Open AccessKickball and Its Underappreciated Pediatric Injury Burden: An 18-Year Retrospective Epidemiological Study
Author(s) -
Kevin Pirruccio,
Daniel Weltsch,
Keith D. Baldwin
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
orthopaedic journal of sports medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.329
H-Index - 35
ISSN - 2325-9671
DOI - 10.1177/2325967119835894
Subject(s) - medicine , epidemiology , emergency department , retrospective cohort study , injury prevention , population , pediatrics , occupational safety and health , poison control , ankle , emergency medicine , surgery , environmental health , psychiatry , pathology
Despite kickball's ubiquity as a schoolyard game, its associated injuries remain largely underappreciated. This is particularly unjustified when considering that the annual pediatric injury burden associated with playing kickball surpasses that of other sports acknowledged as carrying a high injury risk, such as martial arts or tennis.
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