- Title
- Subsequent injuries are more common than injury recurrences : An analysis of 1 season of prospectively collected injuries in professional Australian football
- Creator
- Finch, Caroline; Cook, Jill; Kunstler, Breanne; Akram, Muhammad; Orchard, John
- Date
- 2017
- Type
- Text; Journal article
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/157794
- Identifier
- vital:11687
- Identifier
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https://doi.org/10.1177/0363546517691943
- Identifier
- ISSN:0363-5465
- Abstract
- BACKGROUND: It is known that some people can, and do, sustain >1 injury over a playing season. However, there is currently little high-quality epidemiological evidence about the risk of, and relationships between, multiple and subsequent injuries. PURPOSE: To describe the subsequent injuries sustained by Australian Football League (AFL) players over 1 season, including their most common injury diagnoses. STUDY DESIGN: Cohort study; Level of evidence, 3. METHODS: Within-player linked injury data on all date-ordered match-loss injuries sustained by AFL players during 1 full season were obtained. The total number of injuries per player was determined, and in those with >1 injury, the Subsequent Injury Classification (SIC) model was used to code all subsequent injuries based on their Orchard Sports Injury Classification System (OSICS) codes and the dates of injury. RESULTS: There were 860 newly recorded injuries in 543 players; 247 players (45.5%) sustained >/=1 subsequent injuries after an earlier injury, with 317 subsequent injuries (36.9% of all injuries) recorded overall. A subsequent injury generally occurred to a different body region and was therefore superficially unrelated to an index injury. However, 32.2% of all subsequent injuries were related to a previous injury in the same season. Hamstring injuries were the most common subsequent injury. The mean time between injuries decreased with an increasing number of subsequent injuries. CONCLUSION: When relationships between injuries are taken into account, there is a high level of subsequent (and multiple) injuries leading to missed games in an elite athlete group.
- Relation
- The American Journal of Sports Medicine Vol. 45, no. 8 (2017), p. 1921-1927
- Rights
- Copyright © 2017 The Author(s)
- Rights
- This metadata is freely available under a CCO license
- Subject
- 1106 Human Movement and Sports Science; 0903 Biomedical Engineering; 0913 Mechanical Engineering; Subsequent injury; Time to injury; Sports medicine diagnoses; Hamstring injury; Australian football
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