Sports-related injuries in New Zealand: National Insurance (Accident Compensation Corporation) claims for five sporting codes from 2012 to 2016

Abstract

Rugby union and rugby league have the highest total number and costs associated with injury. Accurate sport exposure data are needed to enable injury risk calculations.

Medical-attention injuries in community cricket: a systematic review

“…In the same NZ hospital study, almost 1% of all cases were related to cricket injury 19. An NZ study looking at insurance claims over the 2012 to 2016 period reported 0.4% of the total claims (of the five sports investigated) were due to cricket-related injury 17. A study looking at ED presentations across Australia from 1989 to 1993 reported 3.7% of children under 15 years of age and 7.3% of all adults (defined as 15 years or older) presenting with sports injuries were cricket related 20.…”

“…Three studies were specific to cricket and two studies included cricket among other sports or injury reporting. Three of the studies were based in New Zealand (NZ)17–19 and two in Australia 20 21. Three studies used ED presentation data only,18 20 21 one used hospital admission data only,19 one used both ED presentation and admission data22 and one used insurance claims data 17.…”

“…Three of the studies were based in New Zealand (NZ)17–19 and two in Australia 20 21. Three studies used ED presentation data only,18 20 21 one used hospital admission data only,19 one used both ED presentation and admission data22 and one used insurance claims data 17. One study was specific to indoor cricket,21 while the remainder of the studies did not specify so outdoor and indoor are assumed combined.…”

“…(table 1)summarises the critical appraisal of the studies: two recorded a low likelihood of bias,19 20 two were unclear17 18 and one recorded a high likelihood of bias 21. The overall percentage of items addressed adequately (ie, recorded yes responses) for all studies was 65%.…”

Hand injuries in sports – a retrospective analysis of 364 cases

“…Rule changes made by the Amateur International Boxing Association (AIBA) in 2013 for example, resulted in a substantial decrease of boxing-related upper extremity injuries between 2012 -2016, shown most impressively in a decline of hand injuries by 33% [7,10]. Nevertheless, sports injuries still occur with high incidences, showing varying risk pro les within the different types of sport [11,12]. Injuries of the hand account for approximately 25% of all sports-related injuries [13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22].…”