Injury characteristics in male youth athletics: a five-season prospective study in a full-time sports academy
Autor: | Juan-Manuel Alonso, Evan Jeanguyot, Benjamin Salcinovic, Daniel Martínez-Silván, Amanda Johnson, Eirik Halvorsen Wik, Marco Cardinale |
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Rok vydání: | 2020 |
Předmět: |
Male
medicine.medical_specialty Adolescent Poison control Physical Therapy Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Injury prevention medicine Humans Orthopedics and Sports Medicine Prospective Studies Prospective cohort study 030222 orthopedics Stress fractures biology Athletes business.industry Incidence Incidence (epidemiology) Youth Sports 030229 sport sciences General Medicine medicine.disease biology.organism_classification Athletic Injuries Cohort Physical therapy Seasons business Hamstring |
Zdroj: | British Journal of Sports Medicine. 55:954-960 |
ISSN: | 1473-0480 0306-3674 |
Popis: | ObjectivesTo describe the injury characteristics of male youth athletes exposed to year-round athletics programmes.MethodsInjury surveillance data were prospectively collected by medical staff in a cohort of youth athletics athletes participating in a full-time sports academy from 2014–2015 to 2018–2019. Time-loss injuries (>1 day) were recorded following consensus procedures for athletics. Athletes were clustered into five event groups (sprints, jumps, endurance, throws and non-specialised) and the number of completed training and competition sessions (athletics exposures (AE)) were calculated for each athlete per completed season (one athlete season). Injury characteristics were reported overall and by event groups as injury incidence (injuries per 1000 AE) and injury burden (days lost per 1000 AE).ResultsOne-hundred and seventy-eight boys (14.9±1.8 years old) completed 391 athlete seasons, sustaining 290 injuries. The overall incidence was 4.0 injuries per 1000 AE and the overall burden was 79.1 days lost per 1000 AE. The thigh was the most common injury location (19%). Muscle strains (0.7 injuries per 1000 AE) and bone stress injuries (0.5 injuries per 1000 AE) presented the highest incidence and stress fractures the highest burden (17.6 days lost per 1000 AE). The most burdensome injury types by event group were: bone stress injuries for endurance, hamstring strains for sprints, stress fractures for jumps, lesion of meniscus/cartilage for throws and growth plate injuries for non-specialised athletes.ConclusionAcute muscle strains, stress fractures and bone stress injuries were identified as the main injury concerns in this cohort of young male athletics athletes. The injury characteristics differed between event groups. |
Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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