Sports injuries and illnesses during the London Summer Olympic Games 2012

Combat Sports Injuries in Well-Trained Athletes during African Games 2015 in Brazzaville, Congo

“…The present study was initiated to identify the secondary traumatisms with the In comparison, taekwondo had the highest injury frequency with 39.1% during the London Games while in archery, canoe slalom and sprint, track cycling, rowing, shooting and equestrian sport less than 5% of athletes were injured (Engebresten, Soligard, Steffen et al, 2013). Our frequency of injuries in taekwondo, equal to 17.2%, is significantly higher (p = 0.032).…”

“…Our frequency of injuries in taekwondo, equal to 17.2%, is significantly higher (p = 0.032). Compared with other Olympic combat sports, judo time loss injury frequency of 6% -9% during the last two SOGs was clearly lower than in taekwondo (16% -18%) but slightly higher than in boxing (4% -8%) and wrestling (5% -6%), respectively (Junge, Engebretsen, Mountjoy et al, 2009;Engebresten, Soligard, Steffen et al, 2013).…”

“…Despite those differences, studies have shown that most combat sports can be characterized as high-intensity, intermittent sports (Campos, Bertuzzi, Dourado, et al, 2012;Artioli, Gualano, Franchini et al, 2009;Franchini, Del Vecchio, Matsushigue et al, 2011;Terbizan & Selievold, 1996;Del Vecchio, Hirata, & Franchini, 2011). Consequently, injury risk had been consistently high in these athletes (Kobayashi, Kanamura, Koshida et al, 2010), even if the International Olympic Committee initiated and developed the injury and illness surveillance system during the 2008 Beijing and 2012 London Olympics (Junge, Engebretsen, Mountjoy et al, 2009;Engebresten, Soligard, Steffen et al, 2013). In the literature, a few prospective and retrospective studies as well as case reports dealing with combat injuries are available (Souza, Monteiro, Del Vecchio et al, 2006;Green, Petrou, Fogarty-Hover et al, 2007;Pierantozzi & Muroni, 2009) …”

Is elite sport a driver for medical advance?

“…London 2012 Olympics is an excellent indicator of injury prevalence in contemporary elite sport. In a study of 2012 Olympic games, 10,568 athletes were monitored over the 17 day period and it was found that there where 1361 injuries (11% of athletes had at least one injury) (Engebretsen et al, 2013). In the same study, there were 24 fractures and some 35% of injuries resulted in prevention of competition or training.…”

Handball Sports Medicine

“…This popularity also enjoys an equal distribution between the men's and women's game, which unfortunately is still rarely seen in other sports. These changes have also influenced the physiologic aspects of the game as well as the injury profile in the sport, which emerged as one of the most injury-prone ball sports [4,5]. The growing need for an appropriate scientific and medical envelope to support the game became evident; however, these aspects lagged behind those provided for other popular ball sports such as football, basketball, and rugby, a fact portrayed quite distinctively in the much lower number of scientific studies and English-language scientific publications in handball compared to these other sports.…”