Skate blade neck lacerations: a survey and case follow-up.
| Autor: | Stuart MJ; Department of Orthopedics, Sport Medicine Center, and Division of Biomedical Statistics and Informatics, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota 55905, USA. stuart.michael@mayo.edu, Link AA, Smith AM, Krause DA, Sorenson MC, Larson DR |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Zdroj: | Clinical journal of sport medicine : official journal of the Canadian Academy of Sport Medicine [Clin J Sport Med] 2009 Nov; Vol. 19 (6), pp. 494-7. |
| DOI: | 10.1097/JSM.0b013e3181c0aaa4 |
| Abstrakt: | Objective: To learn about neck lacerations caused by skate blades in hockey. Design: A retrospective Web-based survey and follow-up of registered USA Hockey players. Setting: Three hundred twenty-eight thousand eight hundred twenty-one of 457 038 registered USA Hockey players with a current e-mail address were contacted and invited to participate in the survey. Participants: Of 26 589 players (5.8% of all USA registered players) who responded to the survey, 247 were excluded due to incomplete data. Of 26 342 surveys analyzed, 23 199 respondents were men (88%), 3015 women (11.4%), and 128 (0.5%) did not designate gender. Intervention: An original survey instrument was developed, formatted, and linked to a Mayo Clinic Web site. Main Outcome Measures: Neck lacerations from a skate blade, including mechanism, severity, treatment required, and the type of neck protector worn. Results: Of the 26 342 respondents, 11 935 (45.4%) currently wear neck protection and 485 (1.8%) have sustained a neck laceration. When the laceration occurred, 132 of the players (27%) were wearing neck protection. Interviews with 33 injured players established that lacerations were superficial: 20 (61%) required bandaging only, 11 were sutured, and 2 were glued. Conclusion: Based on this survey, the currently available neck laceration protectors do not eliminate the risk of a neck laceration from a skate blade. |
| Databáze: | MEDLINE |
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