Findings From the Preparticipation Athletic Examination and Athletic Injuries

Basketball Injuries

“…This relationship has been noted in club [23,26,30] and scholastic studies [14,16,32,41,49,68], in the USA [14,16,18,32,41,49,68] and abroad [26,30]. Several studies have found no overall gender difference in injury data [18,19,25] but still noted significant differences in the number of knee injuries between boys and girls [18,19].…”

“…Although the number of cases alone can be informative [13], incidence is considered the gold standard of the measure of risk. A comparison of injury rates from prospective and retrospective research is shown in table 1 and covers high school [14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21], physical education class [22], clubs/sports organizations [23][24][25][26][27], and hospital emergency departments [28,29]. In addition, studies reporting incidence data specifically for knee [18,19,30], ankle [31,32], head [33], and orofacial [34][35][36] injuries are listed.…”

“…Moreover, with the variety of ages in disparate settings (school teams, clubs, physical education classes) across multiple countries, there is little appropriately comparable data. Even the results of the most commonly studied population (American public high school players) vary considerably, from 5.6-36.8 per 100 participants for boys, and 7.8-49 per 100 participants for girls [14][15][16][17]19], although two studies which report injuries per 1,000 hours of participation are similar (3.2-4.0) [17,18]. A coordinated research program with standard protocols is necessary if a clear picture of the level of risk, and associated causal factors, is to emerge.…”

“…Gender Despite the widely varying quality of the literature dealing with injuries in youth basketball, girls are more at risk than boys, particularly for knee and ankle injuries, and these injuries tend to be serious [14,16,18,19,23,26,30,32,41,49,68]. This relationship has been noted in club [23,26,30] and scholastic studies [14,16,32,41,49,68], in the USA [14,16,18,32,41,49,68] and abroad [26,30].…”

“…Specifically, although several high school studies did not find a significant difference in overall injury rates between boys and girls (p ϭ 0.11) [18], IDR ϭ 1.01, 95% CI ϭ 0.95-1.08 [19], there is a gender-related risk (p Ͻ 0.05) [26], (p Ͻ 0.02) [23], (p Ͻ 0.001) [14], (p Ͻ 0.0004) [16]. In addition, although Gutgesell [23] found a similar rate of serious injury between boys and girls, others identified a significant difference in this outcome (p Ͻ 0.05) [19]; (p Ͻ 0.001) [14], with Chandy and Grana [14] noting a significantly greater number of season-ending injuries for girls (p Ͻ 0.001).…”