Compelling overuse injury incidence in youth multisport athletes

Rejeb, Abdallah, Johnson, Amanda ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1648-6506, Vaeyens, Roel, Horobeanu, Cosmin, Farooq, Abdulaziz and Witvrouw, Erik (2017) Compelling overuse injury incidence in youth multisport athletes. European Journal of Sport Science, 17 (4). pp. 495-502. ISSN 1746-1391

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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/17461391.2016.1275820

Abstract

The present investigation was carried out to examine the incidence and pattern of injuries in adolescent multisport athletes from youth sports academy. Injury data were prospectively collected from 166 athletes during the seasons from 2009 to 2014. A total of 643 injuries were identified, 559 (87.0%) were time-loss injuries. The overall injury incidence was 5.5 (95% confidence interval CI: 5.1–6.0), the incidence of time-loss injuries was 4.8 (95% CI: 4.4–5.2), the incidence of growth conditions was 1.2 (95% CI: 1.0–1.4) and incidence of serious injuries was 0.6 (95% CI: 0.5–0.8) per 1000 h of exposure. The prevalence of overuse injuries was 50.3%. Growth conditions represented 20.0%. Most of the injuries (67.0%) involved the lower extremities, and both foot and ankle were the most predominant injured body parts (22.0%). Knee injuries were mostly from overuse (50 vs. 23, p =.02), whereas foot and ankle injuries resulted from an acute mechanism (94 vs. 31, p <.0001). Minor and moderate injuries accounted for 87.0%. Muscle, tendon and osteochondrosis injuries accounted for 52.0% of all injuries. Comparing groups, squash sport was having the highest injury incidence (8.5 injuries per athlete). Higher exposure was associated with greater overuse relative risk (RR = 1.03, 95% CI: 1.01–1.014, p <.001). In conclusion, the results of this study identified a high incidence of injuries in this youth sports population. Striking was the prevalence of overuse injuries of 50%, which suggests the need for injury prevention protocols for adolescent highly trained athletes.

Item Type:	Article
Peer-reviewed:	Yes
Date Deposited:	05 May 2023 15:42
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Additional Information:	This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in European Journal of Sport Science on 18th January 2017, available at: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/17461391.2016.1275820. It is deposited under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Divisions:	Faculties > Health and Education Research Centres > Health, Psychology and Communities
Subject terms:	Science & Technology, Life Sciences & Biomedicine, Sport Sciences, Youth, training, injury and prevention, DATA-COLLECTION PROCEDURES, CONSENSUS STATEMENT, SPORTS INJURIES, RISK-FACTORS, SURVEILLANCE, ILLNESS, EPIDEMIOLOGY, DEFINITIONS, SPRINT, TEAM, Humans, Athletic Injuries, Knee Injuries, Cumulative Trauma Disorders, Incidence, Prospective Studies, Sports, Adolescent, Child, Male, Youth, injury and prevention, training, Adolescent, Athletic Injuries, Child, Cumulative Trauma Disorders, Humans, Incidence, Knee Injuries, Male, Prospective Studies, Sports, 0913 Mechanical Engineering, 1106 Human Movement and Sports Sciences, Sport Sciences
URI:	https://e-space.mmu.ac.uk/id/eprint/631655
DOI:	https://doi.org/10.1080/17461391.2016.1275820
ISSN	1746-1391
e-ISSN	1536-7290

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