Common injuries in athletes' knee: experience of a specialized center

Abstract

OBJECTIVE: The present cross-sectional study aims to identify the most common knee injuries in athletes cared at a Specialized Outpatient Clinics. METHOD: Analysis of patients cared at the Knee Outpatient Clinics of a Sports Trauma Center, divided by gender, age and diagnosed injury. RESULTS: Initially 440 patients were divided into 33 types of sports; after excluding the less statistically significant practices, nine sports remained. The most frequently performed sports were football with almost 50% of total patients presenting anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injury, and road runs with great frequency of meniscal injury. There was no correlation of the disorder with the type of sports performed but a correlation was found with patient's age/gender. CONCLUSION: The complete ACL rupture was the most common injury found in football, basketball and volleyball players, followed by meniscal injury in street runners. Level of Evidence IV, Study Transversal.

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“…Knee injuries occur by overloading of the joint during performance sports or intense physical activities, but also following a fall or a wrong movement (DeHaven & Lintner, 1986;Nicolini et al, 2014); (9). Among the most frequent knee injuries are those of the crossed ligaments, collateral ligaments, articular cartilage and meniscus (Nicolini et al, 2014); (9). The symptoms are pain and reduced mobility, but mostly feeling more or less intensely the knee joint instability (1); (Bianchi, 2013).…”