Injuries in adolescent and preadolescent boys at two large wrestling tournaments

Abstract

We evaluated injury patterns at two wrestling tournaments involving 1742 participants, aged 6 to 16 years. The overall injury rate was 12.7%. Injuries requiring withdrawal from the tournament occurred in 4.6% of the participants. Of all participants, 3% sustained an injury in their first match, and 1.1% sustained an injury during their first match that required withdrawal from the tournament. Primary areas of injury were the upper extremity (33%) and the neck and back (24%). Wilcoxon rank-sum tests revealed that increasing age and increasing weight were correlated with injury, whereas multiple logistic regression analysis revealed that only increasing age was correlated with injury. These findings suggest the need for medical supervision at large wrestling tournaments, where it is likely that severe injuries will occur. In addition, older wrestlers and perhaps heavier wrestlers are at an increased risk for injury.

A Prospective Study of High School Wrestling Injuries

“…Most studies have found no statistically significant relationship between injury and weight class. 8, 13-15, 29, 31 Lorish et al 18 found a trend toward increased injury with increasing weight, but this proved to be not statistically significant with multiple regression analysis. The present study showed a trend toward more injuries in the middle weights (54%), but this was not statistically significant.…”

“…28, No. 4, 2000 High School Wrestling Injuries 513 significant relationship to injury include period of the match, 31 score of the match, 15 successive tournament matches, 8,18,29 and years of experience. 31 We did find an increased risk of injury in wrestlers with 3 or more years of experience, but we did not study match scores or tournament-related variables.…”

“…Requa and Garrick 25 studied four high schools during a 2-year period and found the most commonly injured area to be the spine and trunk (34%, 60 of 176), followed by the lower extremities (33%, 58 of 176) and the upper extremities (29%, 51 of 176). Lorish et al 18 documented the types of injuries in adolescent and preadolescent boys at two large wrestling tournaments. The primary areas injured were the upper extremity (33%, or 73 of 221 injuries) and neck and back (24%, or 53 of 221 injuries).…”

Middle School Injuries: A 20-Year (1988–2008) Multisport Evaluation

“…Contemporary published data on middle school-aged boy wrestlers are limited to tournament competition data, 46 with no practice injury data available. To our knowledge, injury data for female wrestlers at any level have not been reported.…”

Knee Injuries in Wrestlers: A Prospective Study from the Indian Subcontinent

“…In the only study with the percentage of knee injuries below 10%, Lorish et al described injuries in tournaments to wrestlers aged 6 - 16 years (12). The knee injuries, in our study also were quite high comprising 37.7% of all of all injuries reported.…”