scholarly journals A One-Year Hospital-Based Analysis of Sports Injuries

2007 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 204-214 ◽  
Author(s):  
CT Tsui ◽  
M Leung ◽  
CP Chow ◽  
KH Chan ◽  
ACH Lit
Keyword(s):  
Lower Limb ◽  
Sports Injuries ◽  
Sports Injury ◽  
Injury Surveillance ◽  
Body Region ◽  
Prevention Measures ◽  
Injury Surveillance System ◽  
Lower Limb Injury ◽  
Limb Injury ◽  
Sprain And Strain

Objectives (1) To survey and analyse the pattern of sports injuries; (2) to make implication from the results. Methodology Subjects with sports injuries attending the emergency department of Princess Margaret Hospital in 2006 were retrieved via the Injury Surveillance System. The characteristics of the subjects and their injuries were evaluated. Results In 2006, 709 subjects had sports injuries, from which 83% were male. The median age was 19. Age below 20 accounted for 53% of the attendance. Football (35%), basketball (25%) and cycling (9%) were the three commonest sport-injury activities. All sports injuries had the maximum AIS ≤3 and 83% had MAIS of 1 only. Overall, 39% had contusion and scrape, 36% with sprain and strain, and 18% had fracture. Nearly half (47%) had lower limb injury; 30% and 24% had upper limb injury and head injury respectively. Contusion and scrape of the head, and sprain and strain of the lower limb were the two commonest injuries in football and basketball. In cycling, two-thirds suffered from contusion and scrape of any body region and 57% of those involved the head. Conclusion Sports injury surveillance with characterised patterns of injuries helped to devise prevention measures.

scholarly journals Comparing Two Sports Injury Surveillance Systems: A Novel Systematic Approach

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 135-144
Author(s):  
Mojtaba Ebrahimi Varkiani ◽  
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Mohammad Hossien Alizadeh ◽  
Reza Rajabi ◽  
Hooman Minoonejad ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Incidence Rate ◽  
Surveillance System ◽  
Sports Injuries ◽  
Sports Injury ◽  
Recording System ◽  
Injury Surveillance ◽  
Easy Access ◽  
Surveillance Systems ◽  
Injury Surveillance System ◽  
Significant Difference

Purpose: The present study aimed to compare two sports injury surveillance systems per the sports injury recording system of the sports medicine federation. Methods: A sports injury surveillance system was implemented to collect injury data. Athletic trainers recorded athletes’ sports injuries in soccer, volleyball, handball, taekwondo, and wrestling for 6 months in their user account via a smartphone-based application. The sports recording system routinely collected data alongside the sports injury surveillance system. Finally, the collected results were compared with the federation’s sports injury recording system. Results: Overall, 81 sports injuries were reported to the surveillance system. The incidence rate of 1.39 injuries per 1000 registered athletes was calculated in a sports injury surveillance system. This incidence rate was equal to 0.32 injuries per 1000 athletes registered in the sports injury recording system. Contusion and bruising were the most frequent injuries. However, there was no data on injury type in the sports injury recording system. Fingers and knees were the most commonly reported body parts in the sports injury surveillance system; however, knee and thigh were the most commonly recorded parts in the sports injury recording system. There was also a significant difference between the results of the two systems (P<0.05).  Conclusion: Different implementation and reporting methods as well as having injury definition may affect the results. Employing easy access and user-friendly tools may facilitate injury recording.

Foot core strengthening: relevance in injury prevention and rehabilitation for runners

2016 ◽  
Vol 64 (1) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Injury Prevention ◽  
Lower Limb ◽  
Neuromuscular Electrical Stimulation ◽  
Plantar Fascia ◽  
Core Stability ◽  
Tibialis Posterior ◽  
Lower Limb Injury ◽  
Limb Injury ◽  
Plantar Fasciopathy ◽  
Intrinsic Foot Muscles

The human foot is a flexible structure characterized by a pronounced medial longitudinal arch (MLA) that compresses and recoils during running. That process is actively driven by the intrinsic foot muscles and requires a proper stability of the MLA. This introduces the concept of foot core stability. Because the intrinsic foot muscles are often neglected by clinicians and researchers, the purpose of this article is to provide some guidelines for incorporating foot core training in prevention or rehabilitation programmes for runners. The intrinsic foot muscles play a key role in postural control and maintain balance during single leg stance by controlling the height of the MLA and the foot pronation. During running, these muscles lengthen eccentrically during the absorption phase and subsequently shorten as the arch recoils during the propulsive phase, functioning in parallel to the plantar fascia. As a consequence, the dysfunction or weakness of the MLA active support may lead to injuries (e.g. plantar fasciopathy, Achilles or Tibialis posterior tendinopathy, metatarsalgia or medial tibial stress syndrome), due to numerous biomechanical cascades and mechanisms. In order to counteract or prevent these impairments, there are two ways for enhancing the foot core stability. Firstly in terms of volitional control of the intrinsic foot muscles, the “short foot exercise” must be practiced. Secondly strengthening sessions using neuromuscular electrical stimulation of these muscles seem to be a promising strategy in order to support the MLA and control the pronation during running. Practically, the foot core strengthening protocol may beneficiate not only the runners affected by excessive pronation related injuries but also those who sustained a long term lower limb injury and may be affected by a detraining process. In addition we warmly recommend integrating this protocol in any lower limb injury prevention programme or strength and conditioning plan for runners.

scholarly journals Forensic Engineering Assessment Of Safety For Stand Up Forklifts

2008 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard M. Ziernicki ◽  
Railsback Benjamin T.
Keyword(s):  
Lower Limb ◽  
Safety Engineering ◽  
Engineering Analysis ◽  
Lower Limb Injury ◽  
Jury Verdict ◽  
Limb Injury ◽  
Forensic Engineering

Forklifts Operated From A Stand Up Position Rather Than A Seated Position Offer A Significant Advantage To Increase Warehouse Capacity. Stand Up Lift Trucks Can Be Operated In Warehouse Aisles As Narrow As 8 Feet. In Contrast, Traditional Sit Down Lift Trucks Typically Require Aisles Approximately 11 Feet Wide. This Paper Will Detail The Hazards Of Horizontal Intrusion And Lower Limb Injury For The Operators Of Stand Up Lift Trucks, Review Standards Related To Operator Protection Against Horizontal Intrusion And Lower Limb Injury, Summarize A Safety Engineering Analysis Of The Stand Up Lift Truck Design Including Guarding To Mitigate The Hazards, And Present Three Cases Tried To Jury Verdict Regarding Injury Accidents On Stand Up Lift Trucks.

Posture of rugby league players and its relationship to non-contact lower limb injury: A prospective cohort study

2019 ◽  
Vol 40 ◽  
pp. 27-32
Author(s):  
Edward Langdon ◽  
Suzanne J. Snodgrass ◽  
Jodi L. Young ◽  
Andrew Miller ◽  
Robin Callister
Keyword(s):  
Cohort Study ◽  
Prospective Cohort Study ◽  
Lower Limb ◽  
Prospective Cohort ◽  
Rugby League ◽  
Lower Limb Injury ◽  
Limb Injury

A randomized trial of preexercise stretching for prevention of lower-limb injury

2000 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
pp. 271 ◽  
Author(s):  
RODNEY PETER POPE ◽  
ROBERT DALE HERBERT ◽  
JOHN DENNIS KIRWAN ◽  
BRUCE JAMES GRAHAM
Keyword(s):  
Randomized Trial ◽  
Lower Limb ◽  
Lower Limb Injury ◽  
Limb Injury
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