High School Football Injuries in Birmingham, Alabama

Culpepper, M. I.

doi:10.1097/01241398-198311000-00032

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“…In contrast to the enormous bulk of whiplash literature, as far as we know, only a few studies have focused on neck sprain. Going back to 1970, we retrieved 19 studies from Medline [21] about neck sprain, of which 9 were about neck sprain due to car accidents [3,7,11,13,14,32,38,40,42] and 3 were about neck sprain due to sports injuries [5,18,35]. The remaining seven studies, in which the aetiology is unclear, describe treatment and research methods [4,12,15,20,23,37,39].…”

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Neck sprain not arising from car accidents: a retrospective study covering 25 years

Versteegen

Kingma²,

Meijler

et al. 1998

E Spine J

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IntroductionNeck sprain has usually been associated with car accidents. Widespread attention has been paid to neck sprain because of the enormous increase in the whiplash-associated disorders (WAD) due to car accidents, especially over the last decades [1,6,9,19,34,41]. However, neck sprain is not only caused by car accidents.The diagnostic rubric "sprains and strains of the neck" from the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-9 CM) from the World Health Organization is used by the majority of hospital-based trauma registries. Whiplash is a component of this diagnostic rubric and, according to Penning [26], the primary mechanism of whiplash trauma is a hypertranslation of the head. In contrast to the enormous bulk of whiplash literature, as far as we know, only a few studies have focused on neck sprain. Going back to 1970, we retrieved 19 studies from Medline [21] about neck sprain, of which 9 were about neck sprain due to car accidents [3,7,11,13,14,32,38,40,42] and 3 were about neck sprain due to sports injuries [5,18,35]. The remaining seven studies, in which the aetiology is unclear, describe treatment and research methods [4,12,15,20,23,37,39]. Research results from 1970 were based on data from hospital registries in which no distinction was made between inpatients and outpatients. As far as we know there are no studies analysing trends in neck sprain Abstract During the 25-year period 1970-1994, 680 patients were diagnosed with neck sprain due to causes other than car accidents at the Emergency Room of the University Hospital Groningen. The purpose of the present study was to analyse the prevalence, groups at risk and trends in patients with neck sprain. We defined the population as patients diagnosed with neck sprain that was not due to a car accident (NCA). The binominal test was used to obtain measures of statistical significance, ∆ x was used to obtain both the total increase in the number of neck sprain victims over the whole period and the relative contribution of successive 5-year periods. Over the 25-year period a steady increase in the number of patients was observed from 55 in 1970-1974 to 241 in 1990-1994. The highest

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Neck sprain not arising from car accidents: a retrospective study covering 25 years

Versteegen

Kingma²,

Meijler

et al. 1998

E Spine J

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“…Rotational traction has long been thought of as much more dangerous in terms of shoe-surface related injuries (Lambson et al 1996), and as the season progressed, rotational traction was affected to a greater extent than translational traction. This vast reduction in rotational traction as the season progressed may partly explain the early season injury bias (Orchard 2002), in which football injury studies have reported a greater incidence of injury at the start of the season than at the end of the season when the season is played during the fall months (when the present study was conducted) (Bramwell et al 1972;Culpepper & Niemann, 1983;Hoffman & Lyman, 1988;Andresen et al 1989). This reduction in rotational traction on grass may have a protective effect for athletes lowering the loading on the joints and leading to a reduction in injury.…”

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“…At the current time it is not known whether this early season bias is caused by de-conditioning of the athlete, a change in the ground hardness causing a change in footwear traction or some other aspect (Culpepper & Niemann 1983).…”

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Footwear traction and lower extremity non-contact injury

2011

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For the past forty years footwear traction has been thought to be one of the causes of noncontact lower extremity injury in sport. Previous studies have shown that rotational traction was associated with ACL injury, however, no studies have determined the relationship between footwear traction, both translational and rotational, and all lower extremity non-contact injuries. Therefore, the purposes of this thesis were to 1) determine if a relationship exists between an athlete's specific footwear traction (both translational and rotational) and lower extremity non-contact injury and 2) determine how independently altering translational and rotational traction affects ankle and knee joint loading.Over the course of three years, 555 athletes had their footwear traction tested on the actual playing surface; either an artificial or natural grass field. The athletes were followed over each season and any injury that they sustained during a game was recorded by certified athletic therapists on site at the field.No differences in injury rate were seen between the artificial and natural grass surfaces.A relationship was found between rotational traction and lower extremity non-contact injury, with increases in rotational traction leading to an increase in injury rate. A relationship was also seen between translational traction and injury with the mid-range of translational traction leading to a higher injury rate. PrefaceThe following three chapters are based on scientific manuscripts:

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“…The literature suggests that 3-9 % of all athletic injuries involve the hand and wrist (Bergfeld et al 1982;Culpepper and Niemann 1983;DeHaven and Lintner 1986;Krahl et al 1994;Rettig 1998;Rettig 2003;Mall et al 2008), and when specifically looking at contact sports, these numbers may be even higher (Bergfeld et al 1982;Culpepper and Niemann 1983;DeHaven and Lintner 1986;Royle 1990;Krahl et al 1994;Rettig 1998Rettig , 2003Mall et al 2008;Geissler 2009). …”

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