No Increased Injury Risk on Artificial Turf in Finnish Premier Division Football
Immonen V, Kurittu E, Kuitunen I, Vasankari T, Leppänen M
Clinical journal of sport medicine : official journal of the Canadian Academy of Sport Medicine · 1 citation
How it was studied
- Design
- Cohort study (classified by our AI screen)
- Studied in
- People
- Main outcome
- Clinical events such as disease or death
Who paid for it
- Funding
- Possibly industry funded
- Unclassified
- Tays
- Nonprofit
- Tays, Suomen Urheilutukimussäätiö
- Nonprofit
- Suomen Urheilutukimussäätiö
- Grants
- Tays (9X042)
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Publication
- Published
- 2024-11-01 · Clin J Sport Med · vol. 35 · issue 6 · pp. 663–668
- Publisher
- Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
- Cited
- 2 citations · more than 67% of similar papers · 0.7× the field average
- References
- 29 works
- Access
- Open access (hybrid journal) · CC-BY
- Research areas
- Sports injuries and prevention · Traumatic Brain Injury Research · Shoulder Injury and Treatment
- Keywords
- Medicine, Football, Division (mathematics), Injury prevention, Occupational safety and health, Poison control, Medical emergency, Forensic engineering, Engineering, Geography, Archaeology, Pathology
- MeSH
- humans, poaceae, athletic injuries, incidence, retrospective studies, soccer, floors and floorcoverings, adult, finland, male, young adult
5 authors
From FI
- Ville Immonen · correspondingUniversity of Eastern Finland
- Einari KurittuTampere University; Tampere University; Urho Kaleva Kekkonen Institute
- Ilari Kuitunen · correspondingUniversity of Eastern Finland
- Tommi Juhani VasankariTampere University; Tampere University; Urho Kaleva Kekkonen Institute
- Mari LeppänenUrho Kaleva Kekkonen Institute
Abstract
Objective
To compare the injury risk between natural grass and artificial turf in the male Finnish premier division (Veikkausliiga) matches during the 2019 league season.
Design
A retrospective reanalysis of prospectively collected season-long injury surveillance cohort study.
Setting
Finnish elite-level male football.
Participants
All 12 teams of Veikkausliiga participated in the study. All players were eligible to participate. Two hundred thirty-six players took part in the follow-up between February and November 2019.
Interventions
Matches were played between April and November 2019. Injury data were collected using standard injury reports from the team medicals and weekly player questionnaires. Individual player exposure in matches was collected. Artificial turf was classified as exposure and natural grass as control in the analyses.
Main outcome measures
Match-related injury incidence and incidence rate ratios (IRR) with 95% confidence intervals (CI) on natural grass and artificial turf.
Results
A total of 113 injuries (65 on artificial turf, 48 on natural grass) in 167 matches (90 on artificial turf, 77 on natural grass) were included. Injury incidence was 27.2/1000 hours on artificial turf and 23.9/1000 hours on natural grass and (IRR, 1.1; 95% CI, 0.8-1.7). There was no difference in injury types, anatomical regions, injury recurrence, injury severity, or injury contact. Forwards may have had an increased injury incidence on artificial turf compared with natural grass (IRR, 3.4; 95% CI, 1.0-11.8).
Conclusions
This study supports previous reports that there is no significant increase in the overall risk of injury in professional football played on artificial turf compared with that on natural grass.
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