Increase in ACL and PCL injuries after implementation of a new professional football league

Abstract

Prospective controlled cohort study, Level II.

11.361 sports injuries in a 15-year survey of a Level I emergency trauma department reveal different severe injury types in the 6 most common team sports

“…In scientific team sports research injury severity is commonly defined as the time away from sports [18]. This specific classification requires detailed knowledge about an athlete's return to sports and is commonly used in injury analysis in season or tournament settings [8,9]. A continuous followup of patients in the emergency department was not possible in this retrospective survey because Level I emergency trauma departments only provide acute treatment of severe sports injuries, whereas follow-up examinations are mainly organised in an ambulant setting.…”

“…Injury prevention initiatives for team handball [7] and other team sports [2] are also available. Despite these strategies, the proportion of severe injuries in team sports remains still high [3,8,9] and the questions is, how to focus injury prevention strategies in team sports, particularly for severe injuries. The still high occurrence of head injuries and concussion or severe knee injuries like ACL injuries in team sports, shows the need for increasing injury prevention strategies in popular team sports like soccer or team handball and the need for further scientific projects.…”

“…Further research into severe team sports injuries should provide detailed information about the origin and characteristics of such injuries [10,11]. Next to injury reports of team sports seasons or sports tournaments [1,3,8,9], such injury data in sports can also be assessed and investigated by patients data obtained in medical settings [12,13]. Acute injuries are not only treated by family doctors, sports medicine physicians and orthopaedists in an out-patient setting but also at Level I emergency trauma departments.…”

Functional Deficits in the Wrist and Finger Joints of Goalkeepers After 20 Years of Playing Recreational Football

“…These deficits highly influence daily live and work as well as the general satisfactory use of the hands of this study population. The high requirements and the injury prevalence associated with football have been extensively described in the literature but mainly for the joints of the lower extremities [21,22]. In football, long-term negative effects on the joints generally result from posttraumatic stress or degenerative overuse [4 -6].…”

Injuries in Austrian football players: Are they an issue?

“…However, this difference in the total amount of injuries could be explained by regional variations in the playing style of the teams or different injury definitions [21]. Research in the 3 rd professional league and the highest amateur league in Germany showed a match injury incidence of 11.77 injuries/1000 hours and 13.57 injuries/1000 hours and a training injury incidence of 2.2/1000 hours and 2.23/1000 hours, respectively [22], which is comparable to the results of the present study.…”