Comparison of injuries sustained on artificial turf and grass by male and female elite football players
Ekstrand J, Hägglund M, Fuller CW
Scandinavian journal of medicine & science in sports · 71 citations
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How it was studied
- Design
- Cohort study (indexed by PubMed)
- Studied in
- People
- Main outcome
- Clinical events such as disease or death
Who paid for it
- Funding
- Funding not disclosed
Publication
- Published
- 2010-04-29 · Scand J Med Sci Sports · vol. 21 · issue 6 · pp. 824–832
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Cited
- 139 citations · more than 96% of similar papers · 5.8× the field average
- Impact
- Top 10% most cited in its field
- References
- 33 works
- Access
- Open access (repository copy) · OTHER-OA
- Research areas
- Sports injuries and prevention · Injury Epidemiology and Prevention · Cardiovascular Effects of Exercise
- Keywords
- Medicine, Football, Injury prevention, Poison control, Physical therapy, Incidence (geometry), Occupational safety and health, Relative risk, Demography, Emergency medicine, Internal medicine, Confidence interval
- MeSH
- humans, poaceae, athletic injuries, prospective studies, sex factors, soccer, floors and floorcoverings, adolescent, adult, europe, female, male, young adult
3 authors
From SE, GB
- Jan Ekstrand · correspondingLinköping University
- M. HägglundLinköping University
- Colin W FullerUniversity of Nottingham
Abstract
The objective of this study was to compare incidences and patterns of injury for female and male elite teams when playing football on artificial turf and grass. Twenty teams (15 male, 5 female) playing home matches on third-generation artificial turf were followed prospectively; their injury risk when playing on artificial turf pitches was compared with the risk when playing on grass. Individual exposure, injuries (time loss) and injury severity were recorded by the team medical staff. In total, 2105 injuries were recorded during 246,000 h of exposure to football. Seventy-one percent of the injuries were traumatic and 29% overuse injuries. There were no significant differences in the nature of overuse injuries recorded on artificial turf and grass for either men or women. The incidence (injuries/1000 player-hours) of acute (traumatic) injuries did not differ significantly between artificial turf and grass, for men (match 22.4 v 21.7; RR 1.0 (95% CI 0.9-1.2); training 3.5 v 3.5; RR 1.0 (0.8-1.2)) or women [match 14.9 v 12.5; RR 1.2 (0.8-1.8); training 2.9 v 2.8; RR 1.0 (0.6-1.7)]. During matches, men were less likely to sustain a quadriceps strain (P=0.031) and more likely to sustain an ankle sprain (P=0.040) on artificial turf.
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