Injuries during football tournaments in 45,000 children and adolescents |
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| Authors: | Line Agger Kolstrup Kristian Ugelvig Koopmann Uffe Harboe Nygaard Rie Harboe Nygaard |
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| Institution: | 1. Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care, Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus, Denmark;2. Regional Hospital in Horsens, Horsens, Denmark;3. Department of Clinical Medicine, Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus, Denmark;4. Institute of Sports Medicine, Bispebjerg Hospital, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark |
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| Abstract: | Four percent of the world’s population, or 265 million people, play football, and many players are injured every year. The present study investigated more than 1800 injuries in over 45,000 youth players participating in three consecutive international football tournaments in Denmark in 2012–2014. The aim was to investigate the injury types and locations in children and adolescent football players and the differences between genders and age groups (11–15 and 16–19 years of age). An overall injury rate of 15.3 per 1000 player hours was found. The most common injury location was lower extremities (66.7%), and the most common injury type was contusion (24.4%). Girls had a relative risk of injury of 1.5 compared with boys, p?p?p?
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| Keywords: | Football injuries youth football large cohort |
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