Injuries Sustained During Modern Army Combatives Tournaments

Abstract

MAC tournaments result in injury rates comparable with other combative sports and military training courses.

Assessment of Blood Biomarker Profile After Acute Concussion During Combative Training Among US Military Cadets

“…Symptom burdens associated with the stress of combative training may overlap with those of concussion, and the potential for incurring subconcussive impacts as part of combative training needs to also be considered. 3 Data also indicate that aerobic activity in the absence of head injuries has implications for blood biomarkers of concussion. 4,5 Blood biomarkers have been increasingly studied in military settings because acute clinical assessment of concussion may be challenging under the conditions of both military training and combat deployment.…”

“…It is essential that studies of combative training–associated concussions have an active control group of cadets who are undergoing the same combative training exercises but have not incurred concussions (defined as a contact-control group). Symptom burdens associated with the stress of combative training may overlap with those of concussion, and the potential for incurring subconcussive impacts as part of combative training needs to also be considered . Data also indicate that aerobic activity in the absence of head injuries has implications for blood biomarkers of concussion …”

Exploratory Systematic Review of Mixed Martial Arts: An Overview of Performance of Importance Factors with over 20,000 Athletes

“…In this present study, investigations of injury comprise 25% of all manuscripts. Injuries were reported with different methodologies, such as athlete exposure (AE) [13,29,30], time exposure [29], combat time exposure [30], fight participation [30][31][32][33], and competitor rounds [31,33]. The overall injury prevalence in MMA fighters was 8.5% of fight participations or 5.6% per rounds fought [33], values that are lower than those reported in Olympic combat sports during training (58%) compared to with the competition (42%) [34], still on MMA, 4.1 injuries (95% CI = 3.48 to 4.70) per 100 min of exposure [29], 64.9 injuries per 1000 combat minutes [30], 23.6 to 28.6 injures per fight participations [30,31], 12.5 injuries per 100 competitor rounds [31], and 23.6 (95% CI 20.5 to 27.0) [29] to 51 injuries per 100 AE [13].…”