Temporal trends in incidence of time-loss injuries in four male professional North American sports over 13 seasons.

ABSTRACT: Sports-related injuries increase healthcare cost burden, and in some instances have harmful long term physical and psychological implications. There is currently a lack of comprehensive data on temporal injury trends across professional North American sports. The purpose of this study was to compare temporal trends, according to incidence and time-loss injuries, by body part in professional baseball, basketball, football, and ice hockey. Public injury data from Major League Baseball, National Basketball Association, National Football League, and National Hockey League from 2007 to December 2019 were extracted and used. A mean of 62.49 injuries per 100 players per season was recorded for all professional sports. The groin/hip/thigh reported the greatest season proportional injury incidence

SUBMITTER: Bullock GS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8050171 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature