Characterization of Rookie Season Injury and Illness and Career Longevity Among National Basketball Association Players.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

There is limited research investigating injury and illness among professional basketball players during their rookie season. By improving the understanding of injury incidence and risk specific to rookie players, sports medicine clinicians may be able to further individualize injury mitigation programs that address the unique needs of rookie players.

Objective

To compare incidence and rate ratio (RR) of injury and illness among professional National Basketball Association (NBA) players in their rookie season with veteran players and to explore the association of sustaining an injury rookie season with career longevity.

Design, setting, and participants

This retrospective cohort study used an online data repository and extracted publicly available data about

SUBMITTER: Martin CL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8491104 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature