TY - JOUR
T1 - Injuries in youth sports
T2 - Epidemiology, Risk factors and prevention
AU - Theisen, D.
AU - Malisoux, L.
AU - Seil, R.
AU - Urhausen, A.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2014
Y1 - 2014
N2 - Organised youth sport has become increasingly professionalised, and the associated sports injury problem has received much attention lately. Sports injury prevention should rely on permanent surveillance and encompass the collection of epidemiological data, the establishment of risk factors, the implementation of prevention initiatives and the analysis of their effectiveness. Overall, injury incidence in youth sport is usually within a range of 1-10 injuries/1000 hours. About one fifth of all injuries are severe, implying a withdrawal from normal sport activity for at least 4 weeks, while up to 20% of all injuries are recurrences. Chronic overuse injuries amount to up to 40%, many of which concern episodes of traction apophysites, typical in youth sports. Risk factors can be extrinsic (e.g. sport context) or intrinsic (e.g. gender), modifiable (e.g. neuro-muscular control) or non-modifiable (e.g. previous injury). Injury risk is higher in team compared to individual sports and in competition compared to training. Active sports injury prevention initiatives have been introduced and tested in a number of controlled studies. Putting aside a possible publication bias, most results are encouraging, showing a possible reduction of injuries by 50% on average. Modern information technology can provide excellent solutions to assist in sports injury surveillance and prevention. One example of such an infrastructure is the Training and Injury Prevention Platform for Sports (www.tipps.lu) developed by the Sports Medicine Research Laboratory (CRP-Santé, Luxembourg).
AB - Organised youth sport has become increasingly professionalised, and the associated sports injury problem has received much attention lately. Sports injury prevention should rely on permanent surveillance and encompass the collection of epidemiological data, the establishment of risk factors, the implementation of prevention initiatives and the analysis of their effectiveness. Overall, injury incidence in youth sport is usually within a range of 1-10 injuries/1000 hours. About one fifth of all injuries are severe, implying a withdrawal from normal sport activity for at least 4 weeks, while up to 20% of all injuries are recurrences. Chronic overuse injuries amount to up to 40%, many of which concern episodes of traction apophysites, typical in youth sports. Risk factors can be extrinsic (e.g. sport context) or intrinsic (e.g. gender), modifiable (e.g. neuro-muscular control) or non-modifiable (e.g. previous injury). Injury risk is higher in team compared to individual sports and in competition compared to training. Active sports injury prevention initiatives have been introduced and tested in a number of controlled studies. Putting aside a possible publication bias, most results are encouraging, showing a possible reduction of injuries by 50% on average. Modern information technology can provide excellent solutions to assist in sports injury surveillance and prevention. One example of such an infrastructure is the Training and Injury Prevention Platform for Sports (www.tipps.lu) developed by the Sports Medicine Research Laboratory (CRP-Santé, Luxembourg).
KW - Injury incidence
KW - Injury mechanism
KW - Injury surveillance
KW - Sports injuries
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84907532033&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.5960/dzsm.2014.137
DO - 10.5960/dzsm.2014.137
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:84907532033
SN - 0344-5925
VL - 65
SP - 248
EP - 252
JO - Deutsche Zeitschrift fur Sportmedizin
JF - Deutsche Zeitschrift fur Sportmedizin
IS - 9
ER -