The Nordic Football Injury Audit: higher injury rates for professional football clubs with third-generation artificial turf at their home venue
Kristenson K, Bjørneboe J, Waldén M, Andersen TE, Ekstrand J, Hägglund M
British journal of sports medicine · 35 citations
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
- Possibly industry funded
- Company
- Norsk Tipping
- Nonprofit
- International Olympic Committee
- University or hospital
- Norges Idrettshøgskole
- Government
- Helse Sør-Øst RHF
Based on 4 listed funder(s).
Publication
- Published
- 2013-06-12 · Br J Sports Med · vol. 47 · issue 12 · pp. 775–781
- Publisher
- BMJ
- Cited
- 54 citations · more than 95% of similar papers · 4.4× the field average
- Impact
- Top 10% most cited in its field
- References
- 25 works
- Access
- Open access (repository copy)
- Research areas
- Sports injuries and prevention · Cardiovascular Effects of Exercise · Traumatic Brain Injury Research
- Keywords
- Football, Medicine, Injury prevention, Poison control, League, Physical therapy, Club, Occupational safety and health, Football club, Norwegian, Emergency medicine, Geography
- MeSH
- humans, poaceae, athletic injuries, incidence, risk factors, prospective studies, time factors, soccer, floors and floorcoverings, manufactured materials, adult, norway, sweden, male
6 authors
From SE, NO
- Karolina Kristenson · correspondingLinköping University
- John Andreas BjørneboeOslo Sports Trauma Research Center; Norwegian School of Sport Sciences
- Markus WaldénLinköping University
- Thor Einar AndersenOslo Sports Trauma Research Center; Norwegian School of Sport Sciences
- Jan EkstrandLinköping University
- Martin HägglundLinköping University
Abstract
Background
Previously, no difference in acute injury rate has been found when playing football on artificial turf (AT) compared with natural grass (NG).
Aim
To compare acute injury rates in professional football played on AT and NG at the individual player level; and to compare, at club level, acute and overuse injury rates between clubs that have AT at their home venue (AT clubs) and clubs that have NG (NG clubs).
Methods
32 clubs (AT, n=11; NG, n=21) in the male Swedish and Norwegian premier leagues were followed prospectively during the 2010 and 2011 seasons. Injury rate was expressed as the number of time loss injuries/1000 h and compared with rate ratio (RR) and 99% CI.
Results
No statistically significant differences were found in acute injury rates on AT compared with NG during match play (RR 0.98, 99% CI 0.79 to 1.22) or training (RR 1.14, 99% CI 0.86 to 1.50) when analysing at the individual player level. When analysing at the club level, however, AT clubs had a significantly higher acute training injury rate (RR 1.31, 99% CI 1.04 to 1.63) and overuse injury rate (RR 1.38, 99% CI 1.14 to 1.65) compared with NG clubs.
Conclusions
At the individual player level, no significant differences were found in acute injury rates when playing on AT compared with NG. However, clubs with AT at their home venue had higher rates of acute training injuries and overuse injuries compared with clubs that played home matches on NG.
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