- Title
- Injuries in field hockey players : A systematic review
- Creator
- Barboza, Saulo; Joseph, Corey; Nauta, Joske; van Mechelen, Willem; Verhagen, Evert
- Date
- 2018
- Type
- Text; Journal article; Review
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/164473
- Identifier
- vital:13044
- Identifier
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https://doi.org/10.1007/s40279-017-0839-3
- Identifier
- ISBN:0112-1642
- Abstract
- Background: To commence injury prevention efforts, it is necessary to understand the magnitude of the injury problem. No systematic reviews have yet investigated the extent of injuries in field hockey, despite the popularity of the sport worldwide. Objective: Our objective was to describe the rate and severity of injuries in field hockey and investigate their characteristics. Methods: We conducted electronic searches in PubMed, Embase, SPORTDiscus, and CINAHL. Prospective cohort studies were included if they were published in English in a peer-reviewed journal and observed all possible injuries sustained by field hockey players during the period of the study. Results: The risk of bias score of the 22 studies included ranged from three to nine of a possible ten. In total, 12 studies (55%) reported injuries normalized by field hockey exposure. Injury rates ranged from 0.1 injuries (in school-aged players) to 90.9 injuries (in Africa Cup of Nations) per 1000 player-hours and from one injury (in high-school women) to 70 injuries (in under-21 age women) per 1000 player-sessions. Studies used different classifications for injury severity, but—within studies—injuries were included mostly in the less severe category. The lower limbs were most affected, and contusions/hematomas and abrasions were common types of injury. Contact injuries are common, but non-contact injuries are also a cause for concern. Conclusions: Considerable heterogeneity meant it was not possible to draw conclusive findings on the extent of the rate and severity of injuries. Establishing the extent of sports injury is considered the first step towards prevention, so there is a need for a consensus on injury surveillance in field hockey. © 2018, The Author(s).
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing
- Relation
- Sports Medicine Vol. 48, no. 4 (2018), p. 849-866
- Rights
- http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
- Rights
- Copyright © 2018, The Author(s). This article is an open access publication. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made.
- Rights
- Open Access
- Rights
- This metadata is freely available under a CCO license
- Subject
- 0913 Mechanical Engineering; 1106 Human Movement and Sports Science; 1302 Curriculum and Pedagogy; Sport injury; Field hockey; Injury prevention
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