2017
DOI: 10.1136/bjsports-2017-097530
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Injuries in female and male elite taekwondo athletes: a 10-year prospective, epidemiological study of 1466 injuries sustained during 250 000 training hours

Abstract: In elite South Korean taekwondo athletes, most injuries occur in the lower extremities and were graded as minor. Injury severity depended on weight class.

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“…Previous studies described overall injury rates with an exposure being defined as one training or one competition session. But they did not provide an adjusted exposure risk for training and competition separately [1,5,6,14,[21][22][23]. In a meta-analysis of competition taekwondo injuries, Lystard et al found a wide range of total IIR between 20.5 and 181.8 analyzing nine studies on different subgroups of taekwondo athletes [10].…”
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“…Previous studies described overall injury rates with an exposure being defined as one training or one competition session. But they did not provide an adjusted exposure risk for training and competition separately [1,5,6,14,[21][22][23]. In a meta-analysis of competition taekwondo injuries, Lystard et al found a wide range of total IIR between 20.5 and 181.8 analyzing nine studies on different subgroups of taekwondo athletes [10].…”
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confidence: 99%
“…In a recent study by Park et al the injury patterns associated with elite taekwondo training was analyzed prospectively over a 10-year period [6]. In this regard, most injuries affected the lower extremities (65.5 %).…”
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“…Among the many combat sports, the Korean martial art of Taekwondo (TKD) is a popular sport that is characterized by high speed, high tension, and full-contact combat. It has been estimated that more than eighty million people worldwide participate in this sport [ 8 , 9 , 10 ] with a wide range in the age of the participants in more than 180 countries, especially children and adolescents. It has also been reported that the number of children participating in TKD is increasing globally [ 11 , 12 , 13 ].…”
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