Football injuries on synthetic turf fields
Akkaya S, Serinken M, Akkaya N, Türkçüer I, Uyanik E
Eklem hastaliklari ve cerrahisi = Joint diseases & related surgery · 3 citations
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How it was studied
- Design
- Cross-sectional study (classified by our AI screen)
- Studied in
- People
- Main outcome
- Clinical events such as disease or death
Who paid for it
- Funding
- Funding not disclosed
Publication
- Published
- 2011-12-01 · Eklem Hastalik Cerrahisi · vol. 22 · issue 3 · pp. 155–9
- Publisher
- National Institutes of Health
- Cited
- 16 citations · more than 86% of similar papers · 2.2× the field average
- References
- 10 works
- Access
- Paywalled
- Research areas
- Sports injuries and prevention · Foot and Ankle Surgery · Knee injuries and reconstruction techniques
- Keywords
- Medicine, Football, Emergency department, Injury prevention, Football players, Ligament, Poison control, Orthopedic surgery, Surgery, Emergency medicine
- MeSH
- ligaments, articular, humans, athletic injuries, ankle injuries, emergency treatment, retrospective studies, soccer, sports equipment, adolescent, adult, middle aged, emergency service, hospital, turkey, female, male, young adult
5 authors
From TR
- Semih AkkayaPamukkale University
- Mustafa Serınken
- Nuray Akkaya
- İbrahim Türkçüer
- Emrah Uyanık
Abstract
Objectives
Football injuries that occur during football matches played on synthetic fields and the features of these injuries were investigated and the data was pursued for the prevention and reduction of these injuries.
Patients and methods
All adolescent and adult trauma cases who admitted to the Emergency Department with football injuries on synthetic fields were retrospectively investigated. Nine hundred and eighty-five male cases were detected with a mean age of 30.1±4.2 years (range 15-57 years). Age, gender, times of admittance to the Emergency Department, site of injury, type of injury, and clinical result data of the cases were examined.
Results
19:00 to 24:00 hours (n=852, 86.5%) and weekdays were the most frequent admittance times. It was detected that lower-extremities (n=583, 59.2%) were the most commonly affected body parts and the upper-extremity injuries (n=281, 28.6%) and the head and neck injuries (n=75, 7.6%) were the second and third most commonly seen injuries, respectively.The most frequently observed injury types were contusions, abrasions and hematomas in all cases (n=364, 37.0%). Sprains/strains were the second most common types of injuries (n=343, 34.8%). When the final diagnoses of all cases were examined, it was determined that the anterior talofibular ligament injuries were the second most frequent after soft-tissue injuries (n=217, 22%).
Conclusion
Football matches on synthetic fields can lead to serious orthopedic injuries. Investigation of the mechanisms of these injuries, which cause workday and economic losses, will be a guide for the future studies on the prevention of these injuries.
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