Sex Differences in “Weightlifting” Injuries Presenting to United States Emergency Rooms

Abstract

Benefits of resistance training include improved muscle strength and sports performance, and may include reduced injuries. However, few studies have examined sex differences in resistance training related injuries.

The Incidence and Prevalence of Ankle Sprain Injury: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Prospective Epidemiological Studies

“…Efforts to prevent ankle sprain injury in females should therefore focus on the factors that increase the susceptibility of women to injury and furthermore to develop interventions to facilitate the prevention of these injuries. The anatomical (195)(196)(197), hormonal (197)(198)(199) figure 3) is a significant finding, as injury at a young age can negatively affect a child's ability to participate in activity and may trigger long-term sequelae such as early onset of osteoarthritis (203) (204). None of the included studies surveyed a sample of children, adolescents and adults giving specific data relating to exposure and number of ankle sprains for each distinct age group.…”

Epidemiology of Hospital-Treated Injuries Sustained by Fitness Participants

“…studies of weight-training injuries (Jones et al, 2000;Kerr et al, 2010;Quatman et al, 2009). Some reasons for these results could possibly be to the greater number of male participants (Australian Sports Commission, 2010) the fact that men generally use heavier weights than women as they engage in competition with those exercising around them, and their attitudes to body transformation.…”

“…The majority are from the United States and have varying quality. These studies have mainly focused on aerobics and group exercise classes (Garrick, Gillien, & Whiteside, 1986;Hayes, 1985;Thompson, Case, & Sargent, 2001) or weight training (Jones, Christensen, & Young, 2000;Kerr, Collins, & Comstock, 2010;Quatman, Myer, Khoury, Wall, & Hewett, 2009). There has only been one published peerreviewed study of fitness activity-related injuries in Australia and it focused on aerobics injuries more than 10 years ago (Salmon, Garnham, & Finch, 2000).…”

Resistance training among young athletes: safety, efficacy and injury prevention effects

“…1 Although some clinicians once considered resistance training unsafe and potentially injurious to the developing musculoskeletal system,2 evidence related to the safety and efficacy of resistance exercise for children and adolescents has increased over the past decade 3 4 5 6 7. The qualified acceptance of supervised and well-designed youth resistance training by medical, fitness and sport organisations is now becoming universal 8 9 10 11 12 13…”