Wrestling Injuries

Hewett, Timothy E.; Pasque, Charles B.; Heyl, Rachel; Wroble, Randy

doi:10.1159/000084288

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“…Targeting football-and wrestling-specific interventions to limit shoulder injuries with a focus on appropriate protective equipment, an emphasis on proper tackling and wrestling technique, and stricter enforcement of rules by referees may result in significantly lower numbers of shoulder injuries in this population. 38,39 More than 3 times as many shoulder injuries in our study were sustained during competition as compared with a Groups without asterisks were used as referent (ie, for strain/sprain, boys were used as the referent group). b Statistically significant (95% CI excludes 1.00).…”

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confidence: 99%

Shoulder Injuries Among US High School Athletes, 2005/2006–2011/2012

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WHAT'S KNOWN ON THIS SUBJECT: Shoulder injuries are common among high school athletes. These injuries, both traumatic and overuse, contribute to significant time loss from athletic activity. Understanding sport-specific injury patterns is critical for development of targeted injury prevention programs. WHAT THIS STUDY ADDS:This study is the most comprehensive analysis of high school shoulder injuries to date, providing national injury estimates while examining injury rates, diagnoses, severity, and mechanisms of injury in 9 interscholastic sports. abstract OBJECTIVES: The objective of this study was to describe shoulder injuries in a nationally representative sample of high school athletes playing 9 sports. A national estimate of shoulder injuries among high school athletes was subsequently calculated.METHODS: Injury data were collected in 9 sports (boys' football, soccer, basketball, wrestling, and baseball; girls ' soccer, volleyball, basketball, and softball) high school athletes in this study sustained 2798 shoulder injuries during 13 002 321 athlete exposures, for an injury rate of 2.15 per 10 000 athlete exposures. This corresponds to a nationally estimated 820 691 injuries during this time period. Rates of injury were higher in competition as compared with practice (rate ratio = 3.17 [95% confidence interval: 2.94-3.41]). The highest rate of injury was in football (4.86) and the lowest in girls' soccer (0.42). The most common types of injury were strain/sprain (37.9%) and dislocation/separation (29.2%). Boys were more likely than girls to sustain their injuries after contact with another person or with the playing surface. Surgical repair was required for 7.9% of the injuries. Time loss from athletic participation varied among sports, with 40.7% of athletes returning within 1 week, whereas 8.2% were medically disqualified for their season/career. CONCLUSIONS:High school shoulder injury rates and patterns varied by sport and gender. Prospective epidemiologic surveillance is warranted to discern trends and patterns to develop evidence-based interventions to prevent shoulder injuries. Pediatrics 2014;133:272-279

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confidence: 99%

Shoulder Injuries Among US High School Athletes, 2005/2006–2011/2012

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“…Investigators have indicated the incidence of upper extremity injuries in high school wrestlers was higher 1,9,15 than the incidence of lower extremity injuries in collegiate wrestlers. 1 These contrasting data are similar to those for the BJJ fighters in our report.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…[16][17][18]20,21 Concurrently, researchers 1,15,22,23 have reported that collegiate athletes in wrestling competitions and practice sessions experienced fewer cervical injuries than overall extremity injuries. Whereas wrestling-style arts and judo share features with MMA, the former do not include deliberate striking during practice and competitions, as MMA-style competition does.…”

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confidence: 99%

Incidence of Injury Among Male Brazilian Jiujitsu Fighters at the World Jiu-Jitsu No-Gi Championship 2009

Kreiswirth

Myer

Rauh

2014

Journal of Athletic Training

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Context: Brazilian jiujitsu is a modern combat martial art that uses joint locks to submit an opponent and achieve victory. This form of martial art is a relatively young but rapidly growing combat sport worldwide. Objective: To determine the cumulative injury incidence and risk of injury by belt rank and body region at an international-level Brazilian jiujitsu tournament. Design: Descriptive epidemiology study. Setting: World Jiu-Jitsu No-Gi Championship 2009 in Long Beach, California. Patients or Other Participants: We monitored 951 athletes (age range, 18–50 years) enrolled to compete in the World Jiu-Jitsu No-Gi Championship 2009. Intervention(s): Fighters were categorized by belt level for group comparisons (belt experience). Incidence rates per 1000 athlete-exposures (AEs) and incidence rate ratios were compared by belt rank. Main Outcome Measure(s): Incidence rates and incidence rate ratios. Results: During the tournament, 1606 AEs and 62 total injuries were reported. Of these injuries, 40 affected the joints, for an overall incidence rate of 24.9 per 1000 AEs. The joint incidence rate by belt rank was 21.5 per 1000 AEs for blue, 21.3 per 1000 AEs for purple, 25.2 per 1000 AEs for brown, and 35.1 per 1000 AEs for black. We found no differences for incidence rate ratios of joint injury among individual belt groups (P > .05). More experienced (brown belt and black belt) competitors had a higher injury risk than the less experienced (blue belt and purple belt) competitors; however, the difference was not significant (incidence rate ratio = 1.65, 95% confidence interval = 0.9, 2.9; P = .06). The incidence of joint injury was highest at the knee (7.5 per 1000 AEs) and elbow (7.5 per 1000 AEs). Conclusions: The data from this international Brazilian jiujitsu tournament indicated that the risk of joint injury was similar among belt ranks or experience during this Brazilian jiujitsu competition. The knee and elbow were the joints most susceptible to injury. Future investigation of injury mechanism is warranted to develop strategies to reduce potential risk factors attributed to injury.

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“…49 For brevity, Table 3 shows percent range values for the most common injury locations as reported in recent sportspecific reviews on the epidemiology of pediatric sport-related injuries. [44][45][46][49][50][51][52][53][54][55][56] Most injuries are to the lower extremity. With few exceptions, the ankle and knee are the most common injury sites to the lower extremity, except for taekwondo in which injuries occur primarily to the foot and toes.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The more common types of injuries reported across sports are sprains and/or strains and contusions followed in different rank order -depending on sport, participation level, and gender -by lacerations, fractures, and inflammation. [44][45][46][49][50][51][52][53][54][55][56] Most studies report these injury types as a percentage of all injuries sustained, although several recent studies 26,32,37 report incidence rates for injury types, thus permitting comparison of rates across descriptive components. For example, football had the highest overall and game incidence rate for concussion in a recent study of high school athletes.…”

Section: Injury Typementioning

confidence: 99%