girls are more at risk than boys, particularly for knee and ankle injuries, and these injuries tend to be serious [14,16,18,19,23,26,30,32,41,49,68]. This relationship has been noted in club [23,26,30] and scholastic studies [14,16,32,41,49,68], in the USA [14,16,18,32,41,49,68] and abroad [26,30].…”

Section: Intrinsic Factorsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Basketball Injuries

Harmer¹

2005

Medicine and Sport Science

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Objective:To identify and quantify, to the best extent possible from the existing literature, injury characteristics and factors (risk; protective) associated with injury in young basketball players. Data Sources: Database searches principally involving Medline and SportDiscus. In addition, web-based searching and filtering of the reference lists of papers found in the preliminary searches were utilized. Main Results: Few well-controlled studies of this population have been conducted. However, from the information available: basketball is the most frequent cause of sports-related emergency department visits for youth and adolescents; the risk of being injured in a game is greater than for practice; girls are more likely to be injured than boys, especially with knee and ankle injuries and the knee injuries are more likely to be severe; acute injuries are more common than chronic; strains/sprains are the most common types of injuries but overall time loss is minimal, indicating that the majority of pediatric basketball injuries are minor (less than 7 days away from activity). Intervention studies show that: mouthguards reduce orofacial/dental injuries; mouthguard use can be increased in young players; neuromuscular training can reduce the incidence of knee injuries in female participants; postural sway is related to risk of ankle injury. Conclusions: The current state of epidemiological research involving youth and adolescent basketball injuries is poor. With an increasing number of young participants, in situations ranging from informal play and physical education classes to organized community and school teams, the need for comprehensive and authoritative information on risk and protective factors is significant.

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