PURPOSE: Ball sport school injuries account for a significant morbidity among children and adolescents. MATERIALS AND METHODS: During a school year 2234 school sport injuries have been reported to the Gemeinde Unfall Versicherung (GUV) Niedersachsen, Germany. RESULTS: Regarding the non-gender-specific distribution of the ball sport disciplines, basketball leads with 32 % (n = 431), followed by soccer (24 %, n = 316), volleyball (17 %, n = 232), handball (8.3 %, n = 110) and hockey (4.9 %, n = 65). Sprains (27 %) dominate in basketball, followed by ligament distorsions and ruptures (23 %) and fractures (21 %), with frequent finger injuries (61 %) without contact of an opponent, and injuries of the lower extremity (28 %). Soccer leads to contusions (29 %), in 52 % of the lower extremity frequently after collision with an opponent (22 %) or the ball (20 %). In volleyball upper extremity injuries (71 %) dominate with 53 % finger sprains in individual volleyball play. CONCLUSION: Ball school sport injuries account for a significant morbidity with frequent finger injuries. Proprioceptive deficits may play a role in those finger injuries in basketball, volleyball and handball. During hockey, severe dental and facial injuries were apparent. A prospective proprioceptive training program aiming on fingers and the ankle region may therefore be a preventive measure such as helmets with facial protection in hockey school sport.
PURPOSE: Ball sport school injuries account for a significant morbidity among children and adolescents. MATERIALS AND METHODS: During a school year 2234 school sport injuries have been reported to the Gemeinde Unfall Versicherung (GUV) Niedersachsen, Germany. RESULTS: Regarding the non-gender-specific distribution of the ball sport disciplines, basketball leads with 32 % (n = 431), followed by soccer (24 %, n = 316), volleyball (17 %, n = 232), handball (8.3 %, n = 110) and hockey (4.9 %, n = 65). Sprains (27 %) dominate in basketball, followed by ligament distorsions and ruptures (23 %) and fractures (21 %), with frequent finger injuries (61 %) without contact of an opponent, and injuries of the lower extremity (28 %). Soccer leads to contusions (29 %), in 52 % of the lower extremity frequently after collision with an opponent (22 %) or the ball (20 %). In volleyball upper extremity injuries (71 %) dominate with 53 % finger sprains in individual volleyball play. CONCLUSION: Ball school sport injuries account for a significant morbidity with frequent finger injuries. Proprioceptive deficits may play a role in those finger injuries in basketball, volleyball and handball. During hockey, severe dental and facial injuries were apparent. A prospective proprioceptive training program aiming on fingers and the ankle region may therefore be a preventive measure such as helmets with facial protection in hockey school sport.
Authors: M Richter; G Lob; F Pühlhofer; J Siegrist; C Becker; K Dreinhöfer; A Ekkernkamp; M Feldmann; A Fieguth; C Haasper; F Gebhard; A Icks; J Kleinert; K Knobloch; L Lampl; U Liener; S Märzheuser; H J Oestern; G Pistor; W von Renteln-Kruse; J Seifert; M Wildner Journal: Unfallchirurg Date: 2007-09 Impact factor: 1.000
Authors: Johannes Schalamon; Robert Eberl; Herwig Ainoedhofer; Georg Singer; Peter Spitzer; Johannes Mayr; Peter H Schober; Michael E Hoellwarth Journal: Pediatr Surg Int Date: 2007-09 Impact factor: 1.827