Hand injuries in sports - a retrospective analysis of 364 cases.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Hand injuries are common in sports and associated with high dropout rates and costs. Hence, efforts should strive for further risk prevention measures in order to increase safety in sports. This implies knowledge of sports injury risk profiles. So far, major surveillance programs exist mainly in Anglo-American countries, reflecting the specific concerns of sports in this part of the world. Data on sports injuries within Europe are scarce. As sports behaviour appears to vary demographically, we hypothesised that risk injury profiles differ as well.

Methods

To assess whether the described sports injuries of the hand are applicable to the German population, we performed a five-year retrospective, single-centre analysis of sports-related hand injuries, using data from

SUBMITTER: Stogner VA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7724715 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature