Sport And Recreation Related Injury Episodes In The U.S. Population

Effectiveness of multicomponent lower extremity injury prevention programmes in team-sport athletes: an umbrella review

“…The majority of these injuries were lower extremity strains and sprains sustained during basketball, American football and soccer (42%) 1. A similar rate of 26 injuries per 1000 persons was calculated for the European Union, with a peak occurring in the 15–19 years age group 2.…”

“…An average of 8.6 million sports-related injuries were documented per year between 2011 and 2014 in the USA, which equates to an incidence rate of 34 injuries per 1000 persons 1. The majority of these injuries were lower extremity strains and sprains sustained during basketball, American football and soccer (42%) 1.…”

Epidemiology of sports-related musculoskeletal injuries in young athletes in United States

“…The vast majority of injuries seen in clinical practice are overuse injuries ( Table 2) (2,(7)(8)(9)(10)(11)(12)). An overuse injury is a result of repetitive and excessive stress from physical activity applied to normal musculoskeletal tissues and failure of normal adaptation of the tissue.…”

“…No deaths were reported in the study. Sheu et al (2016) reported on sports and recreation related injury episodes in the United States for the period of time between 2011 and 2014 (9). Their analysis showed an average annual estimate of 8.6 million sports and recreational related injury episodes with an age-adjusted rate of 34.1 per 1,000 population.…”

Análisis de la relación entre apoyo social y lesiones en futbolistas federados

“…La lesión es un hecho inherente a la práctica deportiva, y como tal existen numerosos estudios epidemiológicos que muestran la gran prevalencia de lesiones en el deporte (Azuara, Flores y Alcolea, 2014;Hurtubise, Beech y Macpherson, 2015;Padegimas, Stepan, Stoker, Polites y Brophy, 2016;Pujals, Rubio, Márquez, Sán-chez-Iglesias y Ruiz, 2016;Sheu, Chen y Hedegaard, 2016). Por otro lado, la mayoría de deportistas han sufrido alguna lesión durante su carrera deportiva suponiendo, a veces, lesiones graves que ocasionan un gran impacto en su salud y bienestar y en su desarrollo deportivo, además del elevado coste económico que estas suponen (Almeida, Olmedilla, Rubio y Palou, 2014;Udry y Andersen, 2008).…”