Spinal injuries resulting from horse riding accidents

Silver, Jonathan

doi:10.1038/sj.sc.3101280

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“…Another German study about fatal horse riding accidents showed that next to craniocerebral trauma, thoracolumbar spine fractures were the most commonly encountered injury in all fatalities with an overall incidence of 10% [18]. Several other studies confirmed that 7-10% of all riders requiring hospital admission will have a spinal injury [14,[22][23][24][25].…”

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Spine fractures caused by horse riding

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“…They tend to be associated with inexperience and poor knowledge of the inherent dangers of the sport, inadequate coaching and practice facilities, lack of supervision, protective equipment and strict refereeing [2,22]. Cantu et al [3] reported how teaching the fundamental techniques of the game, equipment standards, and improved medical care both on and off the playing field led to an amazing 270% reduction in permanent spinal cord injury in American football.…”

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Demographics of acute admissions to a National Spinal Injuries Unit

Lenehan¹,

Boran²,

Street³

et al. 2009

Eur Spine J

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Records of all patients admitted to our unit from 1999 to 2003 were compiled from a prospective computerized spinal database. In this 5-year period, 942 patients were acutely hospitalized at the National Spinal Injuries Unit. There were 686 (73%) males and 256 (27%) females, with an average age of 32 years (range 16-84 years). The leading cause of admission with a spinal injury was road traffic accidents (42%), followed by falls (35%), sport (11%), neoplasia (7.5%) and miscellaneous (4.5%). The cervical spine was most commonly affected (51%), followed by lumbar (28%) and thoracic (21%). On admission 38% of patients were ASIA D or worse, of which one-third were AISA A. Understanding of the demographics of spinal column injuries in unique populations can help us to develop preventative and treatment strategies at both national and international levels.

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“…Body areas with the highest number of responses were the ankles (99), knees (108) and hips (49). Body areas with the lowest number of responses were the tibia/fibula (5), forearm (6) and humerus (1). Shoulder/humeral data is presented in Table 1.…”

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“…1,2,3, 4 Silver reported "horse-riders can expect a serious accident once in every 350 hours of participation, which is twenty times more dangerous than motor cycling." 1 The head was the most commonly injured body part amongst riders 19-49, with upper extremity fractures just ahead of concussion (16.6 vs. 15.2%) in riders' age 0-18. 5 High incidences of orthopedic injuries have been reported in several populations of riders less than 25 years of age.…”

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Injury History in the Collegiate Equestrian Athlete: Part II: Head, Upper and Lower Extremities

Pilato¹,

Henry²,

Malavase³

2017

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ATC€, Drussila Malavase Co-Chair ASTM F08.55 Equestrian Safety¥ Monroe Community College ‡, State University New York; Brockport€, Equestrian Safety¥ Purpose: Equestrian sports are known to have a high risk and rate of injury. While there is injury data available on acute injuries in the equestrian population, it is of a general nature. Within that data appears to be a lack of information on the collegiate equestrian athlete. Thus, the purpose of the current study and this analysis is to describe the incidence of upper and lower extremity injuries and head injuries, sans concussion, in intercollegiate equestrian athlete. Method: A survey was developed with input from each author and implemented in Mach forms. It was sent to 43 equestrian coaches in the Eastern United States who passed it on to their athletes. We estimated 753 athletes would have access to the survey and had a total of 73 respondents. Descriptive statistics were calculated for total number of injuries for each injury category. Results: Detailed injury information on the upper and lower extremity and head is found in tables 1-10. The upper and lower extremity and head accounted for 15.97, 60.35 and 4.33 percent respectively of the injuries in this group of athletes. Conclusions and Recommendations: The current study is amongst the first, if not the first, to report specifically on injury patterns and frequency in US collegiate equestrian athletes. The data indicate that there is an extremely high incidence of injury in the collegiate equestrian population. The lower extremity is particularly susceptible to injury in the equestrian athletes. The lack of data available in a sport, which can be classified as collision and has the potential for significant, long-standing disability from an early age due to interaction with the horse, is troubling. Significantly more sport specific research is needed to improve the health and safety of these athletes.

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Spinal injuries resulting from horse riding accidents

Cited by 66 publications

References 13 publications

Spine fractures caused by horse riding

Spine fractures caused by horse riding

Demographics of acute admissions to a National Spinal Injuries Unit

Injury History in the Collegiate Equestrian Athlete: Part II: Head, Upper and Lower Extremities

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